On Sunday 28 May 2006 01:59, Máirín Duffy duffy@redhat.com wrote:
To be fair about the PSD format wiki design mockups.... You need to show/hide layers in that PSD to be able to view the entire design. An open format that Photoshop can actually handle like PNG wouldn't work, right, since it's flat[1]? The GIMP opens the PSD and is able to display these layers, no problem. Since they were created in Adobe Photoshop (I'm assuming)... Photoshop doesn't exactly allow you to save as or export to XCF (the GIMP's native format.)
This is a common case. If the original proprietary program (Photoshop) can't directly save to an open format, then the contributor should use another tool (the GIMP) to convert the file from a proprietary format (PSD) to the best open format possible (XCF). It is the responsibility of the original contributor to make this conversion. Consider it to be the price of using a proprietary program.