Working with Photoshop®

Working with Photoshop®

This doc is a work in progress as PSD and EPS handling are being improved almost daily in Scribus. Some of these features will only work on 1.3.4+ and require using the cairo rending engine, in place of the default libart rendering engine. The cairo renderer is the default for 1.3.5+

Overview

Adobe Photoshop is one of the world's best known software applications and widely used in professional graphics both in print and for web work. While I really enjoy and encourage the continued development of open source applications like Cinepaint, GIMP and Krita, sometimes Photoshop is the only application which can be used in certain cases - especially in the pre-press world. One of the sources of its power is the native PSD file format. A PSD file can not only hold image data, but is more of a large container which can include metadata, camera info, text, vector artwork and more. Most other programs only handle a small subset of its capabilities.

Other Special Types of EPS and PSD files from Photoshop

Spot Colors imported into a Tritone

Recommendations:

First, if you do have the native PSD file, by all means use it and enable embedding the correct ICC profile within Photoshop. This is done via Image > Mode > Convert to Profile within Photoshop.