Gee's Blog World: In a pinch, PSD Viewer might save you... or it might not

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

In a pinch, PSD Viewer might save you... or it might not

Ah, viewers! Whether you love the fact that they exist, or hate the fact that we live in a world that necessitates them, file viewers are a vital part of any computer user's tool kit. The number of times I've seen sent a Microsoft Word file and not been able to open it... ugh!

Fortunately I have Photoshop, but I'm sure there are lots of people out there that don't -- that's where PSD Viewer comes in! It's not fantastic -- check out the sample image after the break -- and boy is it slow, but if you don't own Photoshop... well, beggars can't be choosers, right?

You can't do much more than resize (which takes a veritable eternity) and rotate the image. The main feature is that you can export the PSD to a JPEG -- which you can then edit or manipulate in another package!

Again, it's not great, but it's better than nothing.

For some reason, PSD Viewer sometimes makes things look really weird. I have no idea why converts pictures to green and pink. It's not even inverted... it's just... very green and pink. It does look kinda cool though...