Reading PSD file format

Question

I wonder if this is even possible. I have an application that adds a context menu when you right click a file. It all works fine but here is what I\'d like to do:

If

Answer 1

For people who are reading this now: the link from accepted answer doesn't seem to work anymore (at least for me). Would add a comment there, but not allowed to comment yet - hence I'm adding a new answer.

The working link where you can find the psdplugin code for Paint.Net: https://github.com/PsdPlugin/PsdPlugin

Answer 2

FastStone does this pretty efficiently. They do not have their libraries availaible, but I guess you can contact them and see if they can help.

Check out their website: http://www.faststone.org/download.htm

Answer 3

You can use GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET API to render your PSD files as images (JPG, PNG, BMP) in your application using a few lines of code.

C#

ViewerConfig config = new ViewerConfig();
config.StoragePath = "D:\\storage\\";

// Create handler
ViewerImageHandler imageHandler = new ViewerImageHandler(config);

// Guid implies that unique document name 
string guid = "sample.psd";

// Get document pages as images
List<PageImage> pages = imageHandler.GetPages(guid);

foreach (PageImage page in pages)
{
    // Access each image using page.Stream
}

For more details and sample code, please visit here. Disclosure: I work as a Developer Evangelist at GroupDocs.

Answer 4

Well, there's a PSD plugin for Paint.NET which I think is Open-Source which you might want to take a look at for starters:

http://frankblumenberg.de/doku/doku.php?id=paintnet:psdplugin#download

Answer 5

The ImageMagick libraries (which provide bindings for C#) also support the PSD format. They might be easier to get started with than getting into the Paint.NET code and also come with a quite free (BSD-like) license.

A simple sample (found at http://midimick.com/magicknet/magickDoc.html) using MagickNet would look like this:

using System;

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    MagickNet.Magick.Init();
    MagicNet.Image img = new MagicNet.Image("file.psd");
    img.Resize(System.Drawing.Size(100,100));
    img.Write("newFile.png");
    MagickNet.Magick.Term();
}

Note: MagickNet has moved to http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/ImageMagick_in_VBNET.aspx