Can you edit PSD without Photoshop?

**Purple_Blood** · 04-18-2008, 12:20 AM

Is there any other software instead of photoshop that we ca use to edit PSD files? Can we do that in GIMP? Please Help!

**ooyes** · 04-18-2008, 05:35 AM

yes i think the GImp can do that http://www.gimp.org/

its open souce

**A Monkey Typing** · 04-18-2008, 09:02 AM

Fireworks also opens some .psd format files

**hawksbmx** · 04-18-2008, 04:00 PM

though i would recommend getting photoshop as I think it is much better and can do alot more stuff and easier to use than GIMP.

**CapnChkn** · 04-22-2008, 12:41 AM

PSD or PS are the native formats of Photoshop. This is the industry standard, like PK is the standard for zip compression, Adobe is the standard for .pdf documentation, and x86 is the standard architecture of computer hardware. You can open and edit these images in almost any graphics editor, but you can't save it as the same unless you are editing in Photoshop.

**Purple_Blood** · 04-26-2008, 10:22 AM

How do you edit the TEXT layer in GIMP?

**davemies** · 04-26-2008, 02:59 PM

look in the gimp help files for TEXT ?!

**BrandBurnMedia** · 04-28-2008, 11:58 PM

Yep as noted above Gimp would be next choice if not using Photoshop, Fireworks is great too but I've never used it much on psd's so not sure.

**Kerrick** · 04-29-2008, 01:10 AM

GIMP can open and save PSD files, but they always have issues with text layers, usually being unable to edit them, sometimes seeing it as a bitmapped layer instead.

**murphy20** · 04-29-2008, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CapnChkn

You can open and edit these images in almost any graphics editor, but you can't save it as the same unless you are editing in Photoshop.

Hate to burst your bubble but your wrong. I edit and create PSD files with the GIMP and save them as PSD files.

**wisdomtool** · 04-29-2008, 08:32 AM

I think now there is a photoshop online which can do basic editing, you may want to try it out

**Purple_Blood** · 05-01-2008, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrandBurnMedia

Yep as noted above Gimp would be next choice if not using Photoshop, Fireworks is great too but I've never used it much on psd's so not sure.

What is Fireworks?

And murphy20 are you able to edit Text Layers?

**neener** · 01:34 AM

You can open them in Paint Shop Pro, i think.

Edit
Yeah, you can. I just tried it out. ^_^ Just that some of the features are unsupported.

**reality21** · 05-01-2008, 04:23 AM

wow really? i was gna say no you need photoshop. lol. thanks guys

**Mystical Pippin** · 05-02-2008, 03:39 PM

I think Fireworks is an art program that does flash and other cool special effects. It's kind of like Photoshop isn't it?

I know you can also use ImageReady to open and manipulate Photoshop files and you can still save them as .psd files too.