Do you miss Photoshop in Linux? GIMP is great but many people preffer Photoshop as they are used to it or miss some of the features that Photoshop has to offer. If you are one of those people and would like to run Photoshop through WINE on your Ubuntu box, here is how.

This guide will help you install any version of Photoshop up to version 7.0. It will not work on later versions such as CS2. If you want to run Photoshop CS" your best bet is VMware. Howto and tips here (Ubuntu forums).

I will assume that you are running the latest stable version of Ubuntu which is Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 (any flavour of it i.e. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc.)

1. If you have WINE already check your version.
   

   	wine --version
   	

   
   Currently the wine version in Ubuntu repos is wine-0.9.33. Any version above 0.9.30 will do fine.
2. Or install wine from the repos
   

   	sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install wine
   	

3. Run the wine config. You don't need to change any settings.
   

   	winecfg
   	

4. You are probably not using wacom tablet.
   You need to edit you xorg.conf file if you will not be using a wacom tablet. If you will use a wacom tablet then skip this step.
   

   	gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
   	

1. Find the area that deals with the Wacom tablet and put # (shown in red) in front of the lines to disable them. It will look like this when done:
   

   		#Section "InputDevice"
   	#  Driver        "wacom"
   	#  Identifier    "stylus"
   	#  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
   	#                                                      # /dev/input/event
   	#                                                      # for USB
   	#  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
   	#  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
   	#EndSection
   	#Section "InputDevice"
   	#  Driver        "wacom"
   	#  Identifier    "eraser"
   	#  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
   	#                                                      # /dev/input/event
   	#                                                      # for USB
   	#  Option        "Type"          "eraser"
   	#  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
   	#EndSection
   	#Section "InputDevice"
   	#  Driver        "wacom"
   	#  Identifier    "cursor"
   	#  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to 
   	#                                                      # /dev/input/event
   	#                                                      # for USB
   	#  Option        "Type"          "cursor"
   	#  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
   	#EndSection
   	

1. Then towards the bottom of the xorg.conf file, also disable the Wacom input devices (shown in red)
   

   		Section "ServerLayout"
   	Identifier	"Default Layout"
   	Screen		"Default Screen"
   	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
   	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
   	#	InputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
   	#	InputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
   	#	InputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
   	InputDevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
   	EndSection
   	

1. In order to install Photoshop 7 or lower, load the CD and right click on the setup.exe program and run with wine. Or use the terminal (change the path to wherever is your setup.exe file)
   

   	wine /media/cdrom0/Photoshop/Setup.exe
   	

1. Creating a launcher
   
   • If a launcher is not made and you have to make one yourself, right click where you want the launcher, select "create launcher"
   • Type in a descriptive name (e.g.Photoshop)
   • Type in the command (e.g. wine "c:\program files\adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Photoshop.exe")
   • Add a comment if desired (e.g. Edit photos)
   • Click on the button that edits the icon. choose a generic icon or navigate to one you have saved already.

1. Using the windows path to run the program works best rather than using the linux path to the program. Using the linux path in the past has killed the ability to "Save for web" in Photoshop. So stick with the windows path for now.

1. Problems
   
   1. There are some glitches right now that may be solved with later version of wine. Until then, be aware that you need to avoid resizing the pallet windows once a photo has been loaded, they may dynamically change size on their own when a photo is loaded and then there is nothing you can do but move the pallet around, but you can't resize it without crashing Photoshop. My suggestion is to save the workspace in Photoshop the way you want it, then when things get out of hand, load that workspace back to reset it periodically.
   1. And don't right click layers in the layer pallet. Use the the pallet options button (the little arrow thingy) at the top of the pallet to access the layer options.
   2. The pallet will not minimize when you minimize Photoshop, and it won't stay in a single workspace, the pallet will span all workspaces. So close Photoshop when you are done with.
   3. And that's it, you should be able to run Photoshop 7 or lower.
      
      
   4. This work is a shameless copy of HOWTO created by Shay Stephens on Ubuntu forums. Source.
      

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