Format | PSD | |
Company | Adobe | Adobe |
Description | It is Adobe Photoshop\'s native format. | Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2-D document (and, with Acrobat 3-D, embedded 3-D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2-D vector graphics which comprise the documents. |
Benefits | It stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, Clipping paths, and duotone settings. | |
Drawbacks | Large files | |
Metadata | Handles XMP, EXIF or IPTC |
Professional photo conversion and processing. | |
Used by photographers (amateur and professional), design studios, architects, large organizations (NASA, IBM, Chrysler, University hospitals). | |
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