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This came up a couple months ago. I really wish there was a standard open format that did most of the things PSD does. I had asked the folks at Procreate if the
by egonschiele 6y ago
This came up a couple months ago. I really wish there was a standard open format that did most of the things PSD does. I had asked the folks at Procreate if they'd design something, since they are sort of a challenger to Photoshop, but they said it wasn't something they wanted to do.
- iggldiggl 6y agoWhere this might get tricky is if you seriously want to support non-destructive editing as well, because in that case any filter that can be applied in non-destructive mode effectively needs to become part of the file format specification, too.
- wongarsu 6y agoYou could store filters generic enough that any software can skip over filters it doesn't recognize (e.g. you store filter type uuid, filter data length, then arbitrary filter parameters), have some open registry where you can get official filter uuids in return for an example implementation. Of course not everyone will register every filter, so the format should probably store the image once unfiltered and once with all filter applied, that way if a program doesn't recognize or implement some filter it can still fall back to the destructively filtered version. But of course that increases file size, which may or may not be a concern.
- preommr 6y agoProcreate is 10$ for a one-time purchase. PS is 13$/mo. Actually, if you got just PS it would be 30$/mo. And even then I've seen people complain that procreate is too expensive. I don't really have a point other than design tools and their pricing is a pet issue of mine and I like bringing up how insane it is at any given chance.
- hallarempt 6y agoWe started working on OpenRaster for that: https://www.openraster.org/ https://www.openraster.org/ -- but it's not really moving along very well.