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Adobe Photoshop File Format Solution

High Code APIs and free apps for PSD, PSB with ability to reduce size of files and compress using undocumented possibilities

Free Online App to Compress PSD and reduce its size

Compress large PSD and PSB files using lossy and lossless methods. Discover hidden potential of Aspose.PSD. It's not always safe for Data in PSD File, so if you use it often you should test the PSD Files after the compression. Please note, that some compress features are Lossy, so after these types of compression you will not be able to restore initial PSD Files. This feature is provided "as is". You can compress PSD or reduce size of PSB files.

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Lossless PSD Compress methods

Lossy PSD Compress methods

Compress PSD

You can reproduce the main functionality of this built-in app using Aspose.PSD

      // Lossless compression
        // Remove Cache Data			
        Stream RemoveCacheData(PsdImage image)
        {
            foreach (var layer in image.Layers)
            {
                // Can be applied
                if (layer is TextLayer || layer is FillLayer)
                {
                    layer.SaveArgb32Pixels(layer.Bounds, new int[layer.Bounds.Width * layer.Bounds.Height]);
                }
            }

            var stream = new MemoryStream();
            image.Save(stream, new PsdOptions(image));

            return stream;
        }

        // Applying RLE Compression
        Stream ApplyRleCompression(PsdImage image)
        {
            foreach (var layer in image.Layers)
            {

                foreach (var channelInformation in layer.ChannelInformation)
                {
                    // Can be applied
                    if (channelInformation.CompressionMethod == CompressionMethod.Raw)
                    {
                        var stream = new MemoryStream();
                        image.Save(stream, new PsdOptions(image)
                        {
                            CompressionMethod = CompressionMethod.RLE
                        });

                        return stream;
                    }
                }
            }

            // Can not be applied
            return null;
        }

        // Lossy methods.
        // 8 Bit Conversion
        Stream ApplyConversionTo8Bit(PsdImage image)
        {
            if (image.BitsPerChannel > 8)
            {
                var stream = new MemoryStream();
                image.Save(stream, new PsdOptions(image)
                {
                    ChannelBitsCount = 8
                });

                stream.Position = 0;

                return stream;
            }

            return null;
        }
       
        // RGBA Conversion
        Stream ApplyConversionToRGBA(PsdImage image)
        {
            if (image.ColorMode == ColorModes.Cmyk)
            {
                var stream = new MemoryStream();
                image.Save(stream, new PsdOptions(image)
                {
                    ColorMode = ColorModes.Rgb
                });

                stream.Position = 0;

                return stream;
            }

            return null;
        }

        // Layers merging
        Stream ApplyMergingLayers(PsdImage image)
        {
            if (image.Layers.Length > 1)
            {
                image.FlattenImage();
                var stream = new MemoryStream();
                image.Save(stream, new PsdOptions(image));

                stream.Position = 0;

                return stream;
            }

            return null;
        }

        // Remove Not Visible Layers
        Stream RemoveNotVisibleLayers(PsdImage image)
        {
            var layersSet = new List<Layer>();
            foreach (var layer in image.Layers)
            {
                // Can be applied
                if ((!layer.IsVisible || !layer.IsVisibleInGroup) && !(layer is LayerGroup))
                {
                    layersSet.Add(layer);
                }
            }

            image.Layers = layersSet.ToArray();
            var stream = new MemoryStream();
            image.Save(stream, new PsdOptions(image));

            return stream;
        }

You can download Aspose.PSD from Nuget package manager

Aspose.PSD compress features use the high-code API. The Compress PSD Solution is available in Java and .Net. You can use Aspose.PSD for compression or other tasks on the Back-end of your web-service.