DCS to PSD Converter

Kodak Digital Camera System (DCS) is the proprietary raw file format produced by Kodak’s professional DCS-series digital cameras, such as the DCS Pro 14n and DCS Pro SLR. Built on the TIFF structure, a DCS file preserves the unprocessed data straight from the camera sensor along with the exposure, white balance, and lens settings used at capture. Like all raw files, DCS acts as a digital negative that can be re-developed without quality loss.

How to open a DCS file?

Kodak’s own DCS Photo Desk software is discontinued, so most photographers now use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw to open and develop DCS images.

RawTherapee and darktable also read DCS, and XnView MP is useful for quick previews. Because DCS is an old proprietary format, converting your archive to DNG or to JPG is a good way to keep it accessible.

Developed by: Eastman Kodak Company

Initial Release: 1991

Photoshop Document (PSD) is the default file type for Adobe Photoshop, a powerful and complex graphic design program. PSD can store an image along with a complex array of its corresponding layers, vector paths, objects, filters, and more, all in one file! PSD allows a user to make surgical edits on individual components of an image or a graphic design while retaining the file’s information in an accessible format. One drawback of PSD is that it can be large and unwieldy.

How to open a PSD file?

Adobe Photoshop is the most common program to open a PSD file. A free alternative to Adobe products is the GNU Image Manipulation Program, otherwise known as GIMP.

Due to the size of PSD files, they are not easy to transport, store, or share. To overcome this, PSD is often converted to a file format that can compress the data. Most often, the conversion is to JPEG, which offers lossy compression, or PNG, which offers lossless compression.

Developed by: Adobe Inc.

Initial Release: 19 February 1990

Useful links:

https://www.lifewire.com/psd-file-2622194