opening a photoshop document in gimp

[jerryroy]

i want to know if there is a way to open a photoshop document in gimp

[Half-Left]

Yes you can but it doesn't show them proper if you use layer effects from Photoshop. Just open it like a normal file.

[Merk42]

I believe fonts get rasterized too, unless that's changed in 2.6?

[VeeDubb]

I don't know about the fonts, but from my little bit of testing, 2.6 handles fully layered PSD files with no problem.

[banago]

GIMP 2.4 does not open properly PSD docs. Let's hope version 2.6 will fix this, haven't tried it yet.

[stephanvaningen]

I've tried to open a .psd file with Gimp 2.6 without any success.

I've also tried other options:
- Krita (from kde) - no success
- Scribus - no success
- convert - no success
- plugin-installation GIMP - no success

Does anybody have a simple step-by-step or (last resort) an online function to upload a psd and download a png or eps or something?

[VeeDubb]

Hhmmm.... Not sure why you had trouble with 2.6.

I'm running Gimp 2.6.0, compiled from source, on Ubuntu 8.04 64bit(fully updated).

I have found that this version of Gimp easily opens even highly complicated, fully layered PSD files (I have tried several).

It even properly displays guidlines that are set up in the PSD file for publishing purposes, that are not a part of the graphic. (I was very happy about this in fact)

[stephanvaningen]

Aha, sounds interesting, maybe something wrong with my GIMP installation? I get error message: "Error loading PSD file: Unsupported color mode: CMYK" when opening the .psd-file.

It shows a preview however.

The computer it is running on is Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid beta, updated to-date.
My installation comes from a dist-upgrade from 8.04

[Zimmer]

Support for cmyk in GIMP seems to be the problem..
http://registry.gimp.org/node/2011

There may be a plug in that could help from the post above.
also this one...maybe
http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml

I expect the psd files you can access are those saved in a non cmyk mode.
BTW, came across this...
http://rants.scribus.net/2006/06/03/why-no-cmyk-in-gimp-is-a-good-thing-now/

[stephanvaningen]

Support for cmyk in GIMP seems to be the problem..
http://registry.gimp.org/node/2011

There may be a plug in that could help from the post above.
also this one...maybe
http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml

I expect the psd files you can access are those saved in a non cmyk mode.
Yeah, thanks but I already tried that plugin, no luck :-/

The link to the 'improved' I have not tried yet: ... pending,

[VeeDubb]

That's it for sure. It's the CMYK issue. The only other thing I could suggest would be the updated 2.6.1 version of gimp, which is supposed to include an updated PSD import filter. However, it will probably still choke on CMYK until we get all the way to version 3.0 and GEGL is fully implemented. (I believe that's when we're supposed to get CMYK and high-bit depth support)

[kayosiii]

Gimp currently supports 8bit greyscale , 8bit pallete colour images, or 24bit RGB images currently. Other colour spaces seem to fail - though 48 and 64 bit images seem to be downsampled on import. Also features added past photoshop 6 aren't supported - I think....

Hope that helps. With Krita you could try going out of photoshop as a multilayer Tiff.

[smartboyathome]

Gimp currently supports 8bit greyscale , 8bit pallete colour images, or 24bit RGB images currently. Other colour spaces seem to fail - though 48 and 64 bit images seem to be downsampled on import. Also features added past photoshop 6 aren't supported - I think....

Hope that helps. With Krita you could try going out of photoshop as a multilayer Tiff.

Thats not true starting with GIMP 2.6. GIMP now has GEGL, which allows it to do CMYK as well as RGB.

[VeeDubb]

Thats not true starting with GIMP 2.6. GIMP now has GEGL, which allows it to do CMYK as well as RGB.

sorrry. no.

GEGL will 'eventually' allow CMYK and high bit depth images. At the moment, GEGL does very little, and is only integrated into gimp on the most basic levels. In fact, it's usage is still optional, and doesn't include anything that can't be done without it. Some types of filters seem to work a little better with GEGL, but that's it.

We probably won't see reliable CMYK or high bit depth until 3.0