{"id":40350,"date":"2018-10-02T03:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=40350"},"modified":"2018-09-30T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T11:00:14","slug":"adobe-photoshop-psd-to-gimp-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/adobe-photoshop-psd-to-gimp-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Photoshop PSD to Gimp Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adobe Photoshop PSD to Gimp Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

As we’ve said before, to study file extensions, as boring as it might seem, is to study Information Technology. Today’s foray into this arcane wooooooorrrrllllld is, for us, with the *.psd<\/a> file extension. We’re here to tell you that this *.psd is a very important file extension for web development work.<\/p>\n

Do you know why<\/a>? That would be<\/a>? Interesting<\/a>? It’s the Adobe file extension invented for … anyone, anyone<\/a>? Yes, Cecil B de Milne, it is Photoshop<\/a>, well done! That powerhouse of web design and graphic artist tool.<\/a><\/p>\n

Photoshop has become such an iconic desktop application other applications to come along later made sure they could open the *.psd files created by Photoshop. This is how “industry standards” develop over time, commercially, rather than by decree. Who decrees on the Internet<\/a>? W3C<\/a>, that’s not<\/font> WHO<\/a> … but who … chortle, chortle.<\/p>\n

In this context it’s not much of a surprise that our personal favourite image editor, Gimp<\/a>, can read many forms of *.psd data files, as we show you today us doing in a stream of consciousness PDF slideshow<\/a> for your perusal. Take a look at the left hand side of today’s tutorial picture<\/a>, too, and you’ll see how all pervasive *.psd files are with web related activities, with a Mac OS X “find \/ -name ‘*.psd’ 2> \/dev\/null” listing of what was found “hanging around” over the years on this MacBook Pro laptop, that are *.psd files from various pursuits, work and blog related alike. To know *.psd is, truly, to know a lot about web design. If you don’t believe me, try …<\/p>\n


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