PSD to PNG Converter

About the PSD to PNG Converter

Open Photoshop .psd and large-document .psb files in any browser — no Photoshop, no account — and save them as PNG or JPG. The picture you get is the flattened image Photoshop stored in the file — the picture Photoshop showed when it was saved, transparency included (CMYK files are turned into RGB approximately).

The Layers list shows every layer and group with a thumbnail. Switch layers off (a watermark, a background, a text layer) and the picture is rebuilt from the remaining layers before you save it, or save any layer — or all of them as a ZIP — as separate PNG files. Everything is read on your device; nothing is uploaded.

Common uses

• Viewing a PSD sent by a designer or client on a computer or phone without Photoshop.
• Getting a PNG or JPG of a mock-up, poster or social-media design for a website or a message.
• Pulling logos, icons and other assets out of a layered file as separate transparent PNGs.
• Saving a design without a layer — a watermark, a placeholder text, a background.

What it reads

The file is read as Adobe’s Photoshop File Formats Specification describes it: PSD and PSB (Large Document Format), bitmap, greyscale, indexed, RGB, CMYK, Lab, duotone and multichannel documents in 1, 8, 16 and 32 bits per channel, with raw, RLE and ZIP-compressed data. The Library of Congress format description notes that PSD documents are limited to 30,000 pixels a side and PSB to 300,000. Layers are read with their names, groups, visibility, opacity and fill, blend modes, clipping, layer and vector masks (density and feather included), text and smart-object layers (as Photoshop drew them) and solid-colour and gradient fills.

Saved picture or rebuilt from layers

Photoshop normally stores a flattened copy of the whole picture in the file (the Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility preference). That copy is what you see and save until you change a layer, so it is exact. When you switch layers off — or the file was saved without the flattened copy — the picture is rebuilt here: layers are drawn bottom to top with their opacity, masks and blend modes (all 27 of Photoshop’s modes, with the formulas of the W3C Compositing and Blending specification where Photoshop uses them), groups and clipping masks included.

Some things are not redrawn — adjustment layers, layer effects (shadows, strokes, glows, overlays), pattern fills, Blend If and knockout — and gradient fills that the file stores only as settings are drawn approximately. The page lists what it left out for each picture, so you know when the rebuilt version differs from Photoshop.

Colours

RGB files tagged with a colour profile such as Adobe RGB (1998), Display P3 or ProPhoto RGB are converted to sRGB, so the PNG looks the same in every browser and app; or keep the original colours and embed the profile in the PNG for colour-managed print work. CMYK documents are converted with the simple ink formula, without a print profile, so colours can differ from Photoshop’s. 16- and 32-bit documents are saved with 8 bits per channel; 32-bit (HDR) values are shown with the sRGB curve, values above white are clipped.

Limitations

• Adjustment layers and layer effects are not redrawn when you change layers (the saved picture includes them).
• Output has 8 bits per channel; 16-bit PNG output is not offered.
• Files up to 1 GB and documents up to 150 megapixels; pictures rebuilt from layers above 50 megapixels are saved at a reduced size. 20 files at a time.
• Text layers are saved as Photoshop rendered them; fonts are not needed and the text cannot be edited.

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