best way to add a layer to a photoshop file

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Re: best way to add a layer to a photoshop file (Gimp::Fu) by beech (Parson) on Aug 07, 2017 at 22:42 UTC
Hi, photoshop finds PDL::IO::Image which says it supports reading photoshop files ... not sure what kind of editing it supports, maybe you can find out I do know Gimp supports editing psd files and there is a perl module to interface to it called Gimp it comes with examples that mention layers https://metacpan.org/pod/release/ETJ/Gimp-2.32/examples/example-fu/source	[reply]
Re: best way to add a layer to a photoshop file by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 07, 2017 at 21:27 UTC
PSD is a proprietary format and therefore maybe not even legal to write software against without a license from Adobe. The CPAN seems to have nothing to do what you want, near as I can tell, though there is a bit of meta-munging available with Image::ExifTool so you could examine that code if you wanted to try to get something going.	[reply]
Re: best way to add a layer to a photoshop file by zentara (Cardinal) on Aug 08, 2017 at 12:03 UTC
Hi, ImageMagick also handles Photoshop files, but it seems pretty complicated. See layered psd files . I would ask this on the imagemagick forum. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. ..... an animated JAPH	[reply]