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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

Reduce size of PSD Files

Reduce size of large PSD is a simple operation if you use Aspose.PSD. Reducing of the size can be archieved by removing cache data from PSD Files, Merging Layers, Converting to PSD Format with the less bit per color amount. Also, you can change color mode of PSD File, for example change from CMYK color to RGBA Color reduces the PSD file size. This app used not-documented features of PSD format, so the final result can be broken. Please use PSD File Reduce only if you clear know what you want to archive.

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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 for .NET

        // Lossless PSD file reduce operation
        // 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 to reduce size of PSD
        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 of PSD Size Reducing
        // 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 for .NET from Nuget package manager

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

    public class CompressionUtils {

    public static OutputStream removeCacheData(PsdImage image) {
        for (Layer layer : image.getLayers()) {
            if (layer instanceof TextLayer || layer instanceof FillLayer) {
                layer.saveArgb32Pixels(layer.getBounds(), new int[layer.getBounds().getWidth() * layer.getBounds().getHeight()]);
            }
        }

        ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        image.save(stream, new PsdOptions(image));

        return stream;
    }

    public static OutputStream applyRleCompression(PsdImage image) {
        for (Layer layer : image.getLayers()) {
            for (var channelInformation : layer.getChannelInformation()) {
                if (channelInformation.getCompressionMethod() == CompressionMethod.Raw) {
                    ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                    image.save(stream, new PsdOptions(image) {{
                        setCompressionMethod(CompressionMethod.RLE);
                    }});

                    return stream;
                }
            }
        }

        return null;
    }

    public static OutputStream applyConversionTo8Bit(PsdImage image) {
        if (image.getBitsPerChannel() > 8) {
            ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            image.save(stream, new PsdOptions(image) {{
                setChannelBitsCount(8);
            }});

            stream.Position = 0;

            return stream;
        }

        return null;
    }

    public static OutputStream applyConversionToRGBA(PsdImage image) {
        if (image.getColorMode() == ColorModes.Cmyk) {
            ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            image.save(stream, new PsdOptions(image) {{
                setColorMode(ColorModes.Rgb);
            }});

            stream.Position = 0;

            return stream;
        }

        return null;
    }

    public static OutputStream applyMergingLayers(PsdImage image) {
        if (image.getLayers().length > 1) {
            image.flattenImage();
            ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            image.save(stream, new PsdOptions(image));

            stream.Position = 0;

            return stream;
        }

        return null;
    }

    public static OutputStream removeNotVisibleLayers(PsdImage image) {
        List layersSet = new ArrayList<>();
        for (Layer layer : image.getLayers()) {
            if ((!layer.isVisible() || !layer.isVisibleInGroup()) && !(layer instanceof LayerGroup)) {
                layersSet.add(layer);
            }
        }

        image.setLayers(layersSet.toArray(new Layer[0]));
        ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        image.save(stream, new PsdOptions(image));

        return stream;
    }
}

You can download Aspose.PSD for Java from Aspose Repository

This App is completely free, but it just a small piece of functionality that offers for you Aspose.PSD library. You can make your own app with any functionality of Aspose.PSD. If you can not find needed feature in Aspose.PSD, you can post on PSD Support Forum. The great support, different priceing plans, prioritized bug fixes and feature releasing for the Paid Support Customers.

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Aspose.PSD for .NET has the version for the most popular .NET versions including: .NET Framework 2, 3.5, 4.0, 4.0CP, .netstandard 2, .NET 5, 6, 7. Version of .NET Library for .NET 7 is suitable for the mobile development
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If you need to reduce size of PSB file instead of PSD, you can use minor modification of this app. Please check the "Reduce size of PSB" application.