PPM to PSD Converter

Portable Pixmap Format (PPM) is an uncompressed, raster-based colour image format from the Netpbm family. A PPM file stores a plain header followed by RGB values for every pixel, either as readable ASCII text or as binary data. Because nothing is compressed or discarded, PPM is deliberately simple for programs to read and write, at the cost of very large file sizes.

How to open a PPM file?

Most operating systems do not open PPM by default. XnView MP and GIMP both read it, and on Windows IrfanView opens PPM as well.

PPM is mainly used as an intermediate format in image-processing pipelines rather than for storage or sharing. Because of its size, convert PPM to a compressed format before publishing it online — try our PPM to JPG converter. Related Netpbm types are PBM (bitmap), PGM (greyscale), and PNM (any of the three).

Developed by: Jef Poskanzer / Netpbm Project

Initial Release: 1988

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