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 **** 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 **** on abode.reg and edit it, Select All the text (Ctrl + A) then Copy it (Ctrl + C).
Open up a new notepad **** 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.
