Wine Reviews
| Photoshop 6 on Linux with Wine |
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| Written by Tom Wickline |
| Tuesday, 09 October 2007 03:13 |
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Wine Reviews
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With each new release of Photoshop, Adobe manages both to satisfy the expectations of existing users and to pull a few magic features out of its hat. Version 6 is no exception. Powerful vector editing and masking, improved layer controls, layer styles, incredible typographic control, new Web publishing tools, and a cleaner, more accessible interface are already making version 5.5, itself a groundbreaker, look like ancient history. Photoshop's new vector features provide even more control when compositing photographic images. You can use the vector drawing tools simply to create polygons and custom shapes, but they can also act as layer clipping paths--vector masks that hide or reveal image areas in underlying layers. Editable layer effects such as drop shadow and glow were introduced in version 5.5; in version 6, they have been renamed layer styles. New options include satin, stroke and color, gradient, and pattern overlay. The layer styles dialogue box provides much more control--bevel and emboss has five style options, as well as adjusters for technique, depth, direction, size, soften, angle, attitude, gloss, contour, highlight mode, opacity--and that's not all of them. As the name suggests, layer styles can easily be saved and applied to other layers. You can enter and edit text directly onto the layer and set style attributes from the new tool options bar. Photoshop 6 seems to have benefited from some of InDesign's superb typographic tools, with character and paragraph palettes providing precise control. Web imaging tools have been revamped, with layer-based slicing now available from within Photoshop itself, and a major overhaul of ImageReady introducing weighted optimization, rollover styles, and tweened animation. Wine configuration This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop. $ winecfg Once the .wine directory is built and the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtul desktop in the graphics tab if you wish. Installing Photoshop 6 You might need to mount your installation CD with the option -o unhide. This will avoid having problems with hidden files during installation. mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 tom@tom:~$ cd /media/cdrom0 tom@tom:/media/cdrom0$ wine setup fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported. The setup should now run without any errors and complete as successful.     Photoshop 6 first run tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Photoshop\ 6.0.1\ CE tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop 6.0.1 CE$ wine photoshp.exe fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported. fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet   
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