Photoshop in Linux

[stupidkid]

Is it possible to get Photoshop CS2 to work in Linux? I get quite a few errors when I try to use Wine.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Just use GIMP.

 

[xtknight]

Yeah, I've run CS2 under wine in Linux fine after modifying a registry key (using wine regedit) regarding memory usage.

 

[stupidkid]

What exactly am I suppose to edit? Thanks.

 

[drag]

Nope. You can use "Crossover Office" (commercial Wine from CodeWeavers) to run older versions of Photoshop in Linux, but you can't do either CS release. You may be able to get non-CS releases working with Wine, but I am less sure of that.

If you want to do this stuff in Linux you have to use either free software program like Gimp or use a native commercial product, of which there is several that also I don't know much about.

For instance you have:
Gimp, which is dogged by many, but is usefull for computer graphics and photo editing. You can use your window manager features to make it easier to use (like for instance having the toolbar and dialog set to 'top' layer). Also you can do things like use your virtual desktop to house all your dialogs on one screen, but have your toolbar and image on another.
Then there is Krita from Koffice product suite (KDE Office). It has many advanced features such as HDR support and such. It's designed to be more of a 'Painting' program rather then a photo/bitmap editing program.

Then there is Cinepaint, which is specificly designed for motion picture film image editing and touch up. Supports the ultra-high color depths needed for that sort of thing. (32bit per channel RGBA and such)

Then there is Gimpshop, which is Gimp with it's theme hacked to more closely resemble photoshop.

There are plugins you can find that will allow you to run photoshop plugins in Gimp using Wine.

Then for a commercial propriatory software (shareware with unlimited trial) there is the Pixel image editor which is very photoshop like in it's look.. Although I haven't tried it yet.

 

[imported_LoKe]

I'll have to look into Gimpshop. While we're on the topic...is there any way to make Gimps' toolbars all stay in the same damn window?

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Yeah, I've run CS2 under wine in Linux fine after modifying a registry key (using wine regedit) regarding memory usage.

Oh. I thought you couldn't do that.

here is more information for OP..
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2631&iTestingId=2899

You can find any reports on how well applications works for wine by the wine app database.

 

[P0ldy]

Originally posted by: LoKe
I'll have to look into Gimpshop. While we're on the topic...is there any way to make Gimps' toolbars all stay in the same damn window?

Define "toolbars". You mean the layers/history dialogs? You can mix and match those just like Photoshop. Photoshop on Mac has the same multi-window layout as the Gimp does. IMO the one-window-to-rule-them-all approach of Photoshop on Windows sucks.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: P0ldy

Originally posted by: LoKe
I'll have to look into Gimpshop. While we're on the topic...is there any way to make Gimps' toolbars all stay in the same damn window?

Define "toolbars". You mean the layers/history dialogs? You can mix and match those just like Photoshop. Photoshop on Mac has the same multi-window layout as the Gimp does. IMO the one-window-to-rule-them-all approach of Photoshop on Windows sucks.

I don't like having to alt+tab to find my tools. I guess that's a symptom of using Photoshop for so long.

 

[P0ldy]

If you learn the shortcuts (or configure them to your liking -- you can mimic Photoshop's if you want) then there's no need to alt-tab -- in your image window, pressing Shift+E will get you your eraser, just like in PS.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: P0ldy

Originally posted by: LoKe
I'll have to look into Gimpshop. While we're on the topic...is there any way to make Gimps' toolbars all stay in the same damn window?

Define "toolbars". You mean the layers/history dialogs? You can mix and match those just like Photoshop. Photoshop on Mac has the same multi-window layout as the Gimp does. IMO the one-window-to-rule-them-all approach of Photoshop on Windows sucks.

I don't like having to alt+tab to find my tools. I guess that's a symptom of using Photoshop for so long.

Depends on you window manager, of course. Most of them support some variation.

In Metacity on Gnome at the tool bar at the top of any window, right click the empty space/title space and select 'On Top'. That way that window will always be on top.

Personally I use that when editing, but when scetching/drawing I prefer to have Gimp in fullscreen mode. In the file menu on the tools dialog box in the preferences somewere you can configure how Gimp behaves in different modes. (for instance you can eliminate the menu bar in regular mode, or show selection 'dancing ants' in full screen mode)

Also I like the 'tiny' theme so that the toolbars and dialogs don't take up so much room.

Realy, I beleive the nested MDI for Windows photoshop is realy designed to work around Window's lousy window handling capabilities. On OS X it doesn't use that. In Linux it's pretty easy to replicate the Window's photoshop window handling methods by sending the windows to different layers and giving it it's own virtual desktop.

edit:
I also like using Gimp's ability to have multiple windows of the same image open.. So you can do stuff like have one window realy zoomed in and the other zoomed out so you can see how your affecting the overal thing.

 

[P0ldy]

Originally posted by: drag
Also I like the 'tiny' theme so that the toolbars and dialogs don't take up so much room.

Where can you find different themes?

 

[drag]

I donno. The tiny theme is aviable by default, at least on Debian. (could be 'small' or something like that, I am not at home right now)

Theme'ing is one of those things that Gimp developers spent a lot of time on that most people didn't notice. Make the interface more flexible for things like 'Gimpshop' and especially internationalization support.

I don't think there are any other themes like that.

edit:
Here is were it's mentioned in the Gimp manual. http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-prefs-dialog.html#id3287550

I guess it was 'small'.

I don't know if there is other themes though. It's certainly possible.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: drag
I donno. The tiny theme is aviable by default, at least on Debian. (could be 'small' or something like that, I am not at home right now)

Theme'ing is one of those things that Gimp developers spent a lot of time on that most people didn't notice. Make the interface more flexible for things like 'Gimpshop' and especially internationalization support.

I don't think there are any other themes like that.

File -> Preferences. Theme. Small theme. =]

 

[P0ldy]

Ah. I never dug around in there.