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Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by jkrltifk »

saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

Adobe actually did extensive market study regarding a PS Linux port. The conclusion was that there is basically zero demand for a PAID Photoshop. People do want PS on Linux,but they want a FREE version (sudo apt-get install photoshop)

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by zozbot234 »

saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

> they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively without worry of fragmentation

Corel tried this already with a Debian-derived distribution, like a proto-Ubuntu of sorts. It didn't work, so they abandoned that effort.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by mobilemidget »

saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

Did COREL not have their Linux distro? I vaguely remember having 3.0 install discs lying around. Certainly not remember if it ran any corel applications though

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by iudqnolq »

jkrltifk wrote: post #71
saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

Adobe actually did extensive market study regarding a PS Linux port. The conclusion was that there is basically zero demand for a PAID Photoshop. People do want PS on Linux,but they want a FREE version (sudo apt-get install photoshop)

Is this publicly available info?

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by e40 »

duxup wrote: post #66
knolan wrote: post #40

In some ways Photoshop is losing relevance in the creative space. Adobe’s rent seeking has pissed off a lot of people and upstarts like Krita, DaVinci Resolve and Serif are making waves. Affinity Photo and Designer offer strong Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives on MacOS, Windows and even iPadOS (no plans for a Linux version however) when Adobe seem to struggle to get a half baked version of Photoshop on iPadOS.…

Lightroom is still irreplaceable so far for me and photography.

I would move from macOS to Linux as soon as there is a LR equivalent.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by zozbot234 »

mobilemidget wrote: post #73
saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

Did COREL not have their Linux distro? I vaguely remember having 3.0 install discs lying around. Certainly not remember if it ran any corel applications though

It did, but AIUI they relied on Winelib, as opposed to being true "native" ports.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by stan_rogers »

washadjeffmad wrote: post #45
hellozee wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No non destructive editing available is one of the biggest drawbacks

Does the history or duplicating the working/background layer not cover that?

No, it doesn't. Adjustment layers aren't committed; they're just a set of instructions that can later be altered.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by vunie »

jkrltifk wrote: post #71
saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

Adobe actually did extensive market study regarding a PS Linux port. The conclusion was that there is basically zero demand for a PAID Photoshop. People do want PS on Linux,but they want a FREE version (sudo apt-get install photoshop)

zero demand for a PAID Photoshop? If that's what the study really concluded then it completely failed to take into account current customers who want to switch to linux.

I would love to read more about that study.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by Izkata »

akersten wrote: post #47
grawprog wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, because i've never really understood, I see this a lot without much explanation. I've used gimp for years for various image and photo things and haven't used Photoshop since the mid 2000's, what's so bad about gimp in comparison, other than the ui(which to me seems much the same as old versions of photoshop), to Photoshop?

Personal and strongly-held opinion follows: The biggest drawback of GIMP is that it is the least intuitive software I or anyone I've asked in person has ever used. Basic operations like making selections, cropping, and moving selections or layers are a chore. The keyboard shortcuts don't make any sense, and the tool icons all look the same, so I wind up hovering over each one to find the dang crop tool in the first p…

> The selection tool is just weird. You can highlight a region of the image, but to manipulate or transform it, there's no "Control+T" equivalent as far as I've discovered.

I don't know what ctrl+T is (there may be some nuance I'm missing), but in Gimp the corner resize handles are always visible in a selection, the side handles appear on mouseover, and moving a selection is click+drag in the center.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by jkrltifk »

vunie wrote: post #78
jkrltifk wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adobe actually did extensive market study regarding a PS Linux port. The conclusion was that there is basically zero demand for a PAID Photoshop. People do want PS on Linux,but they want a FREE version (sudo apt-get install photoshop)

zero demand for a PAID Photoshop? If that's what the study really concluded then it completely failed to take into account current customers who want to switch to linux. I would love to read more about that study.

Maybe I should have said low exclusive Linux demand. Current customers are already paying, and ditching Photoshop is not a credible threat, at least at the moment.
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