According to a survey implemented by Novell Adobe Photoshop is the most missed software product for Linux users. I can definitely approve that ’cause I don’t often need Windows but for Photoshop CS I have to switch on my Windows PC.

Indeed Gimp is a great graphics editor but not sufficiant. Maybe it has the same features and you can do almost the same stuff with it like with Photoshop but if you’ve worked for years with Photoshop, like I did, you’re kinda familiar with its usage. I utterly would spend more time on looking for a similar function in Gimp than just using Photoshop on Windows.

Google is funding work to ensure the Windows version of Adobe Systems’ Photoshop and other Creative Suite software can run on Linux computers. For working efficiently on that project Google hired developers from Codeweavers. The very well-known open-source project Wine is produced and supported by Codeweavers.

Some time ago also Adobe itself tried to make a running Linux solution of Photoshop - but unfortunately without success. According to my opinion it’s great that specialist make sure that Photoshop will run perfectly under wine in future.

In marked contrast to other people on the Internet I can’t find something bad concerning the fact Google will fund for improve the Wine/Photoshop combination. Althougth it’s no act of charity by Google - they’re just trying to invest into the right projects. From my point of view projects being open source getting supported by Google is rather good than bad.