About the Psd file format
- Name
- Adobe Photoshop Document
- Extension
- .psd
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Description
- A PSD file is an image file created by Adobe Photoshop, a professional image-editing program often used to enhance digital photos and create web graphics. It is the native format used to save files in Photoshop. PSD files may include image layers, adjustment layers, layer masks, annotations, file information, keywords, and other Photoshop-specific elements. They are commonly created and shared among graphics professionals.
- MIME Type
- image/vnd.adobe.photoshop
- Sample
- sample.psd
- Wikipedia
- .psd on Wikipedia
PSD( Photoshop Document) is a layered raster graphic file. It was developed by Adobe for macOS, and Microsoft Windows, and is used in Adobe Photoshop. The file format is natively used in Photoshop to save data. Users of PSD can work on layers of the specific images after they have been saved. The PSD format is suitable for storing information that contains essential features of Adobe Photoshop.
The file extension used is .psd. It has a weight and a height of 30000 pixels with the length been up to two gigabytes. PSD file can holds details like shapes, layers, and color, making it a suitable choice for photo editing.
The image can be shared after the layers of the image are flattened, and its converted to TIFF, JPEG, or GIF file format. Once a file has been converted to other formats, you can’t reverse the conversion to work on the layers The file can hold vector layers, an aspect that makes it suitable to transport data from Adobe Illustrator, to other image editing programs.
Since its development and release, Microsoft has been improving it in terms of editing colors. Photoshop was Ported to Microsoft Windows in 1993. The act led to PSD growing and hitting the editing world drastically since then.
Due to the popularity gained, the PSD file has been supported by most image editing softwares. Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Illustrator apps can hold or transfer data to PSD file format.
