looking for java library to work with PSD format

java photoshop psd
vkolodrevskiy picture vkolodrevskiy · Dec 2, 2009 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I'm looking for a java library to work with PSD format(Photoshop). Any ideas?

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Monsieur Max picture Monsieur Max · Nov 6, 2012

Probably very late, but as this page is pretty high ranked on google when searching "java psd library" I'll share my experience.

-As Boris said the java-psd-library is read only. It has trouble reading recent CS4 format. If you ever find yourself with an error opening a psd file, opening it in Gimp 2.8 and saving it again will probably fix the issue.

-As I needed to work on layered graphic files, I took time to search for an alternative. The PSD format is proprietary and access to specs seems restricted. I found that the OpenRaster format is a pretty good alternative : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRaster It has open specs and it's really simple. It's a zipped file containing layers as png and a descriptor file. Gimp handles this format quite well and it's easy to export a psd file to an ora file. You can find some Java tools to manipulate them. It's a part of a more vast project which is still in Alpha : https://code.google.com/p/mediaz/

Hope it'll help people.

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