I occasionally get PSD files sent to me by web designers. My usual goal is just to slice out the bits I need when putting together a web page. The problems is that lately I have been getting PSD files from a designer where I have having difficulty getting what I need from the file. I believe this designer is using a feature called "Layer Styles" (although I am not a Photoshop user so that may be incorrect).
http://files.pixelwareinc.com/screenshot.psd Is an example of a file like this. Now when I use ImageMagick on this file to convert it to a PNG it spits out each layer. This is actually very useful as I often want each layer as a separate file so I can extract only what I need. It also outputs a composite image of all the layers. So based on the above PSD file I get: http://files.pixelwareinc.com/screenshot.png as the composite image. The problem is that the layer files is spits out are the layers without the Layer Styles applied. So for example the following is the layer for the main stock art image: http://files.pixelwareinc.com/layer.png Compare this to the composite image and note how this layer no longer has rounded corners. Now my assumption is that since it is spitting out a composite image correctly then it can understand the "Layer Styles" feature. But how do I get it to spit out each layer with the right layer styles applied? Or perhaps is it only able to spit out the composite image because maybe the PSD format embeds a final composite image and maybe ImageMagick really can't understand these "Layer Styles"? If ImageMagick is not capable of processing these files correctly does anybody know of any open source software that is. I have tried Gimp and no luck with it either. Any pointers would be GREATLY appreciated. Eric _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
