We Need A Standard Layered Image Format

Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by robbles on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @08:18PM (#5635729)

Couldn't someone come up with a relatively sane schema for storing the same information that a PSD would contain in a SQLite database?

That way, you could standardize on the semantics that are already documented and familiar to other developers, but avoid the difficulties of the file format, which seem to be the issue here.

* disclaimer: I've never had to write a PSD-parser, I'm just going on hearsay.

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Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by jcampbell1 on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @12:59AM (#5636542)

Photoshop layers have all the nastiness of threaded comments plus the added complexity of "blending". I frankly can't comprehend the complexity of modeling Photoshop's layers as SQL tables.

Converting PSD's to JSON seems like a reasonable thing to do, but converting them to normalized SQL seems like a never ending shit show.

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Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by cachvico on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @01:32AM (#5636624)

How about just strip PSD of all its crud, Adobe specifies it openly and gives it to the commons. I have a dream..

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Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by sneak on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @01:40AM (#5636645)

Keep dreaming: PSD is not a single file format, but two decades of cruft upon cruft:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/11/psd/

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Re:We Need A Standard Layered Image Format by chaz on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @08:47AM (#5637552)

I found this article, linked in the comments, to be insightful: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html

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