psd-tools 1.9.24

Features

Supported:

• Read and write of the low-level PSD/PSB file structure

• Raw layer image export in NumPy and PIL format

Limited support:

• Composition of basic pixel-based layers

• Composition of fill layer effects

• Vector masks

• Editing of some layer attributes such as layer name

• Blending modes except for dissolve

• Drawing of bezier curves

Not supported:

• Editing of layer structure, such as adding or removing a layer

• Composition of adjustment layers

• Composition of many layer effects

• Font rendering

Installation

Use pip to install the package:

pip install psd-tools

Getting started

from psd_tools import PSDImage

psd = PSDImage.open('example.psd')
psd.composite().save('example.png')

for layer in psd:
    print(layer)
    layer_image = layer.composite()
    layer_image.save('%s.png' % layer.name)

Check out the documentation for features and details.

Contributing

See contributing page.

1.9.24 (2023-01-17)

• [psd] Support float RGB values (#350)

• [psd] Workaround stroke class ID (#346)

• [ci] Update CI configuration (#347)

• [composite] Fix group clipping (#336)

1.9.23 (2022-09-26)

• [api] Add bbox invalidation when toggling layer visibility (#334)

1.9.22 (2022-09-09)

• [psd] Add support for v3 gradient map adjustment layer (#330)

1.9.21 (2022-06-18)

• [api] Fix incorrect has_effects behavior (#322)

• [composite] Improve blending numerical stability (#321)

• [composite] Improve non-RGB modes and transparency (#319, @Etienne-Gautier)

• [psd] Workaround assertion error in broken file (#320)

1.9.20 (2022-05-16)

• [ci] Update CI configuration (#313 #314)

• [composite] Fix composite errors (#312)

• [psd] Suppress vowv tagged blocks (#306)

1.9.19 (2022-04-15)

• [composite] Fix rasterized shape composite (#301 #302)

1.9.18 (2021-08-20)

• [api] Fix missing effect attributes (#284)

• [package] Support additional platforms (i686, aarch64, universal2, win32)

• [package] Drop py36 support

1.9.17 (2021-01-15)

• [api] Fix incorrect fill layer parse (fix #254)

1.9.16 (2020-09-24)

• [package] Drop py27 and py35 support

• [psd] Workaround Enum bug (fix #241)

• [composite] Fix transparency issue (fix #242)

• [composite] Fix mask disable flag (fix #243)

• [api] Add workaround for creating PSB (fix #246)

• [api] Fix incorrect adjustment parse (fix #247)

1.9.15 (2020-07-17)

• [composite] Fix ignored clip layers for groups.

• [composite] Fix out-of-viewport stroke effect.

1.9.14 (2020-07-10)

• [api] Bugfix for PSDImage composite layer_filter option.

• [api] Bugfix for transparency and alpha distinction.

• [psd] Rename COMPOSITOR_INFO.

• [composite] Fix stroke effect target shape.

1.9.13 (2020-05-25)

• [api] Bugfix for PSDImage init internal.

1.9.12 (2020-05-20)

• [psd] Bugfix for CurvesExtraMarker read.

1.9.11 (2020-05-01)

• [composite] Fix layer check.

1.9.10 (2020-04-21)

• [psd] Fix engine data parser.

1.9.9 (2020-03-30)

• [composite] Fix stroke effect argument.

1.9.8 (2020-03-18)

• [composite] Fix incorrect fill opacity handling in compositing.

• [composite] Fix incorrect alpha for patterns.

1.9.7 (2020-03-17)

• [composite] Fix path operation for merged components.

• [composite] Fix vector mask compositing condition.

1.9.6 (2020-03-16)

• [composite] Fix incorrect alpha channel handling in composite.

1.9.5 (2020-03-11)

• [api] Add ignore_preview option to PSDImage.composite.

• [composite] Improve stroke effect composition for vector masks.

• [composite] Avoid crash when there is an erroneous subpath.

• [composite] Workaround possible divide-by-zero warn in stroke composition.

• [composite] Fix incorrect pattern transparency handling.

• [composite] Fix ignored effects in direct group composition.

• [composite] Fix incorrect opacity handling for clip layers.

1.9.4 (2020-03-11)

• [compression] Security fix, affected versions are 1.8.37 - 1.9.3.

1.9.3 (2020-03-10)

• [composite] Fix memory corruption crash for pattern data in PSB files.

• [psd] Add image data pretty printing.

1.9.2 (2020-03-03)

• [psd] Add missing resource ID.

• [psd] Fix pretty printing regression.

• [psd] Fix big tag key for linked layers.

• [psd] Support frgb tag.

• [psd] Support sgrp metadata key.

• [psd] Support patt tag.

• [psd] Workaround unknown engine data.

1.9.1 (2020-02-28)

• [psd] Minor bugfix.

1.9.0 (2020-02-26)

• [composite] Implement NumPy-based compositing functionality.

• [composite] Support blending modes other than dissolve.

• [composite] Support blending in RGB, CMYK, Grayscale.

• [api] Introduce NumPy array export method.

• [api] Drop deprecated methods from v1.7.x such as as_PIL.

• [api] Deprecate compose method.

• [compression] Rename packbits to rle.

• [compression] Improve RLE decode efficiency.

• [tests] Additional compositing tests.

1.8.38 (2020-02-12)

• [composer] fix crash when gradient fill is in stroke.

1.8.37 (2020-02-07)

• [compression] Remove packbits dependency and introduce cython implementation.

• [deploy] Move CI provider from Travis-CI to Github Actions.

• [deploy] Start distributing binary wheels.

1.8.36 (2019-12-26)

• [psd] add safeguard for malformed global layer mask info parser.

1.8.35 (2019-12-26)

• [api] remove duplicate has_mask() definition.

• [composer] fix empty effects check.

1.8.34 (2019-11-28)

• [api] fix compose() arguments.

• [psd] fix attrs version dependency.

1.8.33 (2019-11-28)

• [api] add include_invisible option to Group.extract_bbox.

• [psd] fix deprecated attrs api.

1.8.32 (2019-11-28)

• [psd] fix 16/32 bit file parsing bug introduced in 1.8.17.

1.8.31 (2019-11-27)

• [psd] bugfix reading psb.

• [psd] bugfix reading slices resource.

• [security] update dependency to pillow >= 6.2.0.

1.8.30 (2019-09-24)

• [psd] workaround for reading less-than-4-byte int in malformed psd files.

1.8.29 (2019-09-10)

• [composer] fix vector mask bbox in composition.

1.8.28 (2019-09-09)

• [api] fix Effects.__repr__() when data is empty.

1.8.27 (2019-08-29)

• [api] accept encoding param in PSDImage.open and PSDImage.save.

• [deploy] bugfix travis deployment condition.

1.8.26 (2019-08-28)

• [composer] support group mask.

1.8.25 (2019-08-07)

• [api] change return type of PSDImage.color_mode to enum.

• [api] support reading of bitmap color mode.

• [api] support channel option in topil() method.

1.8.24 (2019-07-25)

• [composer] experimental support of commutative blending modes.

1.8.23 (2019-06-24)

• [composer] fix clipping on alpha-less image;

• [composer] fix stroke effect for flat plane;

• [composer] workaround for insufficient knots;

• [composer] fix for custom color space.

1.8.22 (2019-06-19)

• fix pass-through composing bug;

• fix alpha blending in effect;

• fix vector mask composition;

• experimental support for shape stroke;

• experimental support for stroke effect.

1.8.21 (2019-06-18)

• change effect property return type from str to enum;

• improve gradient quality;

• support fill opacity and layer opacity;

• add tmln key in metadata setting.

1.8.20 (2019-06-13)

• support gradient styles.

1.8.19 (2019-06-11)

• fix broken psd_tools.composer.vector module in 1.8.17;

• experimental support for color noise gradient;

• bugfix for clip masks;

• bugfix for CMYK composing.

1.8.17 (2019-06-05)

• move psd_tools.api.composer module to psd_tools.composer package;

• support 19 blending modes in composer;

• support fill opacity;

• fix image size when composing with masks;

• rename TaggedBlockID to Tag;

• rename ImageResourceID to Resource;

• add bytes mixin to Enum constants;

• replace Enum keys with raw values in psd_tools.psd.base.Dict classes.

1.8.16 (2019-05-24)

• fix broken group compose in 1.8.15;

• fix missing pattern / gradient composition in vector stroke content.

1.8.15 (2019-05-23)

• coding style fix;

• fix compose() bbox option.

1.8.14 (2019-04-12)

• add dependency to aggdraw;

• support bezier curves in vector masks;

• support path operations;

• fix compose(force=True) behavior;

• fix default background color in composer;

• improve pattern overlay parameters support;

• fix gradient map generation for a single stop.

1.8.13 (2019-04-05)

• fix engine_data unknown tag format;

• fix compose for extra alpha channels;

• workaround for pillow 6.0.0 bug.

1.8.12 (2019-03-25)

• add apply_icc option in pil io.

1.8.11 (2019-03-14)

• introduce terminology module;

• reduce memory use in read;

• add main testing.

1.8.10 (2019-02-27)

• fix PSB extn key size bug.

1.8.9 (2019-02-21)

• documentation updates;

• introduce Artboard class.

1.8.8 (2019-02-20)

• revert package name to psd_tools;

• prepare merging to the main repo.

1.8.7 (2019-02-15)

• minor bugfix.

1.8.6 (2019-02-14)

• change _psd pointer in PSDImage;

• add version property;

• support fill effects in composer.

1.8.5 (2019-02-05)

• change tagged block/image resource singleton accessor in user API;

• add documentation on iterator order;

• fix export setting 1 big key config;

• fix computer info big key config.

1.8.3 (2019-02-01)

• add channel size checking in topil;

• add mlst metadata decoding;

• fix key collision issue in descriptor;

• performance improvement for packbit encoding/decoding;

• drop cython dependency in travis config;

• implement thumbnail, is_group, and parent methods in PSDImage.

1.8.0 (2019-01-24)

• major API changes;

• package name changed to psd_tools2;

• completely rewritten decoding subpackage psd_tools2.psd;

• improved composer functionality;

• file write support;

• drop cython compression module and makes the package pure-python;

• drop pymaging support.

1.7.30 (2019-01-15)

• composer alpha blending fix;

• documentation fix.

1.7.28 (2019-01-09)

• support cinf tagged block.

1.7.27 (2018-12-06)

• add missing extra image resource block signatures.

1.7.26 (2018-12-03)

• move psd_tools tests under tests/psd_tools.

1.7.25 (2018-11-27)

• fix alpha channel visibility of composed image.

1.7.24 (2018-11-21)

• fix unit rectangle drawing size.

1.7.23 (2018-11-20)

• fix ignored visibility in bbox calculation.

1.7.22 (2018-10-12)

• drop py34 support;

• fix tobytes deprecation warning.

1.7.21 (2018-10-10)

• fix gradient descriptor bug.

1.7.20 (2018-10-09)

• fix coloroverlay bug;

• fix gradient angle bug;

• fix curves decoder bug.

1.7.19 (2018-10-02)

• fix descriptor decoder.

1.7.18 (2018-09-26)

• add shape rendering in compose();

• add grayscale support.

1.7.17 (2018-09-21)

• fix has_pixel() condition.

1.7.16 (2018-08-29)

• fix fill opacity in compose();

• workaround for broken PrintFlags.

1.7.15 (2018-08-28)

• fix color overlay issue in compose().

1.7.14 (2018-08-24)

• fix verbose arg for python 3.7 compatibility.

1.7.13 (2018-08-10)

• fix has_pixel() for partial channels;

• support color overlay in compose().

1.7.12 (2018-06-25)

• fix mask rendering in compose (Thanks @andrey-hider and @nkato).

1.7.11 (2018-06-11)

• unicode bugfixes.

1.7.10 (2018-06-06)

• fix descriptor decoding errors;

• minor bugfixes.

1.7.9 (2018-06-05)

• fix UnicodeError in exif;

• workaround for irregular descriptor name;

• add undocumented extn tagged block decoding;

• move duplicated icc module to subpackage;

• support PIL rendering with extra alpha channels.

1.7.8 (2018-05-29)

• update documentation;

• fix PEP8 compliance;

• rename merge_layers to compose.

1.7.7 (2018-05-02)

• fix white background issue in as_PIL().

1.7.6 (2018-04-27)

• add quality testing;

• fix disabled mask.

1.7.5 (2018-04-25)

• fix has_mask() condition;

• add mask composition in merge_layers();

• fix mask display.

1.7.4 (2018-03-06)

• fix infinity loop in print_tree().

1.7.3 (2018-02-27)

• add vector origination API;

• fix shape and vector mask identification;

• change enum name conversion;

• update docs.

1.7.2 (2018-02-14)

• add adjustments API;

• add mask API;

• bugfix for tagged_blocks decoders.

1.7.1 (2018-02-08)

• add mask user API;

• add layer coordinate user API;

• add vector mask and vector stroke API;

• cleanup user API;

• add automatic descriptor conversion.

1.7.0 (2018-01-25)

• cleanup user API organization;

• remove json encoder api;

• make cli a package main.

1.6.7 (2018-01-17)

• workaround for anaconda 2.7 pillow;

• bbox existence checkf.

1.6.6 (2018-01-10)

• experimental clipping support in merge_layer();

• revert as_PIL() in AdjustmentLayer.

1.6.5 (2017-12-22)

• Small fix for erroneous unicode path name

1.6.4 (2017-12-20)

• Add all_layers() method;

• Add _image_resource_blocks property;

• Add thumbnail() method.

1.6.3 (2017-09-27)

• documentation updates;

• github repository renamed to psd-tools2;

• AdjustmentLayer fix.

1.6.2 (2017-09-13)

• layer class structure reorganization;

• add Effects API;

• add TypeLayer API methods.

1.6 (2017-09-08)

• PSDImage user API update;

• user API adds distinct layer types;

• Sphinx documentation.

1.5 (2017-07-13)

• implemented many decodings of image resources and tagged blocks;

• implemented EngineData text information;

• user API for getting mask and patterns;

• user API to calculate bbox for shape layers;

1.4 (2017-01-02)

• Fixed reading of layer mask data (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• Python 2.6 support is dropped;

• Python 3.6 support is added (thanks Leendert Brouwer);

• extension is rebuilt with Cython 0.25.2.

1.3 (2016-01-25)

• fixed references decoding (thanks Josh Drake);

• fixed PIL support for CMYK files (thanks Michael Wu);

• optional C extension is rebuilt with Cython 0.23.4;

• Python 3.2 support is dropped; the package still works in Python 3.2, but the compatibility is no longer checked by tests, and so it can break in future.

• declare Python 3.5 as supported.

1.2 (2015-01-27)

• implemented extraction of embedded files (embedded smart objects) - thanks Volker Braun;

• optional C extension is rebuilt with Cython 0.21.2.

• hg mirror on bitbucket is dropped, sorry!

1.1 (2014-11-17)

• improved METADATA_SETTING decoding (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• layer comps decoding (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• improved smart objects decoding (thanks Joey Gentry);

• user API for getting layer transforms and placed layer size (thanks Joey Gentry);

• IPython import is deferred to speedup psd-tools.py command-line utility;

• _RootGroup.__repr__ is fixed;

• warning message building is more robust;

• optional C extension is rebuilt with Cython 0.21.1.

1.0 (2014-07-24)

• Fixed reading of images with layer masks (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• improved mask data decoding (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• fixed synchronization in case of 8B64 signatures (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• fixed reading of layers with zero length (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• fixed Descriptor parsing (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• some of the descriptor structures and tagged block constants are renamed (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• PATH_SELECTION_STATE decoding (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• the library is switched to setuptools; docopt is now installed automatically.

0.10 (2014-06-15)

• Layer effects parsing (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• trailing null bytes are stripped from descriptor strings (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• “Reference” and “List” descriptor parsing is fixed (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• scalar descriptor values (doubles, floats, booleans) are now returned as scalars, not as lists of size 1 (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• fixed reading of EngineData past declared length (thanks Carlton P. Taylor);

• “background color” Image Resource parsing (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• psd_tools.decoder.actions.Enum.enum field is renamed to psd_tools.decoder.actions.Enum.value (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• code simplification - constants are now bytestrings as they should be (thanks Evgeny Kopylov);

• Python 3.4 is supported.

0.9.1 (2014-03-26)

• Improved merging of transparent layers (thanks Vladimir Timofeev);

• fixed layer merging and bounding box calculations for empty layers (thanks Vladimir Timofeev);

• C extension is rebuilt with Cython 0.20.1.

0.9 (2013-12-03)

• psd-tools.py command-line interface is changed, ‘debug’ command is added;

• pretty-printing of internal structures;

• pymaging support is fixed;

• allow ‘MeSa’ to be a signature for image resource blocks (thanks Alexey Buzanov);

• psd_tools.debug.debug_view utility function is fixed;

• Photoshop CC constants are added;

• Photoshop CC vector origination data is decoded;

• binary data is preserved if descriptor parsing fails;

• more verbose logging for PSD reader;

• channel data reader became more robust - now it doesn’t read past declared channel length;

• psd-tools.py –version command is fixed;

• lsdk tagged blocks parsing: this fixes some issues with layer grouping (thanks Ivan Maradzhyiski for the bug report and the patch);

• CMYK images support is added (thanks Alexey Buzanov, Guillermo Rauch and https://github.com/a-e-m for the help);

• Grayscale images support is added (thanks https://github.com/a-e-m);

• LittleCMS is now optional (but it is still required to get proper colors).

0.8.4 (2013-06-12)

• Point and Millimeter types are added to UnitFloatType (thanks Doug Ellwanger).

0.8.3 (2013-06-01)

• Some issues with descriptor parsing are fixed (thanks Luke Petre).

0.8.2 (2013-04-12)

• Python 2.x: reading data from file-like objects is fixed (thanks Pavel Zinovkin).

0.8.1 (2013-03-02)

• Fixed parsing of layer groups without explicit OPEN_FOLDER mark;

• Cython extension is rebuilt with Cython 0.18.

0.8 (2013-02-26)

• Descriptor parsing (thanks Oliver Zheng);

• text (as string) is extracted from text layers (thanks Oliver Zheng);

• improved support for optional building of Cython extension.

0.7.1 (2012-12-27)

• Typo is fixed: LayerRecord.cilpping should be LayerRecord.clipping. Thanks Oliver Zheng.

0.7 (2012-11-08)

• Highly experimental: basic layer merging is implemented (e.g. it is now possible to export layer group to a PIL image);

• Layer.visible no longer takes group visibility in account;

• Layer.visible_global is the old Layer.visible;

• psd_tools.user_api.combined_bbox made public;

• Layer.width and Layer.height are removed (use layer.bbox.width and layer.bbox.height instead);

• pil_support.composite_image_to_PIL is renamed to pil_support.extract_composite_image and pil_support.layer_to_PIL is renamed to pil_support.extract_layer_image in order to have the same API for pil_support and pymaging_support.

0.6 (2012-11-06)

• psd.composite_image() is renamed to psd.as_PIL();

• Pymaging support: psd.as_pymaging() and layer.as_pymaging() methods.

0.5 (2012-11-05)

• Support for zip and zip-with-prediction compression methods is added;

• support for 16/32bit layers is added;

• optional Cython extension for faster zip-with-prediction decompression;

• other speed improvements.

0.2 (2012-11-04)

• Initial support for 16bit and 32bit PSD files: psd-tools v0.2 can read composite (merged) images for such files and extract information (names, dimensions, hierarchy, etc.) about layers and groups of 16/32bit PSD; extracting image data for distinct layers in 16/32bit PSD files is not suported yet;

• better Layer.__repr__;

• bbox property for Group.

0.1.4 (2012-11-01)

Packaging is fixed in this release.

0.1.3 (2012-11-01)

• Better support for 32bit images (still incomplete);

• reader is able to handle “global” tagged layer info blocks that was previously discarded.

0.1.2 (2012-10-30)

• warn about 32bit images;

• transparency support for composite images.

0.1.1 (2012-10-29)

Initial release (v0.1 had packaging issues).