Does Linux have the program equivalents to photoshop, illustrator, and premiere pro?

[Mik3y]

Does Linux have the program equivalents to photoshop, illustrator, and premiere pro? I'd like to try out my mandrake 10.1, but i'm curious as to if there are programs like the ones i mentioned, and i'm not talking about wine emulators.

 

[tfinch2]

the gimp for photoshop...you can use it in windows too

 

[wallsfd949]

Cinelerra

 

[igowerf]

http://www.sodipodi.com/ is a vector drawing program. Take a look in my freeware thread linked in my sig. I have a bunch of open source programs listed that are available for both Windows and Linux.

 

[notfred]

no, it doesn't.

 

[randumb]

There's no professional quality equivalents. However, there are imitations like the GIMP for Photoshop.

 

[drag]

Gimp = Image manipulation.
Inkscape/Sodipodi = vector image creation.
Scibus = Desktop layout and publishing.
Cinerella = hardcore professional video editing (not fun to use), Kino = normal video editing.
Blender = free 3d editing software, Maya = commercial 3d software

Some people like to compare Gimp vs Photoshop and stuff like that. whatever, each program has it's purposes and photoshop is one the programs held in highest esteem by a lot of people. Of course it's not nearly as great as people like to assume it is, most of them simply don't know what they are talking about. Gimp is a nice program and allows you to do everything that you can do in Photoshop, although the user interface isn't as nice.

Once you get used to it, Gimp is a pleasurable program to use.

A variation of Gimp is Cinepaint (formally known as Film Gimp) and it was created by people who needed a editor for film. It mostly has to do with what is knows as color depth. Printed paper and photos generally don't need more then 8bit per pixel color depth (24bit color, or 32bit "color" when you add 8 bits for a alpha channels which is what Windows "32bit" color depth means). This isn't because standards are low, but it's because they deal with reflected light (and the CRT tubes aren't that great and LCD is worse) and no matter what technology you throw at them you are never going to get past those limitations. However film (movies, not photograph.) has much more color/light depth so Film Gimp supports full 32bit color.

edit:
Actually I am mistaken. Cinepaint will support 32bits PER channel.
Up to 128bit color (RGBA)

It's used by studios like Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks, DreamWorks, ILM. Used in movies:
like 2 fast 2 furious, Stuirt little and others.

Hell if you go into the extended DVD version of Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, they show images of a developer working on a KDE desktop. pic

IIRC they used Cinepaint to draw in the arrows flying around in a few scenes in the Lord of the Rings stuff (at least in the later movies)

Of course most those studios use Linux quite a bit nowadays, having displaced much of the old school Unix stuff they used in the past. Lots of custom apps, tools, programmers and stuff like that. So it's not a big supprise they use Linux for much stuff (and windows of course). Lot of it is clusters compiling 3-d stuff. Most of the CGI stuff in the Lord of the Rings (and other movies) were rendered on Linux clusters. Which of course, you and I don't get to play around on any of that stuff.

Of course for most consumer/prosumer stuff it's going to be Macs first, Windows second, and Linux dead last in terms of software.

Inkscape/Sodipodi aren't as mature as Adobe app's are and it's shows. But again they will get done what is need to be done with little fuss.

And many others besides that.
http://www.linuxartist.com/

For sound and music editing and creation there is a bit more to choose from. You have all sorts of stuff, like Ardour is a good example of a high quality linux audio app.
http://ardour.org/
http://sound.condorow.net/
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/index.php3

Among others.

IMHO Linux and free open source software art stuff isn't up to the big commercial stuff's quality and capabilities that you can get if you have enough money, but it's hell of a lot better then most free stuff you get thru normal Windows channels.

Unless you warez your stuff, then it's all free.

no, it doesn't.

Spoken like a true nerf.

 

[Rottie]

If he has some money but I don't know if programs like Shake 2.0 and Matador 64 will run on Linux?

 

[Staples]

Gimp is the only good open source productivity app (still a lot less than powerful that PS).

You get what you pay for.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Staples
Gimp is the only good open source productivity app (still a lot less than powerful that PS).

Realy, would you kindly give me some examples of what is so much better about Photoshop that makes it so powerfull?

Aside from user interface awkwardness and the lack of cmyk color support, which is only usefull if you do desktop publishing.

You get what you pay for.

My guess is that you have very little clue what your talking about and are just regurgitating what you've heard others complain about.

edit:

Btw, if you realy need the features and capabilities that Photoshop offers over Gimp, then check out wine.

It'll run Photoshop 7.0 almost perfectly... may take some work to get it working though.

here is a good website

He has howtos on:
AutoCad R14
Dreamweaver MX
Flash MX
IE 6.0 SP1
MS Office 2000
Nero Burning Rom 6.0.0.9
Paintshop Pro 8
Photoshop 7.0
Diablo 2
Grand theft auto:vice city
Jedi knight 2: Jedi outcast
Half-life
Simcity 4
Soldier of fortun 2
Starcraft
Warcraft 3.

also here is a database documenting the various different Windows applications and their compatability with Wine + Linux.