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How do you manage your PSD-files working with C1?

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Hey everybody!

I tried to search for a similar topic, but didn't find anything..

I am new to C1 (just downloaded a trial) and at the moment I'm not sure, this is the App I want to manage my pictures with.
99% of C1 are just great, this App has everything I miss when using the bridge, but one thing is driving me nuts.

How do you manage your PSD-files?

Sometimes I don't finish a PSD on one day. In the bridge I just navigate to my PSD folder and open it in PS.
But when I export a raw file to PSD Is not added to my session (on my HDD its in a subfolder of 'Output').

How do you reopen a PSD-file? Do you use the finder? The bridge? Or is it possible within C1?

Thank you for your advice in advance! 😄

Kind regards

Cornelius
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Hi Cornelius,

    Welcome to the forum and Capture One world. I have a surprise for you, but probably not a pleasant one.

    CO7 does not support opening/importing PSD files. Yes, it can export to that format, but not read it. Hence, it does not show up in the Browser when you open a folder with PSDs in it. Tiff files are on the list of supported file formats.
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  • NNN635265109264336876
    Thank you Paul!

    Thats disappointing. ☹️ How do you manage your PSD-files then?

    kind regards

    Cornelius
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Save as TIFF. And re-import the tiff into Capture 1. Others may have more information but so far I don't recall missing anything by not saving as PSD. A PSD might just be a TIFF by another name. And if I recall Adobe on the TIFF format.
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  • sizzlingbadger
    Quote from: Jeff Schewe

    PSD is now a bastardized file format that is NOT a good idea to use. Even the Photoshop engineers will tell you that PSD is no longer the Photoshop "native" file format. It has no advantages and many disadvantages over TIFF.

    TIFF is publicly documented, PSD is not. That makes TIFF a preferred file format for the long term conservation of digital files.

    TIFF uses ZIP compression for max compression, PSD uses RLE which if you save without the Max compatibility will be a bit smaller, but at the risk of not being able to be used by apps, like Lightroom.

    TIFF can save EVERYTHING a PSD can save including layers, paths, channels, transparency, annotations and can go up to 4 GIGS in file size. TIFF can save all the color spaces PSD can. The ONLY thing I can think of that PSD can save that currently TIFF can't save is if you Save out of Camera Raw a cropped PSD, you can uncrop the PSD in Photoshop CS, CS2 or 3. That's one tiny obscure thing that PSD can do that TIFF currently doesn't. How many people even knew that let alone use it?

    PSD used to be the preferred file format back before Adobe bastardized it for the Creative Suite. The moment that happened, PSD ceased to be a Photoshop "native" file format. PSB is the new Photoshop "native" file format for images beyond 30,000 pixels. And , at the moment, only Photoshop can open a PSB.

    Getting back to the fist point, Adobe can do anything including stopping support for PSD because it's a proprietary file format. TIFF is public, even if it's owned by Adobe (by virtue of the Aldus purchase). Even if Adobe went belly up tomorrow, TIFF would continue.

    And, let me be blunt, anybody who thinks PSD is "better" than TIFF is ignorant of the facts. If Adobe would let them, the Photoshop engineers would tell you to quit using PSD. Lightroom for the first beta did NOT support PSD and Hamburg fought tooth and nail to prevent having to accept PSD. He blinked, but you still can't import a PSD without Max compat enabled-which basically makes it a TIFF with a PSD extension.

    Look, I'll make it REAL simple...

    TIFF = Good
    PSD = Bad

    Ok?
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  • Permanently deleted user
    @sizzlingbadger
    For me, completely OK 😉
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