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Format

Adobe Photoshop

Summary

Name
Adobe Photoshop
Identifiers
  • 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

  • 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.

  • Updated in V90

    Release date
    30 March 2017

    Adobe Photoshop: Linked to file format specification in signature description.

  • 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.

  • Updated in V62

    Release date
    28 August 2012

    Adobe Photoshop: MIME-Type information added.

  • Added in V34

    Release date
    2 April 2010

    Adobe Photoshop: Signature developed through DROID 5.0 research