Photoshop + Lightroom equivalent?


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Hey guys, I'm thinking of switching to Linux and giving that a shot, only thing I would miss would be Photoshop and Lightroom (which I use almost daily). Is there anything thats even close to that on Linux?

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Hey guys, I'm thinking of switching to Linux and giving that a shot, only thing I would miss would be Photoshop and Lightroom (which I use almost daily). Is there anything thats even close to that on Linux?

For Lightroom there are some RAW image editors in Linux but I have not used anyone.

For Photoshop it depends, if you will use it for webgraphics then Gimp should be enough, if its for printing and design in a professional scale then there is nothing in linux that comes even close, your best shot its using Photoshop CS2 with Wine.

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Lightroom offers their Linux version (in beta) for free. Oops, was thinking of LightZone

GIMP does almost everything Photoshop can do, but cannot work in CYMK, so if you use paper print colorspace, GIMP will not cut it, I am afraid.

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For managing, comparing and corecting picture, Digikam is probably the best tool. It has many functionalities from Apple Aperture and LightRoom and some other nice tool, including a flexible plugin system.

To actually work with pictures and modify them, you still have a lot of choice, but none are close to PhotoShop (exept Pixel, but it is not free). The GIMP and Krita are probably what you will find of closer.

But if you are looking for a replacement for Adobe Illustrator, you have Inkscape, which is great

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Lightroom will actually install on Linux and run using WINE. I don't know how well it'll work after that, though. Are you using the latest version of Lightroom?

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^I was going to suggest that with the addition that you could also try Photoshop in WINE.

Isn't Google working to make Photoshop run better under WINE as well?

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Or one could use VMWare and run whetever they want.

Or actually use VirtualBox, because unlike VMware, they're not holding the cool features back, like seamless mode as seen in VMware Fusion.

--edit: Well, I've tried it on WINE 0.9.60 and it appears somewhat functional. Catalogs are broken because a function used in the loading process is stubbed, and screen drawing is pretty slow, so you'd need Compiz to prevent redraws as much as possible. I didn't tinker too much with it. I guess I can try 0.9.61 as soon the Solaris patch is out. Due to broken catalogs, developing pictures doesn't seem to work either.

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