This file is part of "psdrecover", a File Format
    plugin for Adobe Photoshop
    Copyright (C) 2007 Toby Thain, toby@telegraphics.com.au

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License  
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

    
How to use
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Once the plugin is placed in Photoshop's Plug-ins folder, and Photoshop
has been relaunched,

1. File menu -> Open...
2. Select the PSD file you wish to extract from
3. Choose "PSD Extract/Recover" from the format popup menu
4. Click OK, and if the document has layers, a dialog appears for you
   to choose which layer you wish to extract (or the merged image)
5. Click OK. The layer should appear in a new window.

You can re-open the same PSD to grab more layers.


Notes
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** The plugin may override Photoshop's built-in PSD/PSB format reader.
If you find Photoshop defaulting to this plugin, just remove it and
re-launch Photoshop. **

Trying to open PSBs larger than 30,000 pixels high or wide won't work.
Smaller ones will be fine, however.

In older versions of Photoshop (Mac 5.5 for instance), you will need to
check [X] Show All Files in the Open dialog, in order to choose this
plugin. (Otherwise PSDs will be opened by Photoshop's built-in format.)

ONLY image layers are extracted (not any other layer type).

There is currently no access to layer masks, alpha channels and spot
channels. This is planned to be added. If you need this right now,
or if you need to extract/recover many layers, you can use
my psdparse tool:

	http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#psdparse

This tool processes and exports ALL layers and channels of a PSD to PNG
in one operation.