psd-reader

Read and display Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files directly in the web browser.

Features

• Fast and lightweight
• Asynchronous and segment-based decoding (no UI-blocking)
• Reads all supported formats (Greyscale, Bitmap, Indexed, RGB, CMYK, DuoTone, TriTone, QuadTone, Multichannel and Lab)
• Reads all color depths (1/8/16/32 bits)
• Handles alpha channel as well as transparency for indexed mode
• De-matte (matte removal) processing of images with alpha-channel (eliminates "halo" problems)
• Supports RLE compressed and uncompressed image data
• By default, converts all formats to RGBA so it can be used directly with canvas
• Canvas helper method with optional scaling and high-quality down-sampling
• Optional gamma correction
• By default, auto-corrects display gamma for 32-bit color mode
• Access to the original channel bitmaps (decompressed if needed)
• Access to raw meta and header data
• Access to resource chunks (incl. ID locator method)
• Passive load mode allowing parsing to be invoked manually later
• Validates and performs error checks
• Works in all major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE/Edge, Opera, Safari).
• For client-side use
• An original parser implementation built from scratch.
• No dependencies

Documentation

The project is documented and is available as html in the docs folder

Tutorials and general information is included in the HTML docs.

Usage

Create a new instance, pass in an URL (or an array buffer), and a callback:

var psd = new PsdReader({url: "path/to/file.psd", onLoad: myCallback});

In your callback you can access the RGBA data:

function myCallback(e) {
    var bitmap = this.rgba;
}

To get a canvas version of the data:

function myCallback(e) {
    var canvas = this.toCanvas();
    ...
}

An already existing ArrayBuffer containing the raw PSD file can be used instead of an URL:

var psd = new PsdReader({buffer: psdArrayBuffer, onLoad: myCallback});

There is additional access to the original channel bitmap data in it's native format (8-bit, 16-bit etc.). The header information can be accessed through the info object:

var width     = psd.info.width;
var height    = psd.info.height;
var depth     = psd.info.depth;
var layers    = psd.info.chunks[3];		// the layers area

var channel0  = psd.bitmaps[0];	        // in native format (but uncompressed)
...

Locate internal resources (low-level):

var icc = psd.findResource(1039);       // find resource with resource ID

Requirements

A browser with support for HTML5 Canvas and typed arrays.

There are no dependencies.

See also

• canvas-to-tiff

Compatibility

These are generally non-problematic, but something to have in mind:

• Does not intend to parse individual layers
• PSD files must be saved in (the default) compatibility mode (see html docs for details)
• ICC profiles are not parsed/applied (see docs for details)

License

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Contact us if you need a commercial license.

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