How to get Photoshop on a Mac Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for image editing. Here's how to get it on Mac | 12 Apr 21 Apple's free Mac apps: Photos and Preview can get the basics of touching up an image or photograph, but if you want to do anything more advanced you'll need a dedicated image editing app. Adobe's Photoshop is the industry standard, due to its wide range of features and capabilities. Here's how to get a copy of Photoshop on your Mac, or, failing that, the next best thing. How to get Photoshop free on a Mac A lot of people will be wondering if there is a way to get Photoshop for free on a Mac. First a warning: if you find Photoshop on a file sharing site don't download it. First of all, it's very unlikely to be a legitimate version of the app because of the way that Adobe distributes is, and second, it will almost definitely cause you problems - this is how viruses spread.