Adobe Photoshop PSD Codec for Windows 7, Vista and XP

64-bit and-32 bit Photoshop PSD decoder for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3.

Enables support for Adobe Photoshop PSD and Adobe PhotoDeluxe PDD documents in Windows Explorer, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Live™ Photo Gallery and, on Windows 7, also within Windows Media Center and Media Player 12, with full 64-bit support.

Genuine codecs go beyond simple "thumbnail providers" and enable the full end-user experience, with full-size viewing in built-in image viewers, Windows Photo Viewer slideshows, Explorer metadata display and Windows Search integration.

Our Adobe Photoshop PSD codec supports Photoshop documents saved with the "Maximum Compatibility" option, which contains a pre-rendered preview with all layers flattened. For documents that were not saved with the Maximum Compatibility option in Photoshop, our codec attempts to perform simple layer blending and renders the image anyway in most cases, with reasonable fidelity. As such our codec successfully opens the majority of existing PSD files, from Photoshop 4.0 to Photoshop CS5.

The FastPictureViewer PSD Codec also performs color space conversion and bit depth adjustments when necessary, so it will successfully open most 1 bit, 8 bit and 16 bit PSDs (Bitmap, Grayscale, Indexed, RGB, CMYK and L*A*B files), as well as 32-bit RGB and gray scale images, and render a reasonable preview when the image does not already contains a flattened layer.

Integration with Windows Search let Windows Vista and Windows 7 users locate PSD files instantly from any Explorer search box: find files by Title, Author, Keywords/Tags etc. directly within Windows Explorer!

EXIF and XMP metadata are exposed as well as any embedded ICC profile, enabling color-managed previewing of PSD files in Windows Photo Viewer, Photo Gallery, Media Center 7 and our own FastPictureViewer Professional.

For best compatibility and performances with 3rd-party applications and image decoders, it is recommended to save PSD files with the Maximum Compatibility option is enabled in Photoshop's File Handling preferences.

Adobe PhotoDeluxe PDD images are also supported, as well as PSDs created by Corel Photo Paint X3.

Check out a quick video demo showing the benefits of the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack: