How To succesfully Install Photoshop CS3 (XP dlls required)
First off: don't expect this to work well. Wine does not yet support Photoshop CS3. Only read these instructions if you feel like fiddling around, not if you expect to get a working Photoshop.
OK, now that you know that Wine does not yet fully support Photoshop CS3, here's how I got it to install and run today with wine-1.1.6:
Install Photoshop CS3 as normal by running its Setup.exe.
Run Photoshop CS3 as normal, e.g.
$ cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS3
$ wine Photoshop.exe
That's it! It runs very slowly, though. Hats off to Jacek for fixing the installer!
I have had problems with the app's license manager giving up because the app was running too slowly. When this happens, you have to remove ~/.wine and reinstall.
This causes the installer to fail on all versions of Wine >1.1.17
You will need to compile the latest Wine yourself, and revert commit b8965ee7c90a687af4c84ad0ede73b1df901e16c
See http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko.
"If you happen to be running Wine without installing it, put the cab file in $build_dir/../gecko/"
OR you can download and install Wine 1.1.17, install CS4 and move back up to the latest Wine. If you are doing this, you should create a new WINEPREFIX to ensure you do not damage an existing install. This method is not recommended.
An unhandled exception occurs when starting Photoshop, and possibly every Wine program following install.
Run wine regedit /D "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\adfs" immediately after install. The error will appear when you run this command.
Photoshop CS4 will crash when opening a complex file.
No known workaround.
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Works... ish..
by CodeNinja on Sunday January 17th 2010, 14:19
with the help of #winehq on freenode I was able to get cs3 installed and partially working, My test data has already been submitted. It wasnt as great as you'd think, but its better than where I was previously (without photoshop, or with it on a vm)
Its a bit slow, icons dont show etc, but it will work if you really want it that bad. I gave some notes in my test data, however if you want to read the full 'how I did it' checkout my blog at blog.chriswalker.devnetonline.net/
cs3 patch
by Michael Jones on Saturday September 5th 2009, 10:34
I can't find the patch, I have installed both gecko and gdiplus, but the url for the patch seems to be dead, anyone know where i can get the patch from?
works well?
by v1nsai on Sunday June 21st 2009, 1:05
Anyone else care to comment on how well this works? I'm having issues and debating on working out the bugs or not. We all appreciate any input and thanks for the work that has already been done!
RE: works well? by nDarkdUCK on
Tuesday July 21st 2009, 1:12
CS3 (10)
by Ari on Sunday March 15th 2009, 19:01
Installs fine on Hardy, but then has issues with with various boxes for tools or brushes not showing up correctly, or disappearing from the main window. Could be interference from Compiz, but I don't think so - tried also in regular KDE
