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The best way to use Photoshop CS3 on Linux

I don't want to use a Mac or Windows at work, but I have a lot of work in Photoshop when I need to create an HTML page from a Photoshop design.

What's the best way to use Photoshop CS3 on Linux, Wine, virtualization, ... ???

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Wine was a little flaky with me before going with Photoshop (keyboard shortcuts are weird) and it doesn't support the latest versions.



Using virtualization works like a charm, although you can easily and simply work with software like VirtualBox. It's easy to use, there are many tutorials on the internet, and it's usually in your default repository.

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In fact, Photoshop CS3 works for me under Gentoo Linux wine. The installation was flawless and it works without error. There are some display issues in the toolbar, but nothing unmanageable.

Photoshop CS2 is rated gold in the db Wine app, so you can use it if you're willing to sacrifice some of the functionality introduced in later versions.



Personally, I've found that Photoshop 7 is still an acceptable minimum for my job as a web designer.

For a long term solution, I recommend either CS2 / wine or Mac.

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I'm sorry to say this, but you just have to suck it up and use Windows or OSX if you want to use Photoshop. As said Wine doesn't work with CS3, and after Photoshop CS3 tried using Fedora Core's VirtualBox, it was a less pleasant experience. Again, if you're on a powerful enough machine, then this might be a good thing.

Does your job require the use of Photoshop beyond having to open PSD files? You could probably do a great job with GIMP if needed. Also, I'm sure OSX will have some other great bitmap graphics tools.

So your choice is to switch from VirtualBox, switch from Windows / OSX, or use a Windows box.

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It works fine under VirtualBox, but very slow in my opinion, for example with read / write file access. I have an Intel Core Duo 2 with 2GB memory, SATA2 HD and NVIDIA 8600

I have used it this way for a long time, but since then I have used it via wine and I am very happy it works fast. Surely through wine it doesn't look and works exactly the same as the window version, but it's fast enough for me to work with Camera Raw and image processing.

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Abe, If you only want image layers from a file, I have a portable command line tool that can extract them to PNG: http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/#psdparse

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