Jeff Monks wrote: > Quoth Francis: > >> I just got a new 100gig hard drive for my (old) laptop and (having just >> had a rather unpleasant virus fiasco) I'd like to switch to Ubuntu, but >> not unless I can run Photoshop and or rawshooter/lightroom. Is that >> possible? > > Photoshop runs pretty well under Linux using Crossover Office > (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/). Linux is actually > becoming a decent platform for photo editing - with Crossover, you can use > Photoshop; there's a native Linux version of Bibble; and while GIMP isn't > Photoshop, it is quite powerful. > > You can always download a trial version of Crossover to see if RawShooter > works, too. > >
I'd tend to disagree. Until Linux has decent colour management capabilities, it's not really a good platform for photo editing since you will not be able to adequately profile your display. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

