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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. Huh? by Orig_Club_Soda · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Google is hiring someone to fix and Adobe product? Isn't there some kind of rights infringement here?

  2. Gimp. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Gimp does not hold a light to photoshop, end of story.

  3. Stop this, stop this now Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Google is spreading itself too thin. FOCUS. FOCUS.
     
    I could give a rats ass about Photoshop crap on Linux.
     

  4. Re:We already have Photoshop! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    While I don't agree with the GP that the GIMP is a Photoshop replacement, I think you're being pretty harsh. It's a damn powerful piece of software, and the fact that it doesn't do _everything_ does NOT make it a toy. Yeah, just keep telling yourself that you little linfag. Gimp is a toy. Let me know when it supports layer styles.
  5. Re:We already have Photoshop! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can tell someone I use Firefox, Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Pidgin -- that, not so bad. I can say I use Gnome or KDE (depends on my mood), or I can tell them I use Pan. But I cannot look at another human being and tell them to use "The GIMP." I can see most of that. Firefox, OpenOffice, Pidgin maybe, Gnome, KDE... They're fine.

    But Ubuntu? Come on, that's a horrible name, at least as bad as the Gimp. I mean, they may as well call it Fugdupdabut.

  6. 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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  7. 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.

  8. Re:We already have Photoshop! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let me know when you are no longer a fucktard who is too fucking stupid to even exist let alone use a computer by hitting yourself on the head several times with a fucking hammer until fucking death.

  9. 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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