Adobe Photoshop

Hello, I am a new linux user and recently I tried running PS CS6 under WINE via following this winehq page's instructions

PS CS6 did install, but I had no 3D Acceleration and it was a buggy experience

I have tried different versions, distros and DE's but the issues persist

sudonull.com/post/6539-Turn-on-GPU-acceleration-in-Photoshop-for-Wine

However, I recently found this article and I think it might be worth adding to the winehq page, I will be trying this shortly and post my results in a reply

Setting ClientSideGraphcs, Managed, and Decorated registry flags to N resolves many of the graphical problems with this program.

(Splash screen shows transparent overlay instead of black border, "Save to Web" dialog does not flicker when tooltips display, etc.)

See also:

wiki.winehq.org/Useful_Registry_Keys

In the X11 Driver section.

Setting these may have undesirable effects for other applications in that prefix, so I suggest keeping this application in a prefix all to itself, with these flags set.

Tested on WINE 3.0 (Xubuntu 18.04) with 64bit prefix and suggested winetricks, using intel integrated graphics.

this was helpful for me also, but didn't change Managed because it prevented the app to appear in the task manager

In System Settings, Window Management do the following:

Select Window Rules
Click "New..." to create a new Window Rules
Enter the description
Window Class -> Regular Expression -> Photoshop.exe
Check "Match whole window class"
Check on tab "Size & Position"
Check "Full screen": value Force, No
Check "Ignore Requested Geometry": value Force, Yes
Click Okay

It seems like it runs better on Intel Open Graphics Driver whereas it runs worse on nVidia blob even though it's just integrated HD Skylake Graphics vs a GTX 970.

I'm beginning to wonder if it works better on AMDGPU, Intel Open Graphics and other Open Drivers.

What differences due you see between the two video cards?

Intel freezes up less and can run 1gb files. The guides still dont show right after placing. This weird yellow tooltip also stays stuck on the screen still and sometimes file operations like save freeze when doing 1gb files @ 4k resolution.

Nvidia just struggles and locks up more on Arch wine staging using the blob. I never expected usability and stability to improve but it has on open Intel drivers.

OK, thanks for the info.

Also, you mentioned that the 'guides are weird'. If there isn't a bug filed for that it might be worth to add it.

So,
I had problems with installation since it always failed. I was experiencing similar problems after installation.

This winetricks line helped to install & to launch:
$ winetricks -q atmlib gdiplus msxml3 msxml6 vcrun2005 vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008 ie6 fontsmooth-rgb gecko

After that I was able to launch successfully only 32-bit version.
PS works quite good, but drawing tools are still not working properly. And that's sad. Also, after first start PS noticed me that something is wrong with graphics acceleration (I have Intel HD 4400). But other things seems to be working and it is stable.

Richard.

install oibaf drivers

3D support does seem to work if you enable opengl in winecfg

Currently running Photoshop CS6 under Wine 1.7.34 on Mint.
I too have experienced issues where some tools will not properly draw when holding the mouse down. Sometimes I can draw squiggles, sometimes it's just a dot.

Thankfully I found a workaround to this issue in tool options.
Simply turn off 'Spacing' for each drawing tool (Brush, Eraser, Pencil, etc). After that, dots should be no more.

This solution may work on older Photoshops.

Please see: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2210503

Quick fix for those dots & lines is to use older wine version, which is originally used in POL: 1.7.46-stagging