What is a .PSD file?
PSD is Adobe Photoshop’s native layered image format. Created and opened by Adobe Photoshop.
- Did you know
- PSD is Photoshop’s native format; Photoshop first shipped in 1990 and effectively created the digital-imaging industry.
- Photoshop began as a program called Display, written by Thomas Knoll on a Macintosh Plus and developed with his brother John of Industrial Light & Magic.
- Before Adobe took over, early copies shipped bundled with Barneyscan slide scanners; Adobe bought the rights outright in 1995.
- Analyser spots a .PSD file by its signature bytes
38 42 50 53- ASCII for "8BPS".
- What Analyser reads
- Identify Adobe project files and read their metadata: Photoshop (PSD, PSB), Illustrator (AI), InDesign (INDD), After Effects (AEP, AEPX, AET) with composition / layer / effect and asset extraction, Premiere Pro and Elements (PRPROJ, PREL) with sequence and media counts, XD, Animate (FLA), and Lightroom.
- Depth of analysis
- .PSD is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .PSD file
- Drag a .PSD file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.