Format
Adobe Photoshop
Summary
- Name
- Adobe Photoshop
- Identifiers
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- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.adobe.photoshop-image
- MIME: image/vnd.adobe.photoshop
- PUID: x-fmt/92
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
- Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X. Files natively produced by Adobe PhotoDeluxe (extension pdd) also appear to be based upon the Adobe Photoshop file format.
- File extensions
-
psd,pdd - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
- Supported by
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
Relationships
- Is previous version of
Internal signatures
Adobe Photoshop PSD
- Note
- BOF: '8BPS', version 1 (0x0001), 6 reserved null bytes https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
38425053000100000000000000- Endianness
- Little-endian
Changelog
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Updated in V96
- Release date
- 21 January 2020
Adobe Photoshop: Added new extension pdd and explanatory note to format description. Submitted by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Updated in V90
- Release date
- 30 March 2017
Adobe Photoshop: Linked to file format specification in signature description.
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Updated in V79
- Release date
- 6 November 2014
Adobe Photoshop: Updated format description, documentation and corrected mimetype information to apple type. Submitted by the British Library.
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Updated in V62
- Release date
- 28 August 2012
Adobe Photoshop: MIME-Type information added.
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Added in V34
- Release date
- 2 April 2010
Adobe Photoshop: Signature developed through DROID 5.0 research