WMZ to PSD Converter

Compressed Windows Metafile (WMZ) is a Windows Metafile (WMF) that has been compressed with gzip. Like WMF, it can hold both vector drawing commands and bitmap data, so the artwork scales cleanly to any size. Microsoft used WMZ extensively for the clip-art libraries bundled with Microsoft Office, where the compression kept large collections of graphics small.

How to open a WMZ file?

The most direct way is to insert the file into a Microsoft Office application such as Word or PowerPoint, which decompress and render WMZ automatically on Windows.

Image programs that read WMZ include XnView MP, IrfanView, and CorelDRAW. Alternatively, because WMZ is a gzip archive, renaming it to .gz and extracting it with 7-Zip yields a plain WMF you can open in Inkscape. Our WMZ to PNG tool converts it in one step.

Developed by: Microsoft

Initial Release: 1998

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