2 Sep
2011
2 Sep
'11
7:44 a.m.
At 01:47 AM 9/2/2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
If the "flattened" image isn't present in
a particular PSD file (is it possible for it not to be?) is it at all possible to
"get there from here", as it were?
No, and that's the point he was making. A PhotoShop file probably contains
bitmaps, but it also contains all sorts of other info (Bezier paths, masks, who
knows what) that is feed-stock for proprietary Adobe code in PhotoShop,
or maybe for third-party plug-ins you own. You call it lock-in, someone
else calls it twenty years of refined algorithms.
- John