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PSD Viewing and Diffing

83 points by hodgesmr 12y ago

jscheel 12y ago
Heh, they added PSD just in time for a large number of people to jump to Sketch. All joking aside, kudos for adding this. It's great, if you can get people to store these large files in github.
bluetidepro 12y ago
I wonder if GitHub tries to make a stab at LayerVault [1] and compete with them? This could be a good first step. I wouldn't mind seeing LayerVault have some more competition in this space. I hope this is the first of many updates GitHub does trying to integrate more into version control for designers. [1] https://layervault.com/ https://layervault.com/
- artursapek 12y ago
  The irony is they are likely using LayerVault's PSD.rb http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/56891876898/psd-rb http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/56891876898/psd-rb
  - kellysutton 12y ago
    Which we then in turn host on GitHub. It's a Strange Loop.
  - Oompa 12y ago
    We're not
    - allang 12y ago
      PSD.rb is also not intended for production use. Among other inadequacies, it's painfully slow. That's what PSD Native is for: http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/82315160104/psd-rb-and-psd-native http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/82315160104/psd-rb-and-psd...
kosei 12y ago
I just wish companies would do this when they released new TOS policies.
- privong 12y ago
  Sounds like a good project idea... TOSdiff.
- Hovertruck 12y ago
  Meetup does something along these lines. Check out the revision history and first paragraph: http://www.meetup.com/terms/ http://www.meetup.com/terms/
- techpeace 12y ago
  You should also check out the excellent http://tosdr.org/ http://tosdr.org/ project.
- jmgrosen 12y ago
  Tumblr actually does this already -- they actually put them on Github itself, e.g. https://github.com/tumblr/policy/commit/35a9f50f9e8b1f4190577136f5c34fc3070a953e#diff-1a62394a86e1e4e28cc15658609096f6 https://github.com/tumblr/policy/commit/35a9f50f9e8b1f419057...
napkindrawing 12y ago
sigh I just wish PSD files weren't so horrendously, horrendously, horrendously, terrible with space. Our design people routinely have to deal with 300MB+ files for client work. I'm not convinced yet it's worth the benefits if the only way they can work w/git(hub) is with git-bigfiles or git-annex, or some convoluted custom workflow =(
- nikatwork 12y ago
  Image data is big by nature. If you are working with print-resolution files you can multiply that figure by ten. Each PS layer can contain a large amount of image data. It has nothing to do with the file format, if that is what you are implying.
jtreitz 12y ago
I wonder if PSD became their favorite file format https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#102 https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoad...
malkia 12y ago
I saw that our artists recently (or might've been longer ago that I knew) started using PSB files rather than PSD - Haven't checked on the actual differences.
- ijk 12y ago
  PSB stands for Photoshop Big: it's for Photoshop files larger than the arbitrary size of 30000x30000 pixels or 3 GB, whichever is smaller. PSB files can be up to 300,000 pixels wide. More information than you ever wanted about Adobe file formats: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/
joeyspn 12y ago
I suppose this is for small images... cos .psd's can grow to really heavy files. For instance a product presentation mockup, a single page design ready to be sliced (i.e. home.psd), or anything with "Photoshop 3D" can be easily over 100Mb...
heydenberk 12y ago
It would be great if they could cast some insight into how they're parsing and rendering the PSDs, and if they wrote any code to do so, they posted it on GitHub.
wldcordeiro 12y ago
I really dig this feature and would love to see it extended to AI files as well!
keelhaule 12y ago
I think that this is one of the first early results of the work that Github is doing after here 100$M series-A Github is transforming into a "document collaboration" platform, they will extend git usage to every single critical file format. Great move guys :)

83 points by hodgesmr 12y ago

Heh, they added PSD just in time for a large number of people to jump to Sketch. All joking aside, kudos for adding this. It's great, if you can get people to store these large files in github.

bluetidepro 12y ago

I wonder if GitHub tries to make a stab at LayerVault [1] and compete with them? This could be a good first step. I wouldn't mind seeing LayerVault have some more competition in this space. I hope this is the first of many updates GitHub does trying to integrate more into version control for designers. [1] https://layervault.com/ https://layervault.com/

artursapek 12y ago
The irony is they are likely using LayerVault's PSD.rb http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/56891876898/psd-rb http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/56891876898/psd-rb
- kellysutton 12y ago
  Which we then in turn host on GitHub. It's a Strange Loop.
- Oompa 12y ago
  We're not
  - allang 12y ago
    PSD.rb is also not intended for production use. Among other inadequacies, it's painfully slow. That's what PSD Native is for: http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/82315160104/psd-rb-and-psd-native http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/82315160104/psd-rb-and-psd...

kosei 12y ago

I just wish companies would do this when they released new TOS policies.

privong 12y ago
Sounds like a good project idea... TOSdiff.
Hovertruck 12y ago
Meetup does something along these lines. Check out the revision history and first paragraph: http://www.meetup.com/terms/ http://www.meetup.com/terms/
techpeace 12y ago
You should also check out the excellent http://tosdr.org/ http://tosdr.org/ project.
jmgrosen 12y ago
Tumblr actually does this already -- they actually put them on Github itself, e.g. https://github.com/tumblr/policy/commit/35a9f50f9e8b1f4190577136f5c34fc3070a953e#diff-1a62394a86e1e4e28cc15658609096f6 https://github.com/tumblr/policy/commit/35a9f50f9e8b1f419057...

napkindrawing 12y ago

sigh I just wish PSD files weren't so horrendously, horrendously, horrendously, terrible with space. Our design people routinely have to deal with 300MB+ files for client work. I'm not convinced yet it's worth the benefits if the only way they can work w/git(hub) is with git-bigfiles or git-annex, or some convoluted custom workflow =(

nikatwork 12y ago
Image data is big by nature. If you are working with print-resolution files you can multiply that figure by ten. Each PS layer can contain a large amount of image data. It has nothing to do with the file format, if that is what you are implying.

jtreitz 12y ago

I wonder if PSD became their favorite file format https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#102 https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoad...

malkia 12y ago

I saw that our artists recently (or might've been longer ago that I knew) started using PSB files rather than PSD - Haven't checked on the actual differences.

ijk 12y ago
PSB stands for Photoshop Big: it's for Photoshop files larger than the arbitrary size of 30000x30000 pixels or 3 GB, whichever is smaller. PSB files can be up to 300,000 pixels wide. More information than you ever wanted about Adobe file formats: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/

joeyspn 12y ago

I suppose this is for small images... cos .psd's can grow to really heavy files. For instance a product presentation mockup, a single page design ready to be sliced (i.e. home.psd), or anything with "Photoshop 3D" can be easily over 100Mb...

heydenberk 12y ago

It would be great if they could cast some insight into how they're parsing and rendering the PSDs, and if they wrote any code to do so, they posted it on GitHub.

wldcordeiro 12y ago

I really dig this feature and would love to see it extended to AI files as well!

keelhaule 12y ago

I think that this is one of the first early results of the work that Github is doing after here 100$M series-A Github is transforming into a "document collaboration" platform, they will extend git usage to every single critical file format. Great move guys :)