Photoshop CS2, released in April 2005, is currently an end-of-life software when Adobe shutdown its activation servers in December 15, 2012. Adobe has once revealed its serial number online and it's still available somewhere. Although it's a pretty outdated version, lots of people still want to take advantage of this free chance and obtain this version of Photoshop.
Application Details:
Version: | CS2 (9.0) |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.adobe.com/products/... |
Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
Latest Rating: | Gold |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.9-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
95% - Most everything works, but I am holding off a perfect score due to random crashes and bugs that seem to come and go. I have tried every combination of preferences as well (defined virtual desktop, decorations, windows controls, etc) and everything seems to work (function-wise), however, I still have random GUI problems from time to time. Some of these GUI disturbances leave Wine inoperable. SAVE OFTEN.
What does not
I thought at first that clone stamp does not work. I was wrong. Go to System > Preferences > Windows > and make sure "Movement Key" is not set to alt. If ALT is selected, you won't be able to create a source when using clone stamp. Still can't get the **** menu font's right! Someone please msg me if you can help.
Workarounds
What was not tested
I haven't added many brushes, actions, other plugins, etc - my review is for a "stock" install.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Antergos x86_64 | Jun 05 2018 | 3.9-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | CheeseManFuu | |
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Aug 29 2017 | 2.15-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Cynplytholowazy | |
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 9.x "Stretch" x86_64 | Aug 14 2017 | 2.14 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Cynplytholowazy | |
Show | Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" x86_64 | Aug 02 2017 | 2.13 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Robert Nelson | |
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 9.x "Stretch" x86_64 | Jul 25 2017 | 2.13 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Cynplytholowazy |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
1348 | RegisterHotKey and UnregisterHotKey are not implemented. (Affects e.g. Adobe Photoshop.) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
5347 | Photoshop CS, CS2 startup takes too long | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
5348 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 install fails. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
5963 | Photoshop CS2 Trial fails when run for more then 1 time | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
7372 | Can't copy and paste between native apps (e.g., Open Office, Firefox, Gimp) and some Wine apps (affects Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Excel) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
7428 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Not work Fonts tools | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
7882 | Photoshop CS2 aborts after startup, saying "insufficient privileges" | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
8923 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Help Center does not install | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
9592 | Cursor seems not to move in Photoshop CS2 while hovering over a picture | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
9623 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 crashes without Times.TTF from corefonts (PS 7 affected somewhat, too) | NEW | View | |
10018 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 can't activate | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
10085 | Adobe Bridge CS2 complains that it can't start due to licensing restrictions (affects photoshop) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
10091 | Transparent images have black backgrounds with Compiz (affects Adobe Photoshop) | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
10461 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 can't use multiple scratch disks | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
10948 | Photoshop CS2 menu z-order problem | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
11238 | Photoshop CS2 doesn't ask to activate, fails on 2nd run | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
11251 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 update process funky | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
11252 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 window motion cosmetic problem | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
11292 | Splash and About windows of Adobe Photoshop 7,CS,CS2 transparancy not dynamic | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
11398 | Some PhotoShop controls are not working properly. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
11412 | Adobe Photoshop CS2: splash screen z-order problem | REOPENED | View | |
11431 | Adobe Photoshop CS2: z-overlay of image containers | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
11679 | BW Styler Plugin for Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 ugly cosmetic problem | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12005 | Regression in pressure sensitivity with wizardpen tablet driver and Photoshop 7 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12127 | Kai Power Tools filters z-order problem in Photoshop (7, CS2) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12145 | Photoshop: telephone activation is unstable | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
12154 | Jibberish in Photoshop 9 update view | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
12161 | Adobe Photoshop CS2: progress bar appearing on active viewport with "on top" | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12215 | Adobe Photoshop CS2: progress bar staying visible after operations | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
12364 | Overlapping of windows within Photoshop CS2 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12449 | Adobe Photoshop CS2: window parts hidden when opening multiple images | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12484 | Photoshop CS2: freezes when trying to save for web | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12592 | Photoshop CS2: complains "Please log in using an account with administrator privileges and try again" | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12599 | Photoshop CS2 image windows don't paint fully if you have two monitors with unequal resolutions | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12827 | Photoshop CS2: Cycle Images works only halfway | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
13017 | Photoshop CS2, info window - missing info. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
13707 | Adobe Creative Suite CS2 installer crash | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
13714 | Drag'n Drop dont work with Gnome and Photoshop | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
13950 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 crashes " user name, organization or serial number is missing or invalid" | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
13987 | Photoshop CS2 All image and dialog windows draw behind main parent window with KDE4 | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
14467 | Photoshop CS2 update installer doen't work... | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
14808 | CS2 Compiz tooltips | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
15111 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 tools stop working in maximised images | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
15242 | Photoshop CS2: Typing causes excessive processor use and brief unresponsiveness | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
15453 | Holding spacebar to use hand tool in Photoshop CS2 causes significant lag | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
15573 | Photoshop CS2: Main Window opens on first desktop regardless of active desktop | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
15574 | PhotoShop CS2: Photoshop Save As.. dialog ignores filename input on jpegs and names them ".jpg" (Workaround exists) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
15680 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 trial can't install | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
17508 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 won't install | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
17882 | Photoshop CS2 doesn't see the Internet | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
18951 | Corrupt icons | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
19342 | Adobe Photoshop CS2: Doesn't display license screen for installation (appinstall) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
19343 | Adobe Photoshop CS2: Edit controls have wrong names (appinstall) | NEW | View | |
19344 | Adobe Photoshop CS2: Some files missing on installation (appinstall) | NEW | View | |
20475 | Photoshop CS2: Can't switch from fixed ratio to free size in image size dialog | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
20725 | Adobe photoshop CS2 fails to install | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
20994 | Photoshop droplets do not activate actions | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
20996 | Photoshop CS2 does not remember its window size and position | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
21719 | Cannot install Adobe Photoshop CS2 due to msi_cabextract failure | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
23898 | Adobe Photoshop CS5 tool windows stay visible after switching to another program | NEW | View | |
24611 | Install Shield fails on 64bit multilib wine if WINEPREFIX was created by 64bit wine | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
26457 | Photoshop CS2 color picker "OK" button doesn't works anymore | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
26458 | Photoshop CS2 workspaces windows stays on top | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
28355 | Photoshop CS2 stopped working, unable to focus on any tool windows after a new file is created or opened | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
32869 | Photoshop CS2 - multiple problems with windows and workspace | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
32961 | Adobe CS2 will not install | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
33873 | Photoshop CS2 fails to "save as" | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
33906 | Minimising Photoshop CS2 and restore it doesn't restore the draws | NEW | View | |
34137 | photoshop cs2 child windows are minimized incorrectly | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
34366 | Photoshop CS2 fails at the "initializing tools" windows | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
36426 | ShortKeys stopped to work in Photoshop CS2 | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
36649 | Photoshop CS2 fails to load on initializing tools | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
37027 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 will not run under Ubuntu 14.04 | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
37418 | Unable to paste images from linux clipboard to Wine apps workspace (affects Photoshop, Powerpoint etc.) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
37655 | Photoshop CS2: err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bcd1f00 "loader.c: loader_section" | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
37740 | Photoshop CS2 - Scanner IO problems | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
38244 | Photoshop CS2: Crash at Open file window with choosing multiple files to load | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
48206 | Adobe Photoshop CS2 has become near impossible to use | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
51497 | Mouse cursors are broken in Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop 7.0 | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
53571 | PhotoshopCS2 Installer custom action page fault | UNCONFIRMED | View |
Tips for UI Quirks:
Thanks to earther for the following email:
I was having problems with the Photoshop 7 ALT-Click keybinding in a new Debian install running Compiz. I did the standard window manager tweak but it still didn't work properly. Then I discovered an ALT-Click keybinding in the Compiz Window Management > Move Window > Initiate Window Move settings. I changed it to 'super' like in Gnome window management and voila, it seemed to get it working again in Photoshop. You might want to add that bit of info to the clone tool info on the Photoshop 7 page. earther
Admin note: the following information was extracted from a user comment posted on July 13th 2008, and may not be relevant to current Wine.
Symptoms: After loading plugins, tools, brushes, etc., the program
halts with the error message "Unable to continue because of a hardware
or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable." Clicking OK
results in hard crash.
Diagnosis: This problem is related to a settings file that is created and modified each time Photoshop runs and exits.
Quick Fix: You can force Photoshop CS2 to start by holding down
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT while starting the application Linux or
Command+Option+Shift in Mac OSX. You will be presented with a dialog
box that asks if you wish to delete the settings file. Selecting Yes
will delete the file, and allow the application to start as normal.
PERMANENT FIX: The permanent fix is actually very simple. The
problematic file is the General Settings file, "Adobe Photoshop CS2
Prefs.psp", which references the default fonts Adobe expects to be
installed. If for any reason these fonts, or any other files, are not
installed or not functioning as expected, the application will terminate
to the desktop. This settings file is located here:
/home/[USER PROFILE]/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/[USER
PROFILE]/Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop/9.0/Adobe Photoshop CS2
Settings/Adobe Photoshop CS2 Prefs.psp
Naturally, replace [USER PROFILE] with the user name you are working
under.
Now, if you've encountered this error, you've already run CS2 twice,
and the settings file has already been created and corrupted. Although
deleting it will allow you to start CS2, it will again store a corrupted
file when you exit the application, and next time you start the
application, you'll repeat the same fatal error as usual.
So, having located this file, perform the following steps:
(1) Rename or delete the corrupted file
(2) Start CS2. It should start just fine.
(3) IMMEDIATELY after it has started, change the permissions on the
newly re-created settings file (Adobe Photoshop CS2 Prefs.psp) to READ
ONLY. You can do this in your file browser, or, if you are at the
command line, use the following command:
chmod -w ./Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS2\ Prefs.psp
(4) Rejoice. Your work here is done.
Now, whenever CS2 exits, it will no longer overwrite the fresh,
working settings file, and you will always be able to start it without
the annoying error and subsequent crash.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by Jeff Stark on Friday June 21st 2019, 3:10
by Andrew on Wednesday December 26th 2018, 19:54
helpx.adobe.com/au/creative-suite/kb/cs2-product-downloads.html?promoid=19SCDRQK
by Andrew on Wednesday December 26th 2018, 19:55
by Mike Walsh on Tuesday April 26th 2016, 14:45
When I set things up to install CS2, I made sure WineTricks was operational, and installed CabExtract to get the requisite data from the cabinet files. I also used Winetricks to install vcrun6, and to install mscorefonts. The piece above about the major freeze-up and unrecoverable error is what I got when I first tried installing CS2.
I found an article on OMGUbuntu! about the necessary requirements to run CS2 in WINE; somebody else had already done the digging, I just took advantage of it:-
www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/01/photoshop-cs2-available-for-free-works-fine-in-wine
After that, it was just a case of digging online and through the Puppy Forums, to locate all the necessary bits to put it all together. VCRun6 and 'mscorefonts' seem to have been the two missing pieces that made it all work.
And 'work' it most definitely does!
by nur hasan on Wednesday March 30th 2016, 20:38
by cesar on Thursday October 9th 2014, 18:45
Just let you know I try to paste a text to photoshop and it works.
by cesar on Friday October 10th 2014, 7:16
by Louis-Philippe Breton on Sunday June 15th 2014, 20:16
1)First install dconf-editor. In terminal: sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
2) Launch dconf then : org -> gnome -> desktop -> vm -> preferences.
Set value of mouse-button-modifier to other keys, such as , (I personnaly chose Super with great sucess).
by Taboo Tongue on Sunday March 23rd 2014, 2:52
Main Menu > Settings Manager > Windows Manager Tweaks > Accessibility > Key used to grab and move windows: [None]