Within the graphic design programs and / or photo, a single leader and has been in this position for several years, called Adobe Photoshop. Of course good alternatives have emerged, such as Gimp, based on open source, has achieved remarkable progress in this field, however, the truth is that many people still prefer Photoshop, Gimp, and it is not bad, but is still not as powerful as software such as Adobe to earn all users already accustomed to using PS.
That's why Linux is difficult to Photoshop, as Adobe has developed only for Windows and Mac OS X, however, have already made some attempts to "port" the code to Linux. Mainly used Wine, a Windows emulator on Linux programs to run Adobe Photoshop, but in recent versions such as CS3, had not even been made to install the application. Because Google is financially supporting this project, which is expected shortly to be achieved by running Photoshop on Linux, without any problem.
It also hired the team of CodeWeavers to improve the performance of PS CS and CS2 with Wine, so it is arming some really solid. So we might soon see a breakthrough, and in some months more, and could enjoy Linuxeros Photoshop.
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February 19th, 2008 at 4:28 a.m.
Since then ... at the time that Adobe launched its star products (especially Photoshop) that run on Linux, many of which now still tied to MS will go the final step.
Anyway, there are many people that go on giving canutas step (forced) from Windows XP to Vista ... what a jump from Windows to Linux is not yet available to everyone.
At least, my wife, who is a teacher, tells me that in all schools in Catalonia (Spain) computers have (or will soon) Linux. Now you have Firefox instead of IE, i OpenOffice instead of MSOffice. It is already a step ahead, right?
February 19th, 2008 at 8:57 a.m.
Photoshop on linux [...] [...]
February 19th, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
I think we should better support as it can to GIMP, a publisher who is well matched to the giant, evil is that it has no reputation.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I think a bad move for Google, it's like to run MS Office support on Linux instead of supporting OpenOffice, this is a blow to the community and developers GIMP. Finally it shows that Linux is still much we need to go step by the real worry is that Adobe is developing for Linux, but the cruel truth is that our friends are designers "Elite" and we like the operating system with the interface more mona / beautiful. I'm honest I do not like Linux may be safe, fast, etc. But even with the new version of KDE I think OS aesthetically beautiful, not much is expected of something that is more free and do quite well.
But as a user would always be my choice between Windows and Mac, Linux server if that is best.
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Remain too expensive for non-professional users, so we will continue with Gimp on Linux platform
February 25th, 2008 at 9:36 a.m.
Because this initiative? I thought that GIMP was at Photoshop, I have used and I am very satisfied with but I am not an expert graphic designer.
IF there are tools that should be emulated best (or better yet, develop free software projects like) such as Flash, which is a necessity and if there is no alternative and we have to change similar to Windows to use it. Hata where the wine is unable to emulate.