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I don't know of any other application-independent image format with good support for layers. Seriously. (Even Tiff doesn't really have good support for layers.)
by wtracy 10y ago
I don't know of any other application-independent image format with good support for layers. Seriously. (Even Tiff doesn't really have good support for layers.)
.PSD is tightly tied to Photoshop's internals, and .xcf is tightly tied to Gimp's internals. (The Gimp core developers explicitly recommend against using .xcf as an interchange format, even though the format has a fairly complete publicly available spec.) I've seen .gif images with multiple frames used as images with layers, but that forces every layer to have the same resolution, and of course limits you to an 8-bit color depth.
Supposedly the Gimp and Krita devs are collaborating on a new interchange format that will support things like layers, but I haven't heard any news about that in years.
- DiThi 10y agoWhat happened with the OpenRaster format?
- wtracy 10y agoOh, very cool, it looks like they are making good progress! Unfortunately, it looks like there's no support for it in Photoshop, and I doubt that's likely to change.
- boudewijnrempt 10y agoIt's doing fine. It's the native format for MyPaint, Krita supports it, Scribus supports it. Gimp's support is outdated, but that's because Gimp gets releases so rarely.
- DiThi 10y agoIt was kind of a rhetorical question. I looked it up after I sent the comment to confirm what you just said. I was answering to the last paragraph of the parent comment.