Adobe Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X. Files natively produced by Adobe PhotoDeluxe (extension pdd) also appear to be based upon the Adobe Photoshop file format.

Identify it

Extensions	`.psd.pdd`
MIME types	`image/vnd.adobe.photoshop`
Signatures	`38425053000100000000000000` at byte 0 (Adobe Photoshop PSD) `38425053` at byte 0
PRONOM	`x-fmt/92`
Wikidata	`Q2141903`
Library of Congress	`fdd000523`
Apple UTI	`com.adobe.photoshop-image`

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Open it

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ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
KritaOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
libexiv2Open sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
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Apache TikaOpen sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0
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ExifToolOpen sourcereads · Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later
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nomacsOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
OpenImageIOOpen sourcereads · BSD licenses
PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
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VRenamerOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ACD FotoCanvas Litereads and writes
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Adobe Photoshop Elementsreads and writes
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0reads and writes
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2writes
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Corel Painter Essentials 3reads and writes
Corel Painter Essentials 4reads and writes
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And 90 more in the JSON record.

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.psd out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.psd out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.psd out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.psd out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.psd out.webp` Lossy compression.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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