Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Open PSD format on IPad

martial opened this issue on Jun 15, 2014 · 8 posts


SWAMP posted Mon, 16 June 2014 at 3:23 PM

Hey martial

The Photoshop format PSD is not native to ios so that’s why you’re running into a brick wall.

The native image formats that ios recognizes are, Jpeg, PNG, Tiff and Gif.

However you can open a PSD with a few apps using cloud services as a work around.

For instant, Photoshop Touch will open (but flatten and convert) a PSD file that has been uploaded to Adobes Creative Cloud.

Procreate will open a PSD from Dropbox (using the clipboard), but to save as PSD you must send the file back to Dropbox, (you can save it as a Jpeg or PNG to your device).

A real pain, and since the apps convert the PSD for their use anyway, you lose any advantage you might think you were getting.

 Instead, just convert your PSD’s in Photoshop to either high quality Jpeg’s or PNG’s (which has lossless compression) and all your apps will be happy.

 

 

Chuck