wine not working, and photo shop not loading
 

Hello all,

I am a photographer, trying to get linux to run photoshop. I have installed wine on my computer, but photoshop will not boot. I was wondering if i could get some help? thanks in advance.

Hi,

Welcome to LQ. Can you provide some more detail about this issue?

What version of Ubuntu?

How did you install wine?

Will other Windows programs open in wine?

I would use Gimp instead. Getting Wine and Photoshop working nicely can be an arduous task.

Depends on the version of PS. If you mean CS there are quite a number of tricks that need to be done.

http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop

Gimp is not a good choice in the current stable branch (2.6) for professional photographers, because it lacks 16 bit per channel support. This will change in version 2.8.

I am using Photoshop Elements 5.0. thought i should clarify.

I would use GIMP, but it is not loading either. I am currently using Piknik just because i need to resize and do basics, and I hate keeping people waiting.

Are you trying to use GIMP through wine, or the native version in linux?

Just using Gimp through linux, and photoshop through WINE. I am debating about re-installing?

HNave you tried running GIMP through the terminal, to see if it's spitting out any errors? I had thought i had a program not starting either, but i had forgotten it required JACKED to be started first, there wasnt any indication from starting it within the environment though.

it might have some, still learning what i need to be looking out for to keep this from happening in the future.

I'm on my windows partition now, but if you start a terminal session and enter whatever the name of the gimp loader is, you'll actually see the text output, it might give you an idea if you're missing something.

Did you see this link? http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop