On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Richard Smoot wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
> >On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Pete Theisen wrote:
> >>Eben King wrote:
> >>>On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Pete Theisen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Trying to figure out the GIMP for another.
> >>>>
> >>>Well, what do you want to do in it that you can't?
> >>>
> >>Thanks for the reply. I would like to open my .PSD Photoshop files.
> >>Doesn't seem to recognize the format, sigh. I have been going back to
> >>the dark side and saving them as JPEG as a work-around.
> >
> >.PSD is Photoshop's own, proprietary format. I don't expect it to be
> >supported by non-Adobe apps (or those whose developers have paid Adobe's
> >bribe^Wlicensing fee.
> >
> Have you tried to open PSD's in gimp. I don't have any to try.
I found the files listed on
http://forums.cdcovers.cc/archive/index.php/t-121737.html and opened the
first one. Son of a gun, it _does_ open. It opened as the text against
nothing, so I'm not sure if that's what it's supposed to look like.
> My PaintShop pro in Windows could open them, but was not able to play with
> the separate layers.
Maybe Adobe gave out the specs for reading them (.psd files) but not for
writing them?
> I think GIMP can open them. Nothing except Adobe will be able to work with
> the layers.
Or if you do change the layers, you'll have to save in .xcf (Gimp native).
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