Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney

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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Rotating is also excutiatingly painful

[sacrilicious]

To do a simple 90-degree rotation of an image in gimp, you must:

• expand the canvas so that nothing gets cropped out during the rotation, then
• invoke the rotation command, then
• re-crop so that no extra canvas remains

I'm kind of curious as to how such a simple operation as a rotation could have been implemented so counterintuitively for so long. (Please, no "quite whining and do it yourself" posts, I'm busy with other things and I would have done it right the first time anyway).