[nflug] Gimp/Adobe port to Linux

[Adam Laurich]

It all depends on what tools you use in Photoshop.  For 90% of everybody,
gimp does it all.

On 9/20/06, Sam Stern <samstern at samstern.net> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
> > [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of anthonyriga
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 02:39 PM
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: [nflug] Gimp/Adobe port to Linux
> >
> > I have heard from people who use Gimp and said that it
> > still dosent have the power like Photoshop. Lots
> > people use premiere and aftereffects for animation
> > graphics too. I have been working and supporting Macs
> > lately at our company that has a creative dept that
> > runs 50% Mac servers tiger os and 40% windoze,
> > packages like these would get users to switch over and
> > save company money by going to Linux. I like the Macs
> > but IMHO Linux is free and easier to use and to
> > configure dont have to buy their hardware etc. What
> > would the cost be anyways the price of Linux = none
> > price of the  Adobe programs?
> >
> >
>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> While reading over the vmware thread, it occurred to that there may be
> another option:
>
> Wine.
>
> Wine will not work as well the vmware solution but it might work well
> enough
> while you get the bugs shaken out of the vmware solution and might be good
> enough to provide to one or two more sophisticated users. Who knows, it
> might just work well enough for you that you can dispense with the extra
> labor and licensing cost of the vmware solution.
>
> Here is the Code weavers Cross over office entry for Photoshop 7.0:
>
> http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8
>
> And the WineHQ entry:
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> http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1336
>
>
> I've chosen Photoshop 7 to search for as that is the last version that
> Adobe
> made for the mac platform (Adobe Photoshop CS2 is Windows only afaik).
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Sam S.
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