Considering teaching GIMP to my daughter and some of her classmates and keeping PS in Virtualbox for the same reason. Linux support is so simple today there really is no reason not to support it. Gimp ports easily to any platform and is adequately robust and superior is some ways. If PS were a native install we would subscribe simply to support progressive thinking software. As it is open-source [think Android etc] is responding more quickly to consumers needs and desires [operating system support is a great example] so it makes more sense to direct students to platforms that do not only recognize "walled gardens." Cheers
Spot on. Not only wrong, I was unaware of how much GIMP improved over the last 10 years. For example, I didn't know that Content Aware tool in PS originated from GIMP's Resynthesizer filter (installed separately but still free as a bird). The more I know the program, the more "a-ha!" moments there are and I'm already feeling at home. At the same time it is forever being free. How cool is that?
Cheers for your progressive thinking Steven and teaching the kids.
I am not a Gimp user but I wonder if your history may not be a bit unclear on this. Content-Aware functionality in Photoshop goes a while back already and probably incorporates different approaches – at least I don’t immediately see how the seam-carving-approach behind Content-Aware-Scale would figure in Content-Aware-Fill. And Adobe would have to honor the patents that other software providers, even if it’s freeware, hold ...
Well I'm no software historian by any means, but initial Resynthesizer version goes back to 2008 by Paul Harrison. It includes both content aware fill for restructuring transparency and non-transparent things. Google says Content aware fill was introduced in PS CS5 in April 2010.
Now this all is rather meaningless in 2020, but the whole point was that GIMP made a long way and had some neat things ahead of its time.
In any case I am not trying to discourage anyone from using Gimp, a few years back we even had to use it to salvage a file that Photoshop could not edit anymore because of a curious, off-canvas pixel-limit violation.
Hello everyone , why do you not release any softwares under Linux?
Sorry I don't care Windows because I am very scared to Windows. I am using since September 2018 with Ubuntu 18.04 and I cannot install Adobe software on wine because they are very sensitively.
Please release softwares under Linux! I thought you don't want release softwares under Linux. I recommend you have experience of XLib/Gtk3/4
We would love to test trail version or buy softwares under Linux.
Please stop use only Windows and macOS! We want Adobe's Developers should release under Linux.
I recommend you release installer of Adobe like VMWare's Installer.
If you don't worry about distros like Ubuntu, Mind, Solus, Redhat, OpenSuse or ArchLinux etc.
Ready for what? I already unsubscribed. There are plenty of fantastic photo software for Linux. Most are free. It's about how much time and resources you have to invest to learn something new. Further, it's so easy to reach devs and communicate with them directly about your wishes or issues you may have. They are more than eager to assist you.
My newest finding was Neat Image, professional noise reduction program, having a proper linux port.
A decade ago, there were many issues that prevented this that are apparently no longer an issue.
1) Linux fragmentation (Ubuntu seems to have won by a huge margin if you include derivatives like Linux Mint)
2) Users hating proprietary software (the Linux ecosystem is now full of proprietary apps like Skype, Zoom, Spotify, Netflix, and people actually pay for subscriptions regardless of platform)
3) Difficulty of porting (Wine has improved a lot in the past decade that making PS work for Wine is much easier than porting the entire software from scratch to Linux; users won't mind PS being bundled with a copy of Wine that works with it)
4) Not enough market share (there are many Linux users who already dual-boot with Windows just to use Photoshop; these are obviously counted as Windows users in PS surveys, but they will likely to pay for a version that works on Linux to get rid of the need for dual booting)
5) Linux is not a "professional" platform (even Microsoft now supports Linux in WSL, DotNET, Visual Studio, etc)
Hence, I wish to revive this request. I know this was requested years ago but the situation has changed and perhaps it may be time for a reevaluation.
Next step - adobe, the developers' team. Pick the script and put on the virtual machine for example Fedora - Install, test, and debug - if any error occurred, I presume prepper task board, make the task, solve one by one - several sprints - done, official Linux version of Photoshop CC.
But with Apple's announcements about moving to ARM, I and I imagine many others are about to move to Linux over the next year or two. It's not tenable to stay in Apple's ecosystem as it becomes more and more closed with fewer and fewer options for power users.
I do not plan to use Windows.
I know my way around Linux very, very well, and use it for almost everything other than desktop applications. At my workplace, every but the marketing staff is Linux, and with the changes in Mac OS, well... You know what I'm about to say.
Adobe, we're paying customers. We'd love to continue paying Adobe for years to come. Otherwise, it's off to GIMP, RawTherapee/DarkTable, VivaDesigner, InkScape, etc.
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