PSD

Writable

image

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

DevILOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1
GIMPOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
ImageMagick (WebAssembly)Open sourcereads and writes · Apache-2.0
KritaOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
libexiv2Open sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
Q141647655Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
AbydosOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
Apache TikaOpen sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0
ConverseenOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ExifToolOpen sourcereads · Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later
imageioOpen sourcereads · 2-clause BSD License
KuickShowOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
LibreOffice DrawOpen sourcereads · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
nomacsOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
OpenImageIOOpen sourcereads · BSD licenses
PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Q141647660Open sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
VRenamerOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ACD FotoCanvas Litereads and writes
ACDSeereads and writes · proprietary license
ACDSee 5reads and writes
ActiveSharereads and writes
Adobe Fireworks CS6reads and writes
Adobe Illustratorreads and writes · proprietary license
Adobe ImageReadyreads and writes
Adobe Photoshop Elementsreads and writes
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0reads and writes
Adobe Photoshop Lightroomwrites · shareware
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2writes
Affinity Photoreads and writes
Axialis IconWorkshopreads and writes
Corel Painterreads and writes
Corel Painter Essentials 3reads and writes
Corel Painter Essentials 4reads and writes
Corel Painter version 12reads and writes
Corel Painter X3reads and writes
DIAdemwrites
Fireworks MX 2004writes
FotoFinish 3.01reads and writes

And 91 more in the JSON record.

Convert it

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To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
BMP 5.0	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
PNG	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.psd out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
PNG	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Quite OK Image Format	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
TIFF	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.psd out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
TIFF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
PDF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Partial	in browser The image is embedded in a PDF page.
AVIF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.psd out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Reduced to 256 colours.
ICO	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Icons are limited to 256 × 256 pixels.
JFIF 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.psd out.jpg` Lossy compression.
JFIF 1.02	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
JPEG XL	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.psd out.webp` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), WebAssembly engines (ImageMagick, FFmpeg, Pandoc, 7-Zip, GDAL, Assimp, resvg), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-26.

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