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Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the useful-hacks dept.

miladus writes "eWeek reports that Walt Disney's feature animation unit (along with 2 other unnamed studios) are using Adobe's Photoshop in Linux. They use the Wine emulator to run the software and the 3 studios 'not known as team players, all three agreed that a project that would benefit the entire open-source community while delivering a technology they needed--was worth their cooperation'."

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  1. Re:Disney supporting open-source? by Pope+Raymond+Lama · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. Disney non-supporting Open Source,
    as it has always been.

    Now, instead of using, and helping
    improving The GIMP, "linux people"
    will just run their pirated Photoshops
    and be happy, as oftenly such users
    do not know the difference between free
    and proprietary software.

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  2. Re:Also ... by gowen · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Which means it's not a Linux application, it's a Windows application that runs in an emulator. So what?
    It means the emulator is getting better and better, so theres a good chance that more and more apps will work with it, which decreases MS's competitive advantage. And decreasing the competitive advantage of a monopolist is good for the market.
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  3. Photoshop is a killer ap. by Prince_Ali · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but Linux needs photoshop. That is one of those programs that some people actually earn their living using. The GIMP is nothing compared to photoshop. It may work for amateurs, but even people who use it as a major hobby could not get the same results with GIMP.

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  4. Applications applications applications by pubjames · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Getting popular applications like this running on Linux is the single most important thing to get Linux on the desktop.

    Note that Adobe could probably release a native version of Photoshop to run on Linux fairly easily. They had a Unix version, and also of course it will run on OSX, so going native to Linux can't be that big an issue.

    Everyone who wants to see Linux on the desktop should be pestering the companies of the software they use to release a Linux version. For me, the important one is Macromedia Flash, so I've been emailing Macromedia asking when they are going to port it. If you want to see Linux on the desktop, start pestering!

  5. Old Timer by blinder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been using Photoshop since the 2.5 days (pre layers -- when real men [and women] used alpha channels) on Macs. I then switched over to using pshop on the PC because, well, I couldn't afford a mac!

    But then, something strange happened. I had been using Linux (Redhat) as my OS-of-choice at home and would switch to my laptop (running 2k) to do Photoshop work. Out of the desire to use my mouse, I went and sunk a few bucks and bought the crossover application (commercial version of wine) and whalla! Photoshop 6 runs on my linux box, and faster!

    So, now I can use Photoshop with my mouse (instead of that annoying touch-pad). The only thing that is a little annoying is that the focus of the tool bar and the other pallets take away from the canvas, so if you click on the marquee tool, you have to "double click" on the canvas to get the focus where you need it. Not a big deal, just a "thing."

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  6. Re:speed by shanebush · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Speed is not an issue with my setup at all. I have installed Photoshop 7.0 with no windows dlls at all in wine's fake_windows setup. The install ran perfectly for me. Pop in the cd, mount it, and run "wine setup.exe"

    The actual execution of Photoshop has been perfect so far. I have used various builtin filters (but not all) with no problems. Saving files is quicker on Linux than it is on Windows, but then again, I have my drive hdparm'd to the max :-)...

    Oh, btw, I'm running this on a PIII 500mhz w/ 128 meg of ram... not really a high end machine. Again, I have had no real performance issues with running Photoshop under Wine.

    BTW, I am using wine-20030618

  7. Re:Also ... by gowen · · Score: 5, Insightful
    how are we ever going to get native apps when its OK just to go out and buy windows and run it under Linux?
    WINE doesn't need a copy of Windows, its a reimplementation of the API's. This means that those APIs are getting better at mimicking those in Windows.
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  8. Re:Also ... by gte910h · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wine IS a Win32 subsystem emulator. It is not a x86 emulator that you must purchase Windows to run on top of it.

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  9. Re:An application doesn't bestow one with talent.. by FatRatBastard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An application doesn't bestow one with talent no matter how well it's written.

    But it can be a tool that makes a talented person's life a hell of a lot easier.

    A talented carpernter may be able to build a house with a Bowie knife and 20 acres of forest, but its not exactly the quickest and easiest way of doing it, especially if there are commercial demands and deadlines to meet. Sure, you're pure "artist" could render Finding Nemo with a #2 pencil, but how long would it take him.

    Personally, for the amount of PSing I do (bad Fark contests) the gimp and PS (or PS Elements) is a wash (mainly because I suck eggs). BUT... from the folks who do some sort of graphic design for a living almost all of them swear by PS, and quite a few of them have dicked around with the GIMP as well. To a (wo)man they all say it just isn't as good of a tool to get the type of work done in a timely manner.