Hi, well I've tried coping with The GIMP but could never get it to make smaller compressed file sizes, so I had to cheat and use Adobe Photoshop 7, however, I use to switch over to Windows to do this, and it was only for compressing the file, so I thought, how about getting Adobe Photoshop 7 working with Linux (no, I am not kidding!), well here's my steps on how to do this. (tested and verified that it works, not completely tested though). Also working off by memory so I do apologise if some things aren't correct, but I know it's near enough that you should be able to work it out.

What you may need:

CD-Writer, (maybe)
Windows, (needed!)
Adobe Photoshop 7 CD (well, if you didn't how could you do this?) (needed!)
A blank CD, (maybe)
A Printer, (maybe)
NTFS Access from Linux on Dual Boot machines (maybe)
WINE (needed!)

So first of all we need access to a Windows machine, I'm dual booting, with Windows XP and Fedora Core 3, I've also got NTFS access for Linux, so copying the files over wasn't hard at all and is much quicker than the other methods I will suggest.

First install Photoshop 7 on C:, could be any other drive but we've got to change it to match C: in the registry information, so if you've already got an installation, like I had residing on H:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 7 then not to worry as it's quite simple to make the change.

Now that you've installed it, first run it once, just so registry information gets updated then close it. Now we have to go into the registry and export it. So open up the run dialog box by either Start | Run or WinKey + R and type regedit.

We should now be in the Registry Editor program, we must now look for \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 7.0\ it should be highlighted we will now export it, export it to your documents as adobe.reg, now if you aren't dual booting with NTFS access then still follow these instructions but I'll tell you when you have to change it.

Right click on abode.reg and edit it, Select All the text (Ctrl + A) then Copy it (Ctrl + C).

Open up a new notepad document and Paste (Ctrl + V) and save as adobe.txt (why did we do this?, well it saves editting the binary, since this is what a .reg file is when exported, and I had to edit it with a hex editor on linux, so I'm saving you time by doing it this way)

Now the changes for those without dual booting or NTFS access, (this is however if you're using NTFS, if you're using FAT32 then you should be fine, however my scope does not cover mounting drives, etc, (maybe later) but for now it's getting PS7 working)

You have two options, print out the adobe.txt file, which means you'll have to type things in manually or copy it onto CDR in which I'm about to explain.

Let me explain what I'm going to do, I'm going to copy the contents of the /Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop 7 directory onto CD, other methods could be NTFS/FAT32 access to your drive and then copy it to the right location or burning this onto CDR and transferring it this way and even networking between PCs, I'll leave it up to you, oh and if you're not printing the adobe.txt file out, then also add that into your CDR.

So now we should have our adobe.txt file and Directory of Photoshop 7 somewhere, either on CD or on hard drive.

We boot back over into Linux, open up console and browse through our User Directory's wine location which should be "~/.wine/c_drive/Program Files" here we create a new directory mkdir -p Adobe, we now copy the Photoshop 7 directory into "~/.wine/c_drive/Program Files/Adobe/" we then go back to the root of our wine location ~/.wine and edit the system.reg file, but first we must ammend out text file.

We must remove all instances of "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\", we must make sure that our \ (slashes) are doubled so we replace \ with \\ on some editors you may need to replace \ with \\\\ because you need to escape it first, we must replace SOFTWARE with Software (not sure if we had to but for consistency sake I did). Now select all and copy it.

So now we edit system.reg, just scroll to the bottom and add our adobe.txt just by pasting it inside the file, don't worry after wine run's it'll sort this file out.

Now all we got to do is run wine, from console type:

/usr/bin/wine /home/<USERNAME>/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Photoshop\ 7.0/Photoshop.exe

We can create a shortcut for this but I'll let you choose on how to do that, Hint: make sure it's ran in Terminal mode.


Hope this works well for other people.

Cheers,

MC

Thanks Man. I might be converting my PC to linux soon, and this is important for me to know, thanks for the tutorial.

I dont have a copy of photo shop 7 myself to verify this, but in other forums, most people install hpoto shop 7 by.....

Installing wine in linux (http://winehq.org)
insertng the photoShop 7 cd, and running the installer under linux with wine.

no windowsXP, no dual boot, no cdr's or copying files needed. did this not work for you ???

I never tested the installer out, well, my reason was my Photoshop 7 on my computer already existed and pretty much up2date, so I didn't think about installing straight from the CD. I will test it out though, I'm just wondering how updates will go with it.

I'll test it out right now and see how things go. I'll post back the results.


Cheers,


MC

Any luck with that ?

Hey qwijibow,

I must admit the above method seemed the easiest but it is possible to install from the CD.

I had to do a few extra things, which involved me downloading xdialog and winetools and installing a few things using winetools.

Without the files from winetools, Photoshop complained about the OS it was running on, even with modifying the wine config, I still couldn't get it to install from a standard Wine 20050211 installation, winetools however solves this problem (depends on xdialog) by allowing me to download and install some Windows components. I may trace through Setup.exe and figure out what files it was calling on and determining what was needed, there might be answers in the registry too that may help.

Unless you use winetools to get the necessary files, then Photoshop wasn't willing to install but it does work. Also winetools seems like a good compliment for wine so it's probably worth getting.

I also encountered a problem with Photoshop assuming I had a scanner attached to the computer, which I know I didn't, so it crashed the first time, but suceeded to go the second time, maybe find TWAIN drivers for wine if this is the case.

Cheers,

MC

Ahh, so i was half right... It did work, but your origonal methos is probably easyer, LOL.
Thanks for letting me know, im always inerested in how well the Wine project is doing.

Well, in all my time in Linux, I have never succeeded into getting Wine to work. But if Wine (VMware was recommended to me, but it costs and Wine's free and standard sorta) will run Macromedia Studio MX and PalTalk, then what am I doing in Windows????? Oh I also had major issues with my sound (the microphone and then of course cam and mp3 for some reason). But that's actually everything that stops me from ditching windows for ever.

MC,
Thanks bunches for this tutorial, I actually printed it out so I wouldn't lose it when I get a new machine (This one is too small for dual boot)

For me to install Photoshop 7:
just open Photoshop 7 installer
next
I Accept
next
next
[installs it]
close window
launch program


I have WINE 0.9.12, I've been doing this exact same thing to install Photoshop since last Feb. (2005)

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