photohop CC v19 installer for linux

This bash script installs Photoshop CC version 19 on your Linux machine using wine behind the scene and sets some necessary component up for best performance

🚀 Features

• downloads necessary component and installs them (vcrun,atmlib,msxml...)
• downloads photoshop.exe installer and installs it automatically
• creates photoshop commands and desktop entry
• configures wine for dark mode
• detects various graphic cards like (intel, Nvidia...)
• saves the downloaded files in your cache directory
• It's free and you will not need any license key
• works on any Linux distributions

⚠️ Requirements

1- use 64bit edition of your distro

2-make sure below packages are already installed on your Linux distro

• wine
• winetricks
• aria2c
• md5sum

if they are not already installed you can install them using your package manager for example in arch Linux

sudo pacman -Syy wine aria2

3- make sure you have enogh storage in your /home partition about 5 GiB

1 GiB will be free after installation

4- make sure you have internet connection and about 1.5 Gib traffic for downloading photoshop and its components at first time

💻 Installation

for components installation you have two options, using winetricks or using custom way. there are two installation scripts

• PhotoshopSetup.sh
• PhotoshopSetupCustom.sh

installer scripts use a virtual drive of wine and makes a new winprefix for photoshop

first of all you need to clone the repository with this command:

git clone https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux.git
cd photoshopCClinux

1️⃣ component installation using winetricks (Recommended)

for installing photoshop just run the bash script with below command it downloads and installs photoshop include its component using winetricks and configures wine automatically

chmod +x PhotoshopSetup.sh
./PhotoshopSetup.sh

2️⃣ component installation using custom script

for installing photoshop just run the bash script with below command it downloads and installs photoshop include its component and configures wine automatically

chmod +x PhotoshopSetupCustom.sh
./PhotoshopSetupCustom.sh

during installation please pay attention to script messages

NOTE : make sure OS version in wine is on windows 7

🍷 wineprefix Configuration

if you need to configure wineprefix of photoshop you can use winecfg.sh script just run below command

chmod +x winecfg.sh
./winecfg.sh

🔨 Tools

✨ Liquify Tools

as you know photoshop has many useful tools like `Liquify Tools`.

if you get some errors during working with these tools It may because of the graphics card.

photoshop uses the GPU to process these tools so before using these tools make sure that your graphics card (Nvidia, AMD) is configured correctly in your Linux machine.
The other solution is you can configure photoshop to use CPU for image processing. to do that, follow the below steps:

• go to edit tab and open preferences or [ctrl+K]
• then go to the performance tab
• in the graphics processor settings section, uncheck Use graphics processor

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📷 Adobe Camera Raw

another useful adobe software is camera raw if you want to work with it beside photoshop you must install it separately to do this, after photoshop installation run cameraRawInstaller.sh script with below commands:

chmod +x cameraRawInstaller.sh
./cameraRawInstaller.sh

then restart photoshop.you can open it from Edit >>Preferences >> Camera Raw

NOTE1: the size of camera raw installation file is about 400MB

NOTE2: camera raw performance depends on your graphic card driver and its configuration

♨️ Uninstall

for uninstall photoshop you can use uninstaller script with below commands

chmod +x uninstaller.sh
./uninstaller.sh

🔖 License