Advanced PSD Add-on is a powerful component for creating personalized graphics like greeting and business cards, booklets, brochures and so on. Advanced PSD Add-on is provided only with the Pro version of Graphics Mill. This add-on reads the content of the PSD file, including raster layers (i.e. bitmaps) and text layers. Then it can merge the content of the PSD file with your custom content, creating the final product.
For example, you have a PSD template of a business card. Advanced PSD Add-on takes the PSD template and inserts your custom text and photo into the card. You can input your name via a web form (see online demo), retrieve it from database, etc.
View Demo
If you are interested in viewing the source code of this demo, download the evaluation version of Advanced PSD Add-on.
Features
Advanced PSD Add-on includes the following features:
- Read raster layers:
- Get the bitmap from the layer;
- Get the name of the layer;
- Get dimensions of the layer;
- Identify pixel format;
- Identify visibility of the layer;
- Define the position of top left corner of the bitmap.
- Read text layers:
- Get the text layer as bitmap (the same features as for raster layers);
- Get text string;
- Get text font;
- Get text color;
- Get text region size;
- Get paragraph settings.
- Get number of layers;
- Get pre-rendered preview of the PSD file (with all layers merged);
- Support PSD files created in all Adobe® Photoshop® versions since 7 (including Photoshop CS2).
Based on Graphics Mill, this add-on provides wide imaging functionality. Thus, you get really powerful pre-print processing tool. In particular you can:
- Scan PSD file with raster and text layers.
- Merge all frames into one image (TIFF, PDF, JPEG, etc).
- When merging, replace text or images, e.g. by loading it from database or localization resources.
- Create multiple versions of image for different viewing environments (e.g. hi-res for printing, lo-res for web preview, or even specially optimized for mobile devices).
- Provide CMYK <-> RGB conversion with color management (using ICC profiles).
- Manipulate most wide-spread layer settings, such as text font, color, position, size, etc.
Graphics Mill for .NET + Advanced PSD Add-on is a powerful and cost-effective solution for creating personalized graphics.
