Contributing

Development happens at github: bug tracker. Feel free to submit bug reports or pull requests. Attaching an erroneous PSD file makes the debugging process faster. Such PSD file might be added to the test suite.

The license is MIT.

Package design

The package consists of two major subpackages:

  1. psd_tools.psd: subpackage that reads/writes low-level binary

    structure of the PSD/PSB file. The core data structures are built around attrs class that all implement read and write methods. Each data object tries to resemble the structure described in the specification. Although documented, the specification is far from complete and some are even inaccurate. When psd-tools finds unknown data structure, the package keeps such data as bytes in the parsed result.

  1. psd_tools.api: User-facing API that implements various

    easy-to-use methods that manipulate low-level psd_tools.psd data structures.

Testing

In order to run tests, make sure PIL/Pillow is built with LittleCMS or LittleCMS2 support. For example, on Ubuntu, install the following packages:

apt-get install liblcms2-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev

Then install psd-tools with the following command:

pip install -e .[dev]

Finally, run tests with pytest:

pytest

Documentation

Install Sphinx to generate documents:

pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme

Once installed, use Makefile:

make docs

Acknowledgments

Great thanks to all the contributors.