For information running Adobe Products under wine:

• See Wine AppDB entries for Adobe Product

Open bugs related to Adobe Products:

• Bugs with Adobe in subject line

Wine AppDB entry:

• Photoshop

• Photoshop Elements

(These notes below should be in the Wine AppDB, but are not all yet. )

Running Adobe Photoshop on Wine

Photoshop 5 through CS2 install and work pretty well on wine! Here are some tips you'll need to run Photoshop successfully:

• You shouldn't have to copy Photoshop from Windows; just install it under Wine by running its Setup.exe. (To run a .exe under wine, you have to doubleclick it, right click and choose "Run with Wine", or run it from the commandline using the 'wine' command, depending on how your Linux distribution integrates Wine.)
• Never use a cracked version of Photoshop.
• Never run Wine as root.
• Use a recent version of Wine (0.9.54 or later).

• Before installing Photoshop, do 'wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks; sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6'

• The Clone tool uses the ALT key in a way that conflicts with many window managers. Here's how to fix that:
  • Ubuntu or Fedora: Go to System → Preferences → Windows, and under Movement Key, pick "Super" instead of "Alt".
  • Kubuntu: Go to the K Menu → System Settings → Look and Feel → Windows, and under Movement Key, pick "Super" instead of "Alt".
  • Suse with GNOME: Go to Computer → Control Center → Look and Feel → Windows, and under Movement Key, pick "Super" instead of "Alt".

  • Suse with KDE: Go to the Gecko menu → Favorites → Configure Desktop → Desktop → Window behavior → Window Actions → "Inner Window, Titlebar & Frame", and pick "Meta" instead of "Alt".

• If you have a keyboard with the AltGr key (not many US keyboards have this): duplicating Marquee selections with AltGr+Arrows didn't work, you have to use Ctrl+Alt+Arrows instead

• compiz plugins might also steal important keystrokes (Ctrl+Arrows, Shift+Arrows, Shift+Ctrl+Arrows, Ctrl+Alt+Arrows) used by Photoshop for moving, cuting und duplicating Marquee selections. For instance, see RotateCube. You might need to disable Compiz or those plugins to use Photoshop properly.

• Some UI elements might use a too-small font. In CS2, you can fix this with Edit / Preferences / General, and change UI Font Size from Small to Medium.

Please report any problems you run into. (You can report them to the forum, to the appdb, to bugzilla, or even on your own blog; we're listening everywhere.)

Known Issues

With wine-0.9.58, Photoshop CS2 works really well, so don't be scared by this list of issues! (Photoshop CS3 doesn't work yet, though.)

CS3 install:

• 7829 Photoshop CS3 install / Adobe Setup fails at runtime

• 8945 Adobe Indesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, and Flash CS3 fail to install

Crashes:

• 12150 Photoshop 6 and 7 crash when selecting many files

Transparancy:

• 10091 Transparent images have black backgrounds with Compiz

• 11292 Splash and About windows of Adobe Photoshop 7,CS,CS2 transparancy not dynamic

Z-order:

• 11412 Adobe Photoshop CS2: splash screen z-order problem

• 11431 Adobe Photoshop CS2: z-overlay of image containers

• 12127 Adobe Photoshop, Kai Power Tools: black screen in front of everything

Multi-monitor support:

• 12599 Photoshop CS2 image windows don't paint fully if you have two monitors with unequal resolutions

Bizarre but reproduced by one user:

• 12449 Adobe Photoshop CS2: window parts hidden when opening multiple images

Cosmetic but still worth fixing:

• 11252 Adobe Photoshop CS2 window repaint cosmetic problem

• 11294 Adobe Imageready 3 and 6 (part of Photoshop 6 and 7) and InDesign 2 tool option window in wrong place

• 11679 BW Styler Plugin for Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 ugly cosmetic problem

Updaters:

• 11293 Adobe Imageready 7 (part of Photoshop 7) update squirrly

• 11251 Adobe Photoshop CS2 update process funky

Tablet related bugs:

• 11699 Acecad tablet not recognised as a tablet

• 11846 tablet pressure sensitivity not working in Sai and many other key graphic applications

• 11943 Wacom Tablet Y-axe gets inverted on click

• 11838 Y axis inverted in tablet with OpenCanvas 1.1?

• 12005 Regression in pressure sensitivity with wizardpen tablet driver and Photoshop 7

Photoshop Elements:

• Photoshop Elements 4 and 5 won't work unless you install Microsoft's ODBC (e.g. using winetricks mdac28). One user recommends doing 'wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks; sh winetricks fakeie6 mdac28 jet40' before installing.

• Photoshop Elements 6 currently doesn't work because the installer doesn't create manifests for MSVCRT assemblies.

See bugs.winehq.org's list of photoshop bugs

Links

Adobe mentions of Wine and Photoshop:

• "Wine offers improved Photoshop-on-Linux support", John Nack, Adobe, 8 Feb 2008

Where to download Adobe Photoshop trials (let's be very conservative -- only adobe.com or trusted US download sites):

• PS 5.5: ftp://ftp1.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/photoshop/win/5.x/ps55try.exe

• PS 6: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/win/6.x/AdobePS6Tryout.exe

• PS 7: http://www.fileplanet.com/59113/50000/fileinfo/Adobe-Photoshop-7.0-Trial---Win32

• PS CS1: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/photoshop/win/8.x/AdobePhotoshopCS.zip

• PS CS2: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/win/cs2/Photoshop_CS2.exe

• PS CS3: http://www.adobe.com/go/tryphotoshop

• PSE 2: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshopelements/win/1.x/pse2trial.exe (not a typo, it's really in the wrong directory?)

• PSE 3: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshopelements/win/3.x/PSE3_UE_WinTrial.zip

• PSE 4: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshopelements/win/4.x/PSE_40_WWE_TRYBUY.zip

• PSE 5: http://trials.adobe.com/pub/esd/trial/pse5/PSE_5.0_WIN_TRYBUY_ENG.exe

• PSE 6: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?loc=en&product=photoshop%5Felements

Pages with tips on running Photoshop on Wine (most of which will need radical simplification once Photoshop works easily on Wine):

• http://gentoo-wiki.com/Photoshop

• http://www.peterkroener.de/2007/11/15/liebe-juenger-des-heiligen-steve-und-sklaven-des-maechtigen-bill/ (CS; funny; German)

• http://tuxpepino.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/instalar-dreamweaver-y-photoshop-en-ubuntu/ (Spanish; covers Dreamweaver, too; video)

Automating Photoshop (might be useful for regression tests):

• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop/scripting/ (Photoshop Developer Center: Photoshop Scripting)

• http://user.fundy.net/morris/?photoshop21.shtml (one particular Action tutorial)

• http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/Automation/1 (links to many tutorials)

• http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=289 (extensive training videos)

• http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/AutomatePhotoshop.asp (Controlling Photoshop via COM from VB)

• http://www.pcpix.com/Photoshop/ (Controlling Photoshop via COM from C#)

• http://www.rags-int-inc.com/PhotoTechStuff/PscsScripts/ (Controlling Photoshop with Javascript)

• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop/sdk/ (registration required. SDK was also shipped for free on the CD-ROM in Photoshop 4, 5, and 6. Access was restricted later to make it harder for competing apps, e.g. the gimp, to accept photoshop plugins.)

Free Alternatives

• Gimp, Gimpshop, Cinepaint, Krita
• There is also a non-free Linux alternative, called Pixel.

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