2004-07-16

Photoshop on Linux

I just got Adobe Photoshop 7.0 to work in Linux under WINE by following a very nice tutorial I found (Photoshop Wine Tutorial)

anyways heres a little(long lol) tutorial on how to set up photoshop under wine, not setting up wine though, first install wine and you can configure it using a tool like this if you prefer a GUI http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/
set up your fake c drive under your home directory and make sure wine is working first by running simple windows executables like notepad.exe. anyways
this is assuming you have photoshop installed under windows on your windows parition (and making sure you can access your windows partition from linux)
boot into windows, now we need to do some registry work.
go to

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Start --> Run

and type

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regedit

now go to

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

and then find the registry that says ADOBE

right click and go to export and save the adobe reg file in C:\ for quick access

now boot back into linux and load up your favorite text editor let it be nano or kwrite which ever, and open the saved registry file in your C: drive

look for the adobe photoshop entries such as these

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Photoshop]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Photoshop.0]
"AdobeCommonSupport"=dword:00000001
@="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0"
"FreeBeforeSlopAdjust"=dword:1ff78000
"FreeSpace"=dword:0e7a3542
"ApplicationPath"="c:\program files\adobe\photoshop 7.0\"
"PluginPath"="c:\program files\adobe\photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Photoshop.0\ApplicationPath]
@="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Photoshop.0\PluginPath]
@="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Photoshop.0\Registration]
"NAME"="YOURNAME"
"COMPAN"="COMPANYNAME"
"SERIAL"="SERIALISHERE"

now go to your wine directory under your home directory which would be
/home/bolero/.wine for example and open the file system.reg with a text editor like kwrite

now at the very end or where ever add those entries i showed above into your system.reg file BUT you must remove the words HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in each regsitry and every single slash should be double slashed ( \ )
for example this is what my system.reg entry looks like

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[Software\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0]
"ApplicationPath"="C:\Program Files\Photoshop 7.0\"
"FreeBeforeSlopAdjust"=dword:0f842000
"FreeSpace"=dword:06effe7e
"PluginPath"="C:\Program Files\Photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\"

[Software\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Registration]
"COMPAN"="Bolero arts"
"NAME"="Bolero D"
"SERIAL"="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

[Software\Adobe\Photoshop\ApplicationPath]
@="C:\Program Files\Photoshop 7.0\"

notice that everything is a double \ and that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is gone
save your system.reg file and if you want you can edit your global wise WINE configuration file which on my system is located under

/usr/etc/wine and edit system.reg and do the same thing in that too if the first file fails

now hopefully you followed all that if not im sorry lol.
now go into your fake C drive, how ever you named it or set it up using the tool above, mine is this
/home/bolero/.wine/fake_Cdrive

now copy over your photoshop 7.0 directory fro myour windows side into
your fake Cdrive under Program Files

if you put photoshop into a different location change the registry paths to where you installed it in your fake Cdrive

now to see if it worked, open a terminal and cd to your photoshop directory under your fake Cdrive and type

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wine photoshop.exe

lots of crap will come out and photoshop splash will open, if all goes well you will see your registration information in the splash, if not and its blank photoshop will quit with an error saying it cannot find your personal settings, try going back and see whats wrong

okay okay yeah this is the hardway and it really isnt that mini to read, but if you have the adobe photoshop cd just use that, it does all the registry editing for you lol, this is only if you dont have the cd but have photoshop on your partition

Also Please note you must put photoshop under your fake Cdrive folder under your wine dirctory, you cannot just stick the photoshop folder anywhere on your system, it must be under your fake cdrive folder

-bolero

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