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photocraft/docs/file-format-parity.md
ad96df566b File > Save As / Save a Copy / CLI can write PDF (#3401) (#3441)
* TIFF: read and write CIE L*a*b* (CIELab, ICCLab); Lab documents stay Lab

Photoshop saves Lab documents as CIELab TIFFs (PhotometricInterpretation
8, a* and b* signed), which PhotoCraft could not open, and PhotoCraft
saved Lab documents as sRGB TIFFs.

- codecs: a Lab channel layout (Lab, LabA) holding a* and b* as
  PhotoCraft's Lab documents do ((a + 128) / 255; 16 bits like the PSD
  importer), with its own Lab <-> sRGB conversion (same formulas as
  photocraft-color; codecs stays standalone) for formats without Lab,
  which now warn LabConverted.
- TIFF read: CIELab and ICCLab (8 and 16 bits, alpha) are handed to the
  tiff crate as RGB and labelled Lab; a* and b* are converted from the
  file's encoding (signed a / 256a, or offset).
- TIFF write: Lab and LabA as CIELab, as Photoshop writes it; float Lab
  is written with 16 bits (DepthReduced).
- io: a Lab TIFF opens as a Lab document; a Lab document with one plain
  layer is written to TIFF in Lab (other formats still use sRGB).

Photoshop 2025's Lab TIFFs open with the colours Photoshop shows (its
own RGB conversion matches within one level at 8 bits and exactly at 16
bits), and Photoshop reads PhotoCraft's Lab TIFFs back with the same
L*a*b* values.

Fixes #4936

* PSD: a smart object's filter mask shows when the file opens

Photoshop stores a smart object's layer pixels with its filters applied
but not its filter mask. When it composites, it mixes the unfiltered
pixels (cached in FEid) back in through the mask. We showed the stored
pixels as they were, so a PSD whose smart filter has a mask opened with
the filter everywhere. Only after something re-rendered the smart object
did the mask appear, because our re-render mixes it.

- compose::filter_mask holds the mix, moved from the engine, and its
  inverse.
- Import decodes the unfiltered pixels from FEid
  (smart_map::unfiltered_from_item) and keeps the mixed result as the
  smart object's pixels, as the engine's re-render does.
- Export writes the layer record the way Photoshop does: unmixed with
  the unfiltered pixels it writes (or keeps) in FEid, so Photoshop mixes
  back to what the document showed. Transparent pixels stay empty.

Photoshop oracles: sf-filter-mask-hard, sf-filter-mask-gradient and
sf-stack-blend-and-mask pass (145 -> 148 of 258); floor 145 -> 148.
psd-tools and io corpora unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* DNG: decode lossy (JPEG-compressed) DNG tiles (FILE-215-11)

DNG 1.4 lossy JPEG (compression 34892) stores each tile or strip as a
baseline-DCT JPEG of 8-bit samples: a gray stream for CFA data, a YCbCr
stream for three-sample LinearRaw. The decoder arm from #2021 read the
streams but widened every sample by 257, so the values no longer matched
the file's levels: an 8-bit WhiteLevel (or its default, 255) clipped
everything to white and a 256-entry LinearizationTable was indexed past
its end. It also required the JPEG frame to match the clipped row count,
which rejected the padded edge tiles real tiled files carry.

The arm is now `lossy_jpeg()` in sensor.rs. The decoded 8-bit values are
the stored samples, and BlackLevel, WhiteLevel (default 255 for 8-bit
data) and the LinearizationTable apply to them exactly as for every other
compression. A tile may be coded at the full tile size (edge tiles padded,
as the spec says) or at the image's row count; a strip at its row count;
the width must be the segment's. BitsPerSample must be 8 and the JPEG's
component count must equal SamplesPerPixel (1 or 3); anything else is an
error, never a silent conversion. The frame header is checked before any
pixel is decoded and the JPEG decoder's own size cap is the segment the
IFD declares (already charged against the limits), so a hostile SOF cannot
size a buffer past the tile.

testgen writes true 8-bit lossy fixtures (`LossyJpegTiles`, and strips via
the new `LossyJpegStrips`), accepts pre-encoded `lossy_segments` for
hostile-input tests, exposes `baseline_jpeg()`, and leaves WhiteLevel out
when `white` is 0. The DNG tests cover CFA and LinearRaw RGB from tiles
and strips at 37x23 (partial edge tiles, a short last strip), the default
white level, black/white scaling and a LinearizationTable against the
uncompressed path, and hostile inputs: a truncated tile, frame-size and
component-count mismatches, a 65535x65535 SOF under default and tight
limits, a tile over the allocation budget, and 12/16-bit or 4-sample
files. The hostile mutation set gains a lossy CFA and a lossy LinearRaw
file. The parity doc's DNG row is updated; the scorecard row is left for
the coordinating branch.

* Raw: measure the Nikon D90 image area (4288x2848 at (10, 10))

Aligning the decoded D90 sensor plane with the camera's own JPEG puts the
image at (10, 10) in the 4352x2868 sensor plane, giving the camera's
4288x2848 frame (10-pixel margins; the right border reads the camera's flat
255 from column 4310). Add the measured ImageArea so a D90 NEF opens on the
camera's frame instead of the uncropped plane, and make a measured profile
leave a file that carries its own colour calibration (a DNG) untouched.

* File > Save As / Save a Copy / CLI can write PDF: one flattened page with the embedded profile (#3401)

* Codecs: open Cineon (.cin) film frames read-only

Cineon is the 10-bit logarithmic film-scan format DPX grew from. Read it from
the same Kodak header family: the generic header (big-endian, orientation at
192, channel count at 193, the channel-1 bits/dimensions), one or three
channels, three 10-bit samples packed into each 32-bit word on a word
boundary. The 10-bit code values open as U16 (round(c x 65535 / 1023)); the
file's log black/white points are a display choice and are not applied. A
depth other than 10 bits or a channel count other than 1/3 is Unsupported;
truncation errors rather than panicking. Read-only (no Cineon writer), so
.cin joins the open filters and Cineon read closes part of #1049's G10 gap.

* Vector: bound flattening memory, keep over-budget dashes, cheaper edge build (#5195)

- flatten: a path's flattened points are capped at 1 << 20; past it every
  curve keeps a proportional share of its pieces (at least one), so hostile
  handles from files (vmsk, SVG, effect outlines) cannot exhaust memory.
  fill_rasterizer flattens the whole path under one budget.
- stroke: past the dash step budget (or below coordinate precision),
  dash_polyline keeps the dashes made so far and draws the rest solid
  instead of dropping the stroke. Open polylines are no longer copied.
- raster: coordinates are clamped to +-1e15 and edges with a non-finite
  slope (vanishingly short) are skipped, so huge finite coordinates no
  longer produce NaN coverage. fill_rasterizer sorts edges once instead of
  after every component (stable sort, identical order).
- Cleanups: dead miter `half`, dead loop-length check in trace_mask,
  shared mask render body, map_knots helper, shared straight-segment test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* PSD: cap pattern memory across a parse, reject mixed-depth pattern channels (#5198)

- Patterns: one PatternBudget (decoded bytes + zero padding) is shared by
  every pattern of a block, a .pat file and the pattern blocks of one
  document; .abr patt sections are charged to the samples' budget.
- Patterns: a channel whose depth differs from the first is rejected (the
  parsed pattern could not be written back).
- Slices: descriptor numbers no longer wrap; out-of-range ids are no id,
  coordinates clamp to i32, and a v6 trailing entry without a usable id
  attaches its outsets to no slice.
- LayerInfo::unpadded_len is computed from field sizes instead of
  serializing every record into a scratch buffer.
- abr desc presets are moved out instead of cloned; UnFl and shmd counts
  use the bounded preallocation; ImageData::decode_channel (decoded every
  plane to return one, unused outside its test) is removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Vector: bound stroke outline points (#5211)

- stroke_polygons dashes all lines first, then counts round caps and
  joins. When their full-resolution tessellation would exceed 1 << 20
  outline points, every round cap and join gets the same smaller segment
  count (down to 4 per circle, 1 per join; area-exact radius kept).
  Strokes under the budget are unchanged; no piece is dropped.
- The dash step budget (100000) is now shared by all lines of a stroke
  instead of per polyline, so many subpaths cannot multiply the dash
  (and cap) count. Past it the rest is drawn solid, as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* PSD: write tiff blocks without copies, inflate merged ZIP once

- ImageSourceData::to_bytes writes the global mask and global blocks
  straight from the model with 4-byte alignment instead of cloning each
  block (data included) to set its padding. Same bytes.
- The tiff transcoder's nested regions and blocks write into the parent's
  buffer (taken and handed back, error or not) instead of building their
  own output and copying it up per nesting level. Bodies that fail or are
  not transcoded are truncated before being copied as stored or dropped.
  Same bytes.
- PsdFile::from_bytes_and_merged decodes the merged image with the parse
  when asked: a ZIP stream is inflated once (the decode's stream check is
  the parse's); the parse-only check runs only when the decode fails, to
  keep from_bytes' errors. PSD import uses it with merged_needed.
- PsdBuilder::composite documents that Gray/CMYK composites stay straight.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Content-Aware Fill: measure a thin hole by its thickness, not its bounds (#1366)

Removing long, thin objects (coiled guitar strings, wires) left their
outline as darker and lighter blotches and copied pieces of other strings
into the fill. The pyramid shrank until the hole's bounding box was four
patches across: for a string across the image that is a level where the
hole has swallowed its surroundings, so the matches found there copy
whatever looks like the blur, and the finer levels (refine-only for wide
bounds) keep them.

A hole at most a quarter as thick as its bounds are long now counts as
thin: the pyramid stops while it is still about two patches thick, and
that level starts from a membrane across it (over a few pixels, the
surroundings themselves) instead of the onion peel, whose exhaustive
search is what made a shallow pyramid unaffordable. Compact holes are
unchanged bit for bit.

Refs #1366

* perf(compose,gpu): effect caches reserve tile addresses instead of pinning layers

Effect map cache entries kept a clone of their layer (a deep clone for groups) so the tile addresses the cache key hashes couldn't be reused. That kept an edited or deleted layer's pixels alive, uncounted, until the entry was evicted. Keep a Weak to each hashed tile instead: it reserves the address without keeping the pixels. The GPU compositor's styled-group pins and shape-source tile snapshots do the same. Part of #4530.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(history): count snapshot-only tiles against the history budget

History panel snapshots outlived every budget: a Merged Layers snapshot is a full flattened copy that neither the history budget, the GPU budget's document bytes nor Purge accounted for. Trim now counts the tiles only snapshots hold as fixed cost, the GPU budget includes them, and Purge > Histories no longer reports tiles a kept snapshot still holds as freed. Part of #4530.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Content-Aware Fill: every part of a thin selection keeps its surroundings (#1366)

Two more causes of ghosts when removing strings and the small knobs
selected with them:

* Auto sampling summarises the selection's surroundings by a few
  clusters. Around a long selection those come from the strings'
  surroundings, so a small part elsewhere (a tuning knob in a differently
  coloured corner) lost its own surroundings and was filled from far away
  in another colour. Around a thin selection the Auto area now always
  reaches as far as the selection is thick.
* The membrane that starts a thin hole now starts a patch radius out, past
  the anti-aliased fringe or halo that a selection drawn close to the
  object leaves outside it.

Refs #1366

* Content-Aware Fill: peel a thin hole where that stays affordable (#1366)

Starting every thin hole from a membrane smoothed Spot Healing on film
grain (spot_healing_keeps_film_grain_through_overlapping_strokes: grain
9.0 against 12.1 around). The onion peel copies the grain; it was only
given up because its exhaustive search is too slow on the big level a
long thin hole stops at. It now starts the thin hole whenever hole cells
times sources stay within 2^28 comparisons, and the membrane only beyond.

Refs #1366

* Select Subject: keep subject parts coloured like the backdrop, leave enclosed gaps open

Users on #2788 reported Select Subject dropping clothes that are close in
colour to a plain wall and bridging the gap between an arm and the torso.
Both come from the same place: the saliency pass labels low-contrast parts
of the subject as background, the background colour model then learns
them and explains them away, and the final blind hole fill closes every
enclosed gap up to 5 % of the mask.

Two changes in crates/algo:

- A second GrabCut pass whose background model only knows the backdrop. A
  colour model fitted to the image frame (minus a margin around the
  salient blob, in case the subject runs out of the picture) marks every
  pixel it explains as probable background; the blob and whatever the
  backdrop cannot account for start as probable foreground. Only
  components that touch the first pass's result survive.
- Hole filling that consults the colour models: specks (<= 0.2 % of the
  mask) always fill, larger holes up to 5 % fill only when their pixels
  fit the foreground model better than the background's.

Tests: two regressions (a cream-shouldered figure on a near-white wall
keeps its shoulders; a ring keeps its backdrop-coloured hole open), plus
ignored timing and picture-dump helpers. The 6 MP first run goes from
about 100 ms to about 200 ms on one core; the P29 repeat path is untouched.

* Keyboard shortcut sets: Set menu, New Set, Save, Delete, .kys Export and Summarize (K2)

Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts gets Photoshop's set management. A set is a saved copy of the
bindings (Preferences.shortcutSets, the one in use in shortcutSet; "" is PhotoCraft Defaults),
and the Set menu shows "(modified)" when the bindings differ from it. New Set…, Save and
Delete wait for OK like the rest of the dialog. Export… writes the dialog's bindings as a .kys
file (commands then tools, Photoshop's macOS key spelling), each row carrying our id as pc-id
so PhotoCraft imports its own sets back exactly, whatever the label; Summarize… writes
Photoshop's HTML list of every bound command by menu.

edit.keyboardShortcuts takes useSet (before the call's edits), saveSet, deleteSet, sets and
activeSet (after them), exportKys and summarize; every reply reports the sets, the set in use
and whether it is modified. Bad names, keys or counts are errors that change nothing.

* .kys import: tool keys and sets saved on Windows (K3)

Photoshop's <tool> rows now import: each matches our tool by name (our tool names are
Photoshop's) or by pc-id in sets PhotoCraft exported, and a letter other than the tool's own
becomes its override, while its own letter keeps the tool cycling with the others (#5036).

A set saved on Windows spells the primary modifier Ctrl where a Mac set writes Cmd and keeps
Control for the Control key. A set with no Cmd or Opt anywhere but some Ctrl is read as a
Windows set, its Ctrl as our Cmd: Ctrl+L is the Cmd+L default, not a Control-key override that
would also mean Control on a Mac. The import reports `windows`.

* cargo fmt the extension lists

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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File-format parity

Last reviewed: 2026-10-12 · Last updated: 2026-10-13 · Change: minor (earlier: PDF write one flattened page via Save As / Save a Copy / CLI, #3401; CMYK Invert, Posterize and Threshold on the inks; smart filter masks on PSD open and save; Photoshop-oracle floor 188/258; lossy DNG, compression 34892, decodes with its levels and LinearizationTable applied to the stored 8-bit samples, FILE-215-11; CMYK Hue/Saturation and Color Balance keep the black ink; CMYK Posterize on the stored values, psd-tools oracle floor 242/309; CMYK adjustment layers composite on the document's inks; Photoshop-oracle floor 165/258; CMYK Brightness/Contrast on the inks, CMYK Threshold's luma; modern Brightness/Contrast's brightness curve; Photoshop-oracle floor 151/258; Lab documents composite on their stored L, a, b; Photoshop-oracle floor 152/258; Levels on whole levels at every step with Photoshop's shadow toe; Photoshop-oracle floor 146/258, psd-tools 238/309; 32-bit adjustments unclipped; Photoshop-oracle floor 149/258; mask feathers blur with their exact variance; Threshold splits on Photoshop's luminosity; a pass-through clipping base with an adjustment renders isolated; psd-tools oracle floor 240/309; 16-bit Posterize as Photoshop bins it; psd-tools oracle floor 241/309; Gradient Map luminosity; Photoshop-oracle floor 147/258; PSD: Mt16/Mt32 merged transparency read; palette PNGs open in Indexed Color mode, #4804; earlier: CMYK Invert, Posterize and Threshold on the inks; 16-bit Lab Invert; Photoshop-oracle floor 145/258; .atn import maps 112 events; DDS textures open, #1327; DPX read and write, #1049; #2465 fixed: CS2 placed layers with only a PlLd block open their contents; Photoshop Actions .atn read and write; .shc contour files read and write; earlier the same day: indexed BMP palette mode; Save keeps a JPEG's quality and a WebP's encoding) · Target: Adobe Photoshop 2026

Every format Photoshop 2026 (27.11.0) reads or writes, with PhotoCraft's support, fidelity and tests. Photoshop's list comes from its Info.plist CFBundleDocumentTypes, the PiPL read/write flags of Contents/PlugIns/Required/File Formats, and format names in the main binary (Open/Save As behaviour from Adobe's documentation where the bundle doesn't say). Ours comes from crates/codecs/src/format.rs (capability table), crates/io/src/lib.rs (import/export dispatch), crates/psd, crates/raw, crates/heif, crates/affinity. More detail on our side: raster formats, PSD/PSB, OpenRaster, Paint.NET.

Summary. By count, 13 of Photoshop's 31 formats are fully supported in the directions Photoshop supports them, 4 partially (48%, measured). Weighted by use (PSD/PSB 40%, JPEG 15%, PNG 15%, TIFF 10%, camera raw 8%, WebP/AVIF/ HEIF/JXL 6%, PDF 3%, everything else 3%), presence is ~80% and ready-for-real-work ~60%: PSD is broad but not yet reliable against Photoshop (gap G1), and Photoshop PDF, AVIF read and JPEG XL are missing (gap G10). Remaining: 300–500 h including PSD fidelity.

Photoshop's formats

Format Photoshop PhotoCraft read PhotoCraft write Fidelity and tests
PSD R/W yes yes 1/8/16/32-bit; Bitmap, Gray, Indexed, RGB, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab, Duotone; layers, groups, masks, vector masks, adjustment and fill layers, effects, text, shapes, smart objects (SoLd/lnk2; CS2 PlLd/lnkD read with their warp, kept as is or re-saved as SoLd once edited), smart filters (14 mapped plus Filter Gallery with Chrome, rest verbatim), slices, comps, Advanced Blending. Oracle floors: Photoshop-authored 188/258, io 148/170, psd-tools 249/309; round trip ≥ 169/170, 308/309, 258/256. Known failures: #1281, #2469 (#2374, text layers, closed 2026-10-10; #2465, CS2 PlLd-only smart objects, fixed 2026-10-12)
PSB R/W yes yes Auto-switches above 2 GB (REL-212-2); 4–5 GB fixtures generated (FILE-216-2); > 4 GB fails on Windows (#375)
Cloud PSD (.psdc) R/W no no Out of scope (Adobe cloud)
TIFF R/W yes yes 8/16/32f, Gray/RGB/CMYK, BigTIFF, every IFD, banded parallel decode; layered TIFF both byte orders (FILE-215-7: extra alpha channels not written)
JPEG R/W yes yes 8-bit Gray/RGB/CMYK, ICC/EXIF/XMP; Save keeps the opened file's quality (estimated from its quantisation tables, #2399); no JPEG Options dialog (quality 0–12, baseline/progressive) (FILE-215-19)
PNG R/W yes yes 8/16-bit, ICC/text; APNG first frame only; alpha channels on open (#2225); palette PNGs open in Indexed Color mode with their transparent entry (#4804)
GIF R/W yes yes File › Open keeps the first frame; New Video Layer from File and Video Frames to Layers take every frame, with the timeline rate from the delays (#572). Per-frame delays and keeping the frames in .pcraft are not done
BMP R/W yes yes 8-bit; palette BMPs open in Indexed Color mode
WebP R/W yes yes Lossless and our own lossy VP8 encoder; ICC/EXIF/XMP; Save keeps an opened file lossy (at its quality) or lossless (#2399)
AVIF R/W no (#463) optional feature, off by default
JPEG XL R/W inside DNG only no
HEIF/HEIC R/W(HEIF) yes (pure-Rust heic-rs, heif feature, on in releases) no 8/16-bit
OpenEXR R/W yes yes f16/f32; deep EXR and Cryptomatte readers (corpus/exr)
Radiance HDR R/W yes yes f32
Portable Bit Map (PBM/PGM/PPM/PNM/PFM/PAM) R/W yes yes 8/16/32f
FITS R/W (FITS Liberator plug-in) yes yes 8/16/32f gray or RGB, header cards kept; no fpack, no debayer
Targa R/W yes yes 8-bit
Photoshop PDF R/W no (#2541) yes, one flattened page (Save As / Save a Copy / CLI, #3401; also print and artboards-to-PDF) No vector/text PDF, no multi-page save, no PDF presentation, layers are not preserved (FILE-215-10); read still missing (#2541)
Photoshop EPS, DCS 1.0/2.0, EPS TIFF/PICT preview R/W no no
Generic EPS / AI R (rasterize) no no
SVG R (rasterize) yes, as editable shape layers or a vector smart object no Better than Photoshop for editing; gradients approximated (FILE-215-9)
JPEG 2000 R/W no (#1047) no
Cineon / DPX R (DPX), R/W (CIN) DPX: luma, RGB, RGBA at 8/10/12/16 bits, both byte orders (#1049); Cineon: 10-bit gray/RGB, read-only DPX: 8/10/12/16 bits (dpxBits, --dpx-bits); Cineon no Writes DPX, which Photoshop only reads; header fields (creator, project, copyright, transfer, frame rate, time code…) round-trip; Cineon read-only, no RLE
DICOM R/W no no
PCX R/W no no
Pixar R/W no no
Amiga IFF R/W no no
Wireless Bitmap R/W no no
MPO / JPS (stereo) R/W no no
PICT R no no Legacy
Scitex CT R/W no no Legacy
Photoshop Raw (.raw) R/W no no
Camera raw (via Camera Raw 18.7) R partial – See below

Camera raw

Photoshop opens raws through Camera Raw 18.7 (the bundle registers cr2, crw, dcr, dng, erf, mos, fff, 3fr, mef, mfw, iiq, nrw, rwl, srw, mrw, nef, orf, pef, raf, srf, x3f; Camera Raw itself supports many more, including CR3).

Camera format PhotoCraft Evidence
DNG (incl. LJPEG, lossy JPEG and JPEG XL tiles) yes 2026-10-13: lossy DNG (DNG 1.4 compression 34892: 8-bit baseline JPEG tiles or strips, CFA and LinearRaw, partial edge tiles) decodes to the stored samples, which go through LinearizationTable / BlackLevel / WhiteLevel (default 255) like every other depth; crates/raw/tests/dng.rs lossy_jpeg_* (FILE-215-11, lossy DNG part; no lossy file in the raw corpus yet)
Canon CR2 yes
Canon CR3 detected, unsupported crates/raw/src/lib.rs:219
Nikon NEF/NRW (lossless, lossy) yes; "lossy after split" no #50; D5100 and D90 image areas measured (14-bit NEFs); validation
Sony ARW/SR2/SRF (incl. compressed) yes
Panasonic RW2, Pentax PEF yes
Olympus ORF uncompressed only
Fujifilm RAF (Bayer and X-Trans) uncompressed only; no Fuji colour calibration
Others (CRW, 3FR, IIQ, X3F, SRW, MRW, ERF…) embedded preview only
.xmp sidecars, highlight modes, raw preferences missing FILE-215-11
Camera Raw as a PSD smart filter partial 2026-10-07: WB, Light/Presence, curves, HSL, grading, detail, grain, vignette mapped (FILE-215-12)

2026-10-11: on #2135's embedded-JPEG rendering work, open-time Camera Raw tuning preserves the fitted rendering while changing Exposure, Temperature and Tint. Default tuned import matches normal import exactly; output remains full-resolution 16-bit ProPhoto. This improves appearance when a usable preview is present, without adding a measured D5100 colour profile. Counts and the G14 estimate are unchanged.

Formats Photoshop doesn't have (ours only)

Format Read Write Notes
.pcraft (native) yes yes Incremental, autosave, crash recovery, atomic save
Affinity .af, .afphoto, .afdesign, .afpub yes no See below
Paint.NET .pdn yes no pdn.md
OpenRaster .ora yes yes ora.md
ICO, QOI yes yes
DirectDraw Surface .dds yes no Top mip level of a 2D texture: uncompressed RGB, RGBA or luminance, BC1–BC3 (DXT1/3/5), legacy or DX10 header. Cubemaps, arrays, volumes and BC4–BC7 are refused (#1327). Photoshop needs a plug-in
Krita .kra, GIMP .xcf, Procreate no no Not in Photoshop either

Affinity import notes (moved from roadmap.md)

2026-10-08: Affinity .af, .afdesign, .afphoto and .afpub documents (container versions 8–12) open natively (format notes): pages and artboards, layers and groups, curves and geometric shapes with fills, gradients and strokes, text as type layers, placed images as smart objects, pixel layers and masks, as an 8-bit RGB document without a source save path. Measured against the thumbnail Affinity embeds in each file, 21 pinned public documents (cargo xtask corpus --affinity) differ by 0–4.6 of 255 on average. Layer effects, adjustments, live filters, brush strokes, special shapes, master pages and CMYK/Lab/16-bit document colour are approximated or left out, each with a warning; damaged or unknown files fall back to the embedded preview. Affinity writing is not implemented: no Affinity installation was available to check written files, so .af export stays unsupported.

2026-10-10: current .af artboard properties (phrp/aprp) are recognized alongside the legacy flag, including converted curve boards. Synthetic two-board regressions check separate bounds, overflow clipping, .pcraft/PSD board and pixel round trips, and moving one board with its children through undo/redo. Nested boards remain masked groups; rotated/curved board outlines still import at their bounding rectangle.

2026-10-09: corpus/affinity/ now has 39 pinned documents and 21 PNGs (20 rendered references and one bitmap-fill texture): the prior 21 public documents plus 18 CC0 samples for #1606. The new samples compare against their exported PNGs; mean differences range from 0.44/255 (conical gradients) to 86.05/255 (RGB/32 reduced to 8-bit). Clouds, hearts, cogs, callouts, arrows, double stars, tears, crescents, diamonds and circular segments now import as parametric shapes; the special-shapes sample measures 5.68/255 against its PNG. The remaining gaps in #1606 stay tracked with per-sample corpus ceilings.

Presets and data files

Format Photoshop PhotoCraft Notes
Brushes .abr R/W R/W psd/src/abr.rs (v6/v12)
Gradients .grd R/W R/W
Patterns .pat R/W R/W
Swatches .aco, .ase R/W R/W FILE-215-14
LUTs .cube / .3dl / .look R/W (Export Color Lookup) R/W / R / R cms/src/lutfile.rs
Keyboard shortcuts .kys R/W R/W engine/src/kys.rs (write: Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts › Export…, rows carry our id; Photoshop reading our files is unverified)
ICC profiles R R Own CMS
Actions .atn R/W R/W psd/src/atn.rs (version 16 sets, exact round trip), engine/src/atn_cmds.rs (112 Photoshop events ↔ commands; other steps kept verbatim). Panel menu, CLI batch --actions set.atn, actions.load/actions.save. Photoshop 5-era version 12 files unsupported (AUTO-219-2)
Styles .asl R/W no #1693
Contours .shc R/W R/W psd/src/shc.rs; Contour Editor Load…/Save… (FILE-215-15). No user contour library; not yet checked against a Photoshop-written file
Custom shapes .csh, tool presets .tpl R/W no
Curves .acv, Levels .alv, other adjustment presets R/W not audited
C2PA Content Credentials R/W no #1050

Revision history

Date Change Summary
2026-10-14 minor PSD smart filter masks: Photoshop stores a smart object's filtered pixels without its filter mask and mixes the unfiltered ones (FEid) back in; import now mixes them and export writes them that way, so sf-filter-mask-hard, -gradient and sf-stack-blend-and-mask pass; Photoshop-oracle floor 185 → 188 of 258
2026-10-13 minor Lossy DNG (compression 34892) decodes: 8-bit baseline JPEG tiles and strips, CFA and LinearRaw, partial edge tiles; the stored values take the normal levels and LinearizationTable (FILE-215-11, lossy DNG part)
2026-10-14 minor Corpus floors raised to the measured results of the CMYK, Lab, 32-bit, Levels, Threshold, Posterize, feather and pass-through fixes landed together: Photoshop-authored 165 → 185 of 258, io 146 → 148 of 170, psd-tools 242 → 249 of 309
2026-10-13 minor CMYK Hue/Saturation (not Colorize) and Color Balance work on C, M and Y as inverted RGB with black kept, on the inks for display, export and destructive edits; cmyk8/16 hue-saturation 100% → 0.4–0.7% bad pixels, color-balance 74% → 25%
2026-10-13 minor CMYK Posterize works on the stored values (1 − ink), as Photoshop does: psd-tools posterize_cmyk passes (13.8 % → 0 of pixels off on the ink path); psd-tools floor → 242 of 309
2026-10-13 minor CMYK documents whose layers are plain raster layers plus Invert, Posterize, Threshold, Brightness/Contrast, Levels or Curves layers composite on their own inks for display, export and flattening: the cmyk8/16 oracles for those seven adjustments pass; Photoshop-oracle floor 151 → 165 of 258
2026-10-13 minor CMYK Threshold compares the Rec. 601 luma of the inks' plain complement, as Photoshop does (every pixel of cmyk8/16 threshold-128.psd); oracle bad pixels 1.6% → 0.2%
2026-10-13 minor CMYK Brightness/Contrast (modern and legacy) curves each ink's stored value (1 − ink), exact on destructive edits; cmyk8/16 oracle bad pixels 71% → 48–57% (the RGB composite's separation still differs)
2026-10-13 minor Modern Brightness/Contrast: the brightness curve refit to Photoshop, so the rgb and gray 8/16/32 brightness-contrast oracles pass; Photoshop-oracle floor 145 → 151 of 258
2026-10-13 minor Lab documents of plain layers with Invert, Posterize, Threshold, Brightness/Contrast or Lab Levels/Curves adjustment layers composite on the stored L, a, b instead of clipped display RGB, and flattening keeps them: lab16 invert, posterize-4, levels, curves and legacy Brightness/Contrast and lab8 invert and posterize-4 pass; Photoshop-oracle floor 145 → 152 of 258
2026-10-13 minor Levels round the gamma and output steps to whole levels too (8-bit), and the gamma above 1 starts along a toe of slope 2^gamma that joins the power curve: psd-tools levels_rgb and rgb8 stack-levels-curves-hue-posterize pass, rgb8/gray8 levels.psd exact; Photoshop-oracle floor 145 → 146 of 258, psd-tools 236 → 238 of 309
2026-10-13 minor 32-bit documents: legacy Brightness/Contrast, Channel Mixer, Photo Filter and the Black & White tint keep values above 1 and below 0 as Photoshop does (rgb32/gray32 brightness-contrast-legacy, rgb32 channel-mixer and black-white-tint pass); Photoshop-oracle floor 145 → 149 of 258
2026-10-13 minor Mask feathers blur with exactly the feather's variance (three extended boxes; whole-pixel boxes rounded 6 px to 6.48): psd-tools mask-parameters-no-real-channel passes, layer_mask_data 27 % → 4 % off; psd-tools floor → 240 of 309 (main 239)
2026-10-13 minor Threshold splits on the luminosity 0.30 R + 0.59 G + 0.11 B of whole samples, as Photoshop does (8-bit: rounded to a level, halves down; 16-bit: against the level in 16 bits), not the Rec. 601 grey: psd-tools threshold_rgb and threshold_16bits_rgb pass; psd-tools floor → 241 of 309 (main 239)
2026-10-13 minor A pass-through group that is the base of a clipping group and holds an adjustment layer renders isolated, as Photoshop does (its blend modes still reach the backdrop): psd-tools passthrough_clipping_mask_adjustment passes (was 50 % of pixels off); psd-tools floor → 240 of 309 (main 239)
2026-10-13 minor 16-bit Posterize bins the 16-bit sample and lands on 8-bit levels through a 16-bit step, as Photoshop does (RGB, Grayscale and the CMYK/Lab channel path): psd-tools posterize_16bits_rgb and posterize_16bits_grayscale pass; psd-tools floor → 241 of 309 (main 239)
2026-10-13 minor Gradient Map adjustment layers are driven by the W3C luminosity (0.3, 0.59, 0.11), not the Rec. 601 grey: rgb8 and rgb16 gradient-map.psd pass; Photoshop-oracle floor 145 → 147 of 258
2026-10-13 minor PSD: a "Saving Merged Transparency" global block (Mtrn, Mt16, Mt32; Photoshop's 32-bit documents keep a positive layer count) marks the merged image's first extra channel as its transparency: opening such a file no longer adds a "Transparency" alpha channel, and the oracle compares psd-tools transparentbg.psd's alpha (83.7 % → 0.9 % of pixels off; its shape edges remain)
2026-10-13 minor Palette PNGs open in Indexed Color mode (#4804)
2026-10-12 minor .atn: 112 events mapped (Select and Mask, Filter Gallery Spatter, Ripple, Crystallize, Pattern Fill layers, mask targeting, Step Backward, points, Bitmap)
2026-10-12 minor DDS textures open, read-only (#1327)
2026-10-12 minor #2465 fixed: Photoshop CS2 placed layers (PlLd only, file in lnkD) open as editable smart objects and save their edits
2026-10-12 minor CMYK Invert, Posterize and Threshold work on the inks and 16-bit Lab Invert mirrors a and b around neutral (oracle bad pixels: CMYK 71–77% → 9–10%, 37% → 1.6%; lab16 invert 52% → 1.2%); Photoshop-oracle floor 133 → 145 of 258
2026-10-12 minor DPX read and write (#1049); Cineon still missing
2026-10-12 minor Photoshop Actions .atn: read and write, 90 events mapped, the rest kept verbatim (AUTO-219-2)
2026-10-12 minor Presets table: Contours .shc read and write through the Contour Editor (FILE-215-15); .csh and .tpl stay missing
2026-10-12 minor Palette BMPs open in Indexed Color mode (#3802)
2026-10-12 minor Save writes a JPEG at its own estimated quality and a WebP lossy or lossless as opened (#2399)
2026-10-11 minor PSD smart filters: Filter Gallery (GEfc) maps to filter.filterGallery when every effect is modelled (Chrome so far), editable from the Layers panel
2026-10-11 minor D5100 image area and fitted-look preservation in Camera Raw tuning
2026-10-11 minor PDF write now covers Save As / Save a Copy / CLI (io::pdf::export, #3401): one flattened RGB/Gray/CMYK page at the document's print size with the embedded profile. Read (#2541), multi-page save, PDF presentation, vector/text output still open
2026-10-10 major First version: Photoshop 2026 27.11.0's formats from its bundle, against our codecs; Affinity notes moved from roadmap.md