Comments on: View PSD files without Photoshop in Mac OS X

By: Mark Reed

Mark Reed — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:36:14 +0000

There is a great solution on the PC side – paintshoppro.

It does everything PS does – much cheaper

Great app.

I wish they had it for MAC!!!

By: Weav

Weav — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:29:28 +0000

I’m on windows 7

so i’m missing features like this, but i believe photoshop still is the best and there is no competitor to adobe

By: Christian Parker

Christian Parker — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:13:55 +0000

GraphicConverter also opens and converts PSD files

By: Raiders

Raiders — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:25:27 +0000

Photoshop has become very bloated, unless you have a brand new computer with 4GB of RAM it’s not even usable anymore.

What happened to Adobe? They used to be the best, it seems like since they merged with Macromedia they’ve gone downhill. Thankfully Apple is picking up their slack with this type of feature in QL and Preview. For image editing I just use Pixelmator now… sorry Adobe you snooze you lose!

I’m crossing my fingers that future version of Preview or iPhoto will allow decent image editing features, that would be AWESOME! The color correction is already great… just need some text, layers, brushes, and they’ll have a Photoshop killer.

By: IQ Nill

IQ Nill — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:55:23 +0000

Yes, the power of Quick View astounds me.
I can read Word documents without Word installed – amazing stuff.
When it comes to multi-layered PSDs and TIFFs, often only one layer shows up on a transparent background – good enough for daily use, quick slideshows to clients – not the best option.
My conclusion can only be that QV actually reads layers – amazing.