How to change Photoshop CS6 language to English

In this tutorial, I will show how to change Photoshop CS6 language to English. Adobe Photoshop CS6 provide some languages for user. In last post “How to install Photoshop CS6 trial version“. If you download Photoshop CS6 trial version in the Adobe website. You have many choice for using language you want.

Now, Adobe Photoshop CS6 have some packed languages : English—International, English — Universal, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, French — Canada, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese — Brazil, Spanish, Spanish—Latin America, Spanish — North America, Swedish, Czech, French — North Africa, Hungarian, Middle Eastern English Arabic, Middle Eastern English Hebrew, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean.

Example : If you want to use English language, but your photoshop is Swedish language. How to change Photoshop cs6 Swedish to English language ? Of courese, you don’t have to reinstall Photoshop CS6. My Photoshop CS6 have 2 languages : English and Swedish. I’m using Swedish language as default. I’ll change form Swedish to English for this tutorial. You can also practice for another languages.

Now, We go to main subject. How to change Photoshop CS6 language to English ?

Step 1 : Close Photoshop sofware (Important)

Step 2 : I go to Edit > Preferences > Interface

Interface in Photoshop CS6

Interface in Photoshop CS6

You will see that have only 1 language. How to change that ?

Language box in Photoshop CS6

Language box in Photoshop CS6

Step 3: Go to My Computer > C dirver > Program files > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop CS6 > Locales > en_US >Support Files.

You rename tw10428.dat to tw10428.dat.old. New dialog box is opened, you click yes

change tw10428.dat file in photoshop cs6

Change tw10428.dat file in Photoshop CS6

You’ll need to provide Administrator permmision to rename this file. Click continued

change language file

change language file

change photoshop language in photoshop cs6

Change Photoshop language in Photoshop CS6

Step 4: Open Photoshop CS6, You will see language is changed

english language in photoshop cs6

English language in Photoshop CS6

Thanks for your reading !

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  1. John

    Bro u rock it’s amazing i thought it’s not gonna be changed thanks man ! 🙂

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  2. Stefania

    Thanks a lot! 🙂

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  3. S. Kishor

    You are awesome mam. Solved my problem within 2 mins.
    Fabulous trick.

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  4. Natanael

    I tried to change the language but my Photoshop only has one “pt-BR” folder ie, I d’not have folders of other languages. What do I do?
    (if you can leave a link where I can donwload the folder)

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  5. Tho Tran Post author

    What language are you using ?

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  6. Tom

    You Rock Brother.
    My language problem got solved instantly.

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  7. Nick

    “pt-BR” is probably Brazilian-Portuguese.
    To change from Portuguese to English:
    “Go to My Computer > C dirver > Program files > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop CS6 > Locales > pt_BR >Support Files.
    You rename tw10428.dat to tw10428.dat.old. New dialog box is opened, you click yes”

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  8. Natanael

    By the way, do you know who to change the language of illustrator? :p

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  9. Filip

    Hello,
    I’m using PS6 on my macbook and there is only english language, but I want czech.
    It’s possible to change it or no?

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  10. Can Elvan

    Really amazing!
    Nick’s advise on Tho Tran’s questions worked so good for my case from Turkish to English. Thank you..

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  11. Angela

    This is so awesome!! thank you so much!!

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  12. Atif Abbasi

    HELO! THO Tran

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  13. Waqas

    I just singed in to say THANKS BRO >>> :*

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  14. Bucentauro

    Yes it works for Mac too, just rename the file tw10428.dat to tw10428.dat.old.

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  15. Nice one!

    This is awesome! thanks! ^~^

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  16. Josephsilvestre.t

    I don’t find en_us so is that possible to download those files alone. please help me out. thank you.

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  17. Adnan Khan

    Absolutely great !! Superb & magical way seems !! Overal Thanks 2 u !!

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  18. Bobby

    Thankyou so much ..
    🙂

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  19. Manjunath Reddy

    Thank you so much.. its worked

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  20. Ganche/Serbia

    Quick but wonderfully efficient trick. Many thanks and god bless.

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  21. Sylvie scheffers

    Hi,
    This looks really fantastic!
    But I have to change mine from English into Dutch “Nederlands”
    Any suggestions?

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  22. Nader

    Amazing thank u

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  23. Sylvie

    Hi,
    Can I also change it from English into Dutch?
    Thanks!

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  24. Sanjay ES

    Thank u very much…. u rock

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  25. Md Aziz

    Thanks…. great trick

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  26. Haris Khan

    Nice! Thank You Admin 😉

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  27. Alex Rey

    If possible, How can I change the language from english to spanish?

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  28. Rahul india

    Amazing idea…. thanks a lot

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  29. Masresha

    Thank you help me to much keep up

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  30. Kumar

    Good job

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  31. Vivek

    IT works ..thanks

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  32. RaulMuroc

    Beautiful solution. Easy and works like a charm!

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  33. Muhammad Umair

    Still some in that language but this is amazing love your work 🙂

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  34. Shams

    The most helpful thanx i love your articl this most thank..

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  35. Razwoan

    Thanks it worked. (Y)

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  36. Mcben

    Thank yu so much… mine worked…
    i was doubting it in th first place since i did not have the english folder…
    i want to learn photoshop .. i love it…
    thank you once again

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  37. Lotfi

    What about cs6 on mac osx, it s in german and i want it in french

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  38. Bhei

    Like

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  39. Tho Tran Post author

    You should buy serial number. I can’t share my serial number.

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  40. Avan

    WOW man that was aweson! can you please provide my serial number? pl help me out

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  41. Rock Callahan

    Thank you it works fully

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  42. Keavin X-One

    OhHHhhh……………Thanks a lot man I LOVE YOU <3

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  43. Nethi

    I changed once and i used it…bt agin it changed to the originial language…nd im nt able to revert it to english!!!wht i shld do to change my cs6 language to english????

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  44. Sreespas

    Bro …She aint a bro its SHe , SHe IS ‘She”

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  45. So greatful

    Scoring you 100% on this. Cheers

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  46. Richman

    It only shows the nl_NL folder and there’s no en_US folder what should now?

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  47. Luna

    Omg thank you so much it worked!

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  48. Alvir Loyola

    Didn’t work at me

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  49. Alvir Loyola

    Can anyone can help me ?

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  50. Beparvah

    Bro, u rockss,

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  51. Bhushan bhai

    Great,
    it’s work
    thanks

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  52. Adobe Photoshop

    You can also rename the file from tw10428.dat to tw10428.dak and it will work!

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  53. Josh

    How about japanese cs4 to english, does this work for cs4 too?

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  54. MIA

    Thanks, great tutorial!

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  55. AE

    *Changed

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  56. AE

    OMG! Thank you Hyon Kim it worked. Thank you very much. I canged from danish to english. Really appreciate it, that you shared this amazing knowledge. God bless you. :p

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  57. John Heath

    The best and most straighforward tutorial I have ever followed. It worked perfectly. Thanks a million!
    John Heath

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  58. Viki

    It didn’t work for me. I followed the steps very carefully, but no avail.

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  59. Hyon Kim Post author

    You use Windown or OSX ( Macbook) ?

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  60. Hyon Kim Post author

    Thanks for comment !

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  61. Azamcse

    Thanks a lot

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  62. Hyon Kim Post author

    You are welcome

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  63. Sanha

    THANKYOU SO MUCH YOU LIFE SAVER

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  64. Anshumaan Bag

    Thanks … It really worked… thanks a lot…

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  65. Admin PhotoshopTip Post author

    No problem. Hihi :p

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  66. Admin PhotoshopTip Post author

    Thanks. I will work harder

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  67. Admin PhotoshopTip Post author

    Thanks for comment

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  68. Mikael Kindt

    Hej! Thanks for the tip. Is there any possibility two get both Swedish and English show up in settings? So I can change back and forth? Vänliga hälsningar Mikael

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  69. COOLIO

    STILL RELEVANT. STAY UP FAM GOOD SHIT

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  70. Asif

    Thanks

    Reply
  71. Arunraj

    It was really awesome mam.
    hats off uuuuu
    love uu

    Reply
  72. Admin PhotoshopTip Post author

    Thank you !!!

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  73. Vishnu

    You are just amazing.. Thank you soooooo much…

    Reply
  74. Admin PhotoshopTip Post author

    Thank you !

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  75. Obaid Akhter

    Thank You For this amazing help you are such a good person on internet i ever find because 99% people write fake answer for this post

    Reply
  76. Gladz

    Thank You So Much! Had a hard time changin the language, thanks to ur tutorial…

    Reply
  77. Ryan

    Can you give me where should i Download free photoshop cs6 because i need to do a job that use photoshop. please… thanks

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  78. Ryan

    I can’t find tw10428.dat. even in program files i can’t find the photoshopcs6.. what should i do?

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  79. Illume fotografo

    Thanks, it worked

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  80. Ali

    I solved my problem welldone

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  81. John

    Thank you for your great tip! It worked like a charm!

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  82. Pratyush Ranjan

    I have a better solution.

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  83. A

    I love you so much right now, thank you!!

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  84. Mac

    You Rock.

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  85. Gayan

    Loads of thanks bro it worked !!!

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  86. Kokine26

    Thank you so so so much. It worked perfectly in less then 2 min. But you may tell that when you change the file name your computer may or may not ask you provide administrator permission. When I change the file name my computer did not ask me to provide administrator password. Don’t know why but it didn’t. I just changed the name and voila my photoshop is now in english. I am so happy loads and loads of thanks to you!!

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  87. Allen

    Thank you so much Hanna

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  88. Kewuie Iyhrwe

    Mine says resource needed to load this language because mine only comes in chinese

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  89. Shaban ali

    Very very thanks to solve my problem I am really glad to you

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  90. Joel

    By the way the programme is in Deutsch (German)

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  91. Joel

    Hallo Hanna, i am using Adobe Photoshop CS Imageready, looks like an old version and being trying to change the language following your post but has not been successful. To begin with the locales folder contains only one file en-US.bak. Also there are two Locales folders, one is .UNE and the other is .bak. There is one Resource folder but does not contain the locale folder. I have tried a few of the .dat files but still the same. Any ideas.

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  92. Hamza

    Thank you very much

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  93. Nishie Nish

    I am just soooooo thankful, I have been stuck with this extended version for so long thinking it was not possible to change the language, thank you so much,

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  94. Aamir

    Nott work plzz help

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  95. Kurfa

    I was almost to uninstall it before I came to this page.
    Thank you it worked perfectly for me. u r cute

    Reply
  96. Rara

    Wow. I felt like a cool little Hacker person doing that.
    Thank you!!!!

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  97. Ahsan

    Thank you so much sir 🙂 ism really thankh ful to you for this post 🙂

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  98. Amit

    Oh so cool I change PS6 Chinese to English. Love you Hanna Kim you are great.

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  99. Wahyu

    Thanks Bro :p

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  100. Hani

    Hello Tho. very nice tutorial hank you i worked on my Photoshop. i will share your tutorial so my friends will get a benefit from that

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  101. Sonia

    Wonderful and so easy!

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  102. Brijendra

    You are awesome :=))))
    In my case it changed from “don’t know what?” to english..
    THANK YOU..

    Reply
  103. SuperDuper

    This is sooo amazing!! Thankyou very much solved my problem in 1 min I was trying to download language packs online. But this is awesome!!!! Thankyou!

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  104. SuperDuper

    This is amazing! Solved my problem in minutes. I was trying to download language packs online. Awesome work!! Thank you!

    Reply
  105. Rahul Chauhan

    It worked .. thanks alot….mmmuuuaaah .

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  106. Jay

    Thank you sooooo much!!!

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  107. Dan Berglin

    I’m Swedish and I have one choice: Swedish 😐

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  108. Jibin

    Can u tell me how to zoom pic with shortcuc
    ????

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  109. Hola@gmail.com

    BUENISIMO HERMANO GRACIAS!

    Reply
  110. Muna

    Wonderful thank you

    Reply
  111. Auroracchi

    Thank you! Its work!

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  112. Ak

    Thanks man…. It worked for me. 🙂

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  113. Elizer

    Hello mam its not working for me after i changed the leter tw10428.dat to tw10428.dat.old it show me nothing no respond from it how can i change it then

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  114. Brahimax

    Ty kissss

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  115. Mil

    Its work! thank you :-*

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  116. Hazran

    Hi Hanna, I found this article useful especially for my clients who run my Photoshop cover action mockups even though it was written years back, and share this page link from my website under F.A.Q page. I hope you don’t mind.

    Reply
  117. Jamie

    Thanks for comment! <3

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  118. Ddhee Jah

    Wow, mine was perfect

    Reply
  119. Fotosjopper

    Thanks, this works for Dutch also!

    Reply
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  121. Balaji

    Thanks a lot bro, nice its working

    Reply
  122. Jason

    I think you reversed step 1 and 2. I mean if you close photoshop, you can’t check the preferences.

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  123. Med

    This is a video explain how to change language to english

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  124. Mikey

    Thanks!

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  125. Jerish Solomon

    Thanks with love from India

    Reply
  126. Tipacin

    Thank you so much!!

    Reply