The next step was to send these files into Photoshop for final polishing, which is the next editing step I would take on any other workstation. Installing a Wacom Tablet on a Steam Deck
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While I couldn’t get the Bluetooth to work (it is possible, I just didn’t want to spend more time on it), connecting the tablet via the USB cable allowed it to install and work absolutely perfectly, including enabling it as a touch surface for even more control options.
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Since I wanted to do some proper dodging and burning and since I was running Windows, I wondered if I could connect the latest Wacom Intuos Pro tablet to the device. Using Lightroom, I was able to quickly cull and base edit all the files I wanted to work on with the device for this test. To my surprise, Lightroom worked flawlessly and easily imported 20GB worth of RAW files that I had shot on a Nikon Z6 II. I even was able to install a few plugins for Photoshop including the Retouch4Me suite and the RetouchingToolkit panels.Īdobe Lightroom Classic working perfectly on a Steam Deck running Windows 11 The process, once Windows was operating correctly, was pretty smooth.ĭespite running Windows from an external hard drive, there wasn’t any noticeable lag in the system, and Photoshop and Lightroom installed surprisingly fast.
Thanks to the Docking Station, I was able to connect the SSD that housed Windows, a keyboard, mouse, and every other peripheral I needed to start the next step of installing Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. The results vastly exceeded expectations. This process definitely added some levels of difficulty, but thankfully with the help of Donte Maxwell, I finally got it to run. Granted, I was going about it in a particularly tricky way by using a Windows Virtual Machine (VM) to create an ISO that I loaded onto an external SSD so that I could dual boot the device and have Windows installed and operating entirely through the SSD and not on the Steam Deck (as I didn’t want to break anything permanently). Creating the Windows ISOĭespite these resources, it still took me three days to get it running correctly.
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I won’t get into the details of how to do it as there are dozens of video guides and instruction pages on how to set up Windows on the Steam Deck, (including official drivers for Windows from Valve directly). Installing Windows and Adobe Photoshop on a Steam Deck So, the next logical step was to just go ahead and dual boot the device with Windows 11 and see if that method would let me install Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. While there actually is a port of Photoshop CC available for Linux devices, after an entire day of trying, it was just way too over my head. Once I managed this, the next thought was if I could get Photoshop running on the Steam Deck. Editing Images with the Steam Deck as a “Desktop” Still, this allowed me to work in mirrored mode or even extend the desktop in a dual monitor setup that used both the Steam Deck screen and my monitor, making the task of retouching a lot easier. Through this process I found that the Steam Deck can output 4K resolution, albeit at a maximum of 30hz. USB hub and docking station for the Steam Deckįor the next step, I went ahead and ordered a USB Hub/Dock station for the Steam Deck, which allowed me to plug in multiple wired devices like a physical keyboard, mouse, external hard drives, a memory card reader, and even connect a monitor using the HDMI port.
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