It all depends on what tools you use in Photoshop. For 90% of everybody, gimp does it all.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sam Stern</b> <<a href="mailto:samstern@samstern.net">
samstern@samstern.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From:
<a href="mailto:nflug-bounces@nflug.org">nflug-bounces@nflug.org</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nflug-bounces@nflug.org">nflug-bounces@nflug.org</a>] On Behalf Of anthonyriga<br>> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 02:39 PM
<br>> To: <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>> Subject: [nflug] Gimp/Adobe port to Linux<br>><br>> I have heard from people who use Gimp and said that it<br>> still dosent have the power like Photoshop. Lots
<br>> people use premiere and aftereffects for animation<br>> graphics too. I have been working and supporting Macs<br>> lately at our company that has a creative dept that<br>> runs 50% Mac servers tiger os and 40% windoze,
<br>> packages like these would get users to switch over and<br>> save company money by going to Linux. I like the Macs<br>> but IMHO Linux is free and easier to use and to<br>> configure dont have to buy their hardware etc. What
<br>> would the cost be anyways the price of Linux = none<br>> price of the Adobe programs?<br>><br>><br><br>Hi Anthony,<br><br>While reading over the vmware thread, it occurred to that there may be<br>another option:
<br><br>Wine.<br><br>Wine will not work as well the vmware solution but it might work well enough<br>while you get the bugs shaken out of the vmware solution and might be good<br>enough to provide to one or two more sophisticated users. Who knows, it
<br>might just work well enough for you that you can dispense with the extra<br>labor and licensing cost of the vmware solution.<br><br>Here is the Code weavers Cross over office entry for Photoshop 7.0:<br><br><a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8">
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8</a><br><br>And the WineHQ entry:<br><br><a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1336">http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1336</a><br>
<br><br>I've chosen Photoshop 7 to search for as that is the last version that Adobe<br>made for the mac platform (Adobe Photoshop CS2 is Windows only afaik).<br><br><br>HTH,<br><br>Sam S.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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