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Author Topic: How to open a Photoshop file and save it in another format?  (Read 8,909 times)

SilasSpencer

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I know this isnt a VB.NET category but does anyone know of a way to open a photoshop image (.psd) through vb.net code and work with it? Basically I just want to open the .psd file and save it as a .gif or .jpg
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Re: How to open a Photoshop file and save it in another format?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2016, 11:11 PM »
You might have better luck just using a commandline call to something like ImageMagick in your VB.NET program as opposed to handling the file natively in VB.net (might not even be feasible).

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Re: How to open a Photoshop file and save it in another format?
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2016, 10:13 PM »
Welcome to DC, SilasSpencer!

I have not tested it, but they say they can do what I think you really are asking for:

http://www.zamzar.com/convert/psd-to-jpg/

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Re: How to open a Photoshop file and save it in another format?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2016, 06:24 PM »
Adobe Photoshop have a COM interface for Photoshop they refer to the "scripting plugin" you can control all of photoshops functionality through this interface.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1536

Adobe supply documentation for using the COM interface, the Object Model and some scripting examples.

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