Wine status report: Photoshop CS3

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One of the advantages Ubuntu /Linux has over OS X is that it’s possible to run Windows applications. (DMXell: ‘Ever heard of Darwine? … you look like a noob.’ To tell you the truth; no, I haven’t actually. And I don’t want to look like a noob now, do I?) With Wine, Linux users are able to run thousands of Windows games and applications.

Wine is one of the fastest developed open source applications. A new Wine version is released every two weeks. Not only can you run World of Warcraft, but new and heavy games like Call of Duty 4 are also supported. One application that users have been wanting to run on Linux for several years is Adobe Photoshop. We’ve been doomed to use version 8 until recently. Google is helping out with the development to have Photoshop CS3 supported. As for now, Photoshop CS2 runs without any problems.

Here I’m running Dreamweaver 8 and Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu. No tweaking or hacking needed. Just double clicked the exe files

However, a couple of hours ago Louis Lenders managed to install and run Adobe Photoshop CS3. He used the latest available source of wine (from git) which will be released in under two weeks as wine version 0.9.57 0.9.58.

As you can see the GUI is not correctly rendered yet

Give it a couple of weeks, and you can run your precious Adobe applications on Ubuntu / Linux
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To all you OS X fan boys: this isn’t a “Linux is better than Leopard and Vista combined and pwns the world!!1″-post. I know OS X can run Adobe applications. They were made for OS X in the first place. This is just a post with the latest status on running Photoshop CS3 using Wine.

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72 thoughts on “Wine status report: Photoshop CS3”

  1. Will you Mac fanboys stop it already? We all understand that being able to run applications natively is better. That is not the Linux communities problem; that is the software developer’s problem. This is an effort by the Linux community to improve interoperability, not become a Mac killer. Relax already.

    As for the comment regarding time better spent making GIMP an Adobe-killer: Again, this team chooses to work on another product, not GIMP. Although this article may focus on making Photoshop work on Wine, as a whole, Wine is an implementation of Windows API on Linux so that eventually ALL Windows applications will work cross-platform.

  2. This is great. Now if they would only get AutoCAD and SketchUp working flawlessly, I could completely switch from Windows to Ubuntu!

  3. lol… I really didn’t mean to sound whiny. I’m a pretty avid linux user and I love the fact that Wine is progressing so well. I just think that time would be better spent making Gimp into the Adobe-killer that it could be rather than trying to port native Windows applications over to Linux.

  4. Photoshop is awesome, don’t get me wrong, but GIMP is available and has pretty good imaging capabilities. Making bitmap graphics is kinda covered in Linux. Flash authoring is more important, in that there’s really no substitute in linux at the moment. Don’t say synfig. Making CS3 work will be great if the entire studio will work.

  5. Rock on. Wine rules.

    And to your question about HL2. Yes. Runs fine in both Crossover and Cider.

  8. One of the advantages of OS X over Ubuntu/Linux is that there is a native version of Photoshop CS3, along with all the other design apps Adobe offers.

    Oh, and can Linux run Final Cut Pro, iLife, Aperture, TextMate, Logic or ProTools? Uh, no, it can’t.

  9. I can’t wait for full CS3 compatibility. I’ve been sticking with Windows mainly for the Adobe suite. I hope the other CS3 applications will work too.

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  13. everybody mentioning parallels and bootcamp are missing the point. some people don’t want a windows installation on their machines. ever think of that?

  15. Obviously you have no clue on the differences between Parallels, VMware & Wine. Why don’t you go do some research and then comment or better yet I will help you.

    VMware & Parallels = Virtualization (You have to own a copy of Windows)

    Wine = An implementation of the Windows API (You don’t need to own a copy of Windows)

    Seriously, be familiar with what you are arguing about.

    Windows has its purpose.
    Mac has its purpose.
    Linux has its purpose.

    Who cares which is better!

  16. Agreed- if Adobe would just release Linux versions of their apps, the world would be a better place. Unfortunately- Adobe doesn’t seem to think it’s worth it. I can’t imagine it would be that difficult given OS-X’s BSD roots. Adobe isn’t known for their responsiveness to their customers anyway, so it isn’t all that surprising.

  17. Lightroom, please!

    Oh and tone the Linux vs OSX stuff down a notch. Wine is useful, but certainly no substitute for native support. The real solution is for Adobe to release a Linux version, which can’t be too hard if it runs on OSX. Or, of course, the Gimp could implement 16bit image support.

  18. “One of the advantages Ubuntu /Linux has over OS X is that it’s possible to run Windows applications.”

    Have you not heard of Parallels and VMware? Both of these allow Windows applications to be run in OS X.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m an avid Linux user, but I think it’s important for the open source community to acknowledge what the other platforms are offering.

  19. So the Wine group makes great progress is porting your apps to Linux, and the the Mac Fanbois take offense and start claiming how their systems are superior? What a bunch of whiners.

  21. Wine implements the Windows API so it shouldn’t be any slower than the windows itself.

  22. One of the great things about OSX is that I don’t HAVE to run Windows applications – I can just run Photoshop as a native binary.

    Guess which one is faster, your Wine implementation or my native Intel binary? Thought so.

  23. wow, all of the examples you mentioned are already made for the mac directly by the manufacturers. i would say that’s better than loading the windows versions in linux.

    and have you ever heard of darwine? os x is unix after all.