Photoshop CS5 on Linux, the best way

[Zeealex]

here is the method i used to get Photoshop CS5 working (virtually) problem free in Ubuntu 10.10.
first make sure you have a legitimate photoshop disk, and another PC with windows installed, a 2GB memory stick, and wine might also help

to start off, startup the windows machine and ready the photoshop disk. once windows has finished taking years to load up, put the photoshop disk in your drive and install it on windows (trust me on this)

once it has installed, copy the Adobe folder onto the 2GB memory stick, wait a while.

when that is done. remove the memory stick and put it into the USB port of the Ubuntu system, but wait, we haven't configured wine yet!
run the terminal (applications>accessories>terminal)
type in these 2 (give a password and authorization when prompted)

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
after that, run this:

sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005
give anything it asks for
and wait for it to finish setting up that's that bit done.
in your main ubuntu menu, under applications, wine should have it's own little speck go to that, another menu will pop up and one section will say "browse C: drive" click that, familiar to windows? it should be.
download atmlib.dll
atmlib.dll download - free dll files
and put that into the following wine C: directory.
C:\windows\system32

now transfer the Adobe folder into your home folder.

then go to the wine menu again and configure it, just click the "add application" button and it will have a lovely open box. locate where you put the adobe folder in wine if you put it in the home folder, it will be "my documents" in wine. enter the adobe folder then go to Adobe photoshop CS5, enter that, find your happy photosop.exe file and configure wine to run it in a windows based emulation. just click okay
then run photoshop.
you should be greeted with something like this:


Known errors:
the Paste option goes a little barmy on you, it will paste some things not others. to fix that just save the image from the Internet and then open it in photoshop, coy it there and paste it on the image you are working on.
tooltips, the little orange bars, will sometimes stay on the screen, even without photoshop up (if it's still running)
the text error most Ubuntu users go on about, is not present on my configuration so you should be able to use it without an issue.

other than that everything works great and I'm sure you will enjoy it.

any problems post a line and i'll see what i can do to help

if this post is against the rules i'll happily delete the post, as i did not know.

 

[Vafann]

This is interesting. I have put Ubuntu into windows with the Wubi thing. I have figured out that you can access your windows files from "Places/home" I think it was. I have been afraid to do anything else so far because Unbuntu is so different and scary. Do you think that I can acess photohop and other programs from there as well?

 

[Zeealex]

you could try, you'd need to get the read only attributes off the files in windows first. as i forgot to say you need to allow "executing file as a program" in Ubuntu and if the windows file is read only, it wont let you change it.
to do that in windows right click the adobe folder, then click properties and un-tick the read only button at the bottom then press the apply changes to folder sub-folders and files, press okay, it will close, then press apply. then close it.

to execute a file as a program in Ubuntu, right click the photoshop.exe file and click properties then go to permissions and at the bottom ish tick the "allow executing file as a program" and close.
if it unticks itself, transfer the files into ubuntu and try again
also some programs like games wont work
because of their dependence upon direct X that's mostly games.

and once you are used to Ubuntu, you'll like it.

 

[Vafann]

Thank you! I´m going to copy and save your advice to a note on my computer so that I can go through it step by step.

I hope I´ll like Ubuntu too, but it scared me at first, I felt like I had died and come to some other planet or something, I couldn´t believe that I was still on my own computer. LOL!

 

[Zeealex]

XD
yeah, TBH i was pretty scared at first, but it's only been 2 months since windows was infected by a trojan and siince ubuntu has been loaded onto my PC. and i think i can call myself pretty comfortable
hope it works for you

 

[Spencer Guerra]

Alright, so I get Photoshop all installed nicely on to Linux via Wine 1.2. There's a pretty little icon on my desktop, I can open it and Photoshop runs perfectly.

Aside from the text issue.

So I add the atmlib.dll into my system 32, and open Photoshop CS5 again, only to be welcomed with a crash error.

On the second try, and every try after that, Photoshop is never to be opened again..

I try opening it from every directory (The Desktop, The Menu, The C Drive), and all I get is a loading curser for about thirty seconds, and that's that. It never opens.

Any suggestions?