psd to png - software or website that converts all the components?

Question

I have a PSD file with a lot of components. The only site I found for converting it to components is Zamzar, but it doesn't allow me to download all of the components at once and the other sites/software I have found only give me a flattened image as a single PNG. Does someone know of a website or software for this?

Answer 1

1. ImageMagick

This one is a command-line tool, available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. To export layers separately to individual PNG files, you can run the following command after installing it:

convert Boring.psd Cool.png

That will result in Cool-0.png, Cool-1.png, etc. for each layer.

For a flattened image you need to add the corresponding switch:

convert Boring.psd -flatten Cool.png

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2. GIMP:

Some Photoshop fans call it an advanced MS Paint! But it is a decent image editing tool, released under LGPLv3 and GPLv3+ licenses and is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows, and it's free!

Here's a tutorial on how to convert each layer of a PSD to PNG files using GIMP.

Alternatively, you can install Export_Layers plugin to do it faster.

Answer 2

You could use GIMP in combination with the Export Layers as PNG plugin.
However, installing plugins in GIMP is not an easy task.
Luckily I found another way of doing what you want:

PSDParse _{by Telegraphics}

It...

• ... extracts all layers to png images
• ... doesn't flatten the psd file
• ... extracts all layers at the same time
• ... keeps the name of the layer
• ... is available for windows and osx, but unfortunately not for linux
• ... is gratis (aka "Free")

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1. Go to the website, and download the Windows (32 bit) version: ^{(I assume you're using windows, as you failed to specify the OS in the question)}
   
2. Extract the contents of the downloaded psdparse-3.6f1-win32.zip (right-click --> "Extract All...") to a new folder
3. Go to the folder where you extracted the zip file. You should see 2 files:
   
4. Shift+rmb (Right Mouse Button) on an empty area, and click on "Open command window here"
5. In the command window, type psdparse and press Enter. You should see this:
   
6. Type "psdparse -w [location of psd file]", for example: psdparse -w C:\example.psd.
7. It should extract the layers and save them as png files in the folder "[name of psd file]_png" in the same location as the psd file, for example: C:\example_png\
8. That's it!

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_{Source: Take a psd and export all the layers into separate image files without using Photoshop - Super User}

Answer 3

There is a PSD.rb which is the file parser for Photoshop written in Ruby.

To get the list of components, you can write a script like:

require 'psd'

PSD.open('path/to/file.psd') do |psd|
  # Get information about all the available layer comps
  puts psd.layer_comps
end

To save same component, you can write:

# Save a layer comp
psd.tree.filter_by_comp("Version A").save_as_png('./Version A.png')

# Generate PNG of individual layer group
psd.tree.children_at_path("Group 1").first.to_png

To save a specific slice into PNG, it's:

psd.slices_by_name('Logo').first.save_as_png('Logo.png') #=> writes Logo.png

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Another tool to consider is ag-psd, it's JavaScript library for reading and writing PSD files. Example script:

import * as fs from 'fs';
import { readPsd } from 'ag-psd';

var buffer = fs.readFileSync('my-file.psd');
var psd = readPsd(buffer);

console.log(psd);

fs.writeFileSync('layer-1.png', psd.children[0].canvas.getBuffer());