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File Formats: PhotoShop 3.0 Format (PSD)

Photoshop 3.0 (PSD) is the format produced by the Adobe Photoshop graphics editor.

LEAD supports RLE Compression for this file format.

For PSD files, you can read the following modes with the following bits per pixel:

Mode Bits Per Channel LEAD Bits Per Pixel
Bitmap 0 1
Grayscale 8 8
Grayscale 16 16
CMYK 8 24
CMYK 16 24
Indexed Color 8 8
RGB with 3 & 4 Channels 8 24/32
RGB 16 64
Duotone 8 8 Grayscale
LAB 8 24
LAB 16 24

You can also read and write layers to this file with the following bits per pixel: 8 (GrayScale), 24, and 32.

The file constants associated with this file format are:

Constant Read Support Write Support Description
Psd 1, 8, 16, 24 BPP 1, 8, 24 BPP Adobe Photoshop 3.0.

Required DLL: Leadtools.Codecs.Psd.Dll. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.