Install Photoshop CS6 with wine

This is a quick tutorial of how to install Photoshop CS6 on Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS), as all the tutorials I found were outdated. This requires a working Photoshop CS6 installer (exe).

Install wine & winetricks:

sudo apt install wine winetricks

Configure a 32-bit wine environment where we will be installing Photoshop CS6:

WINEARCH=win32 winetricks atmlib gdiplus msxml3 msxml6 vcrun2010 ie6 fontsmooth-rgb gecko

Install Photoshop CS6:

cd /home/user/path/to/installer
WINEARCH=win32 wine <setup.exe>

If you want a desktop/menu entry you can create a file called Photoshop.desktop and save it in ~/Desktop/ or save it in ~/.local/share/applications/ to be added to your applications:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Photoshop CS6
Exec=wine "C:\Program Files\Photoshop CS6\Photoshop.exe"
Icon=<path-to-png-icon>
Type=Application
Categories=Wine;

Substitute <path-to-png-icon> with a path to a PNG icon, and don’t forget to chmod +x <desktop file>.

If you saved the file to ~/.local/share/applications/ then it should now appear in the application list.