A client sends a layered PSD. A designer hands over a template. You find an old Photoshop file from years ago. You need to change one layer, and you don't want to start a subscription to do it.
On a Mac, Preview and Photos can show you a flattened picture of a PSD, but they can't edit its layers. To actually work on the file, you need an editor that understands what's inside it.
Sablefilm Layers: your PSD, your layers
Sablefilm Layers opens real PSD and PSB files and shows them the way Photoshop does: layers, groups, pixel and vector masks, clipping, all 27 Photoshop blend modes, adjustment layers and layer effects such as shadows, glows, overlays and strokes. It handles 8, 16 and 32-bit files in RGB, greyscale, CMYK and Lab.
Edit, then save it back as a PSD
Change what you need, then save. Layers writes a PSD that Photoshop still opens as normal, so you can send it back to whoever sent it to you. Anything Layers doesn't understand is left exactly as it was, rather than flattened or thrown away.
What it isn't
Layers isn't a full Photoshop replacement. It doesn't yet have selections, transforms, text editing, filters or pixel painting. It's built for opening, adjusting and re-saving layered files, and for building simple composites.
Pair it with Sablefilm
If you also develop RAW photos, Sablefilm is the separate RAW editor. Develop in Sablefilm, export a TIFF, then open it in Layers as your first layer.
£9.99, once
No subscription, no account, no internet needed. It runs on macOS 14 or newer.
Get Sablefilm Layers for £9.99
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