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Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-friends-to-have dept.

S point 2 writes "Google has announced that they have hired Codeweavers, maker of the popular Wine software to make Photoshop run better on Linux. 'Photoshop is one of those applications that desktop Linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we're happy to say they work pretty well now...We look forward to further improvements in this area.' It is unknown whether or not the entire Creative Suite will be funded for support, but for the time being it seems Photoshop-on-Linux development is getting a new priority under Google."

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  1. Re:We already have Photoshop! by Suriken · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're damn well right
    despite all this posturing by the GIMP-fanboys, the fact is that photoshop pretty much blows it out of the water.
    I use photoshop for plenty of design work, (although I tend to use the whole illustrator-indesign-photoshop combo, so linux has a fair way to go before it can meet that, sure there are some programs out there that do _some_ of the stuff I need to do, but on the whole they are all just too limited)

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  2. Re:We already have Photoshop! by fastest+fascist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Then I guess you don't work in, say, 3d animation or CGI, or anything where the paint tools of gimp really do gimp you when you try to use them.

  3. Re:We already have Photoshop! by xhrit · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hollywood? CinePaint? Your opinion is the only thing totally worthless here.

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