Hi,

Today I've made available a beta version of a plugin, PSD Extract/Recover <http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#psdrecover>, which can extract individual layers from PSD/PSB files. The main purpose however is to allow extraction of imagery from damaged/corrupted/truncated PSDs, because Photoshop usually refuses to open them, or at best produces a badly garbled image. This plugin tries much harder than Photoshop to extract data despite damage.

It's also a much faster way to grab a single image layer from any PSD than opening the whole thing - especially if it's a complex file.

Please test and send any feedback to me <mailto:>.

The plugin is FREE (GPL), and donation is encouraged if you find it astonishingly useful.

--Toby

Notes
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* * The plugin may override Photoshop's built-in PSD/PSB format reader. If you find Photoshop defaulting to this plugin, just remove it and
re-launch Photoshop. **

ONLY image layers are extracted (not any other layer type).

There is currently no access to layer masks, alpha channels and spot channels. This is planned to be added.