If you are a lover of photography, design or image retouching, then you are sure to use Photoshop almost daily. And is that when we talk about creativity or photo retouching, Adobe‘s tool is undoubtedly the most used worldwide. Now, there is nothing worse than after dedicating a lot of effort and hours of work, when opening a project we find that the file is damaged and cannot be opened. If you have encountered this unpleasant situation, we show below how to recover or repair a damaged PSD file .
Recall that the file format with which any project is saved in Photoshop is .PSD and is where we will be able to access all the layers and effects applied for modification. Now, if at first we find that when opening a PSD an error message is displayed because the file is damaged or corrupt, we should not be alarmed. And it is that thanks to a tool like PSD Repair Kit , we can recover or repair a PSD quickly and easily.
An application that has been designed to be able to analyze the damage caused to a file, identify the recoverable elements and extract them from the corrupt file to preserve the maximum possible original content and offer the user a file ready to use again in Photoshop.
Steps to follow to repair a damaged PSD file
First of all, download and install PSD Repair Kit on our computer, something we can do completely free of charge from this link to the official website of the tool. This will save us an .exe file on our computer, which we must execute to begin with its installation. An assistant will guide us and in a few moments we will have the program installed on our PC.
Now we can launch PSD Repair Kit on our desktop. We will see how it has a very simple interface to handle. All we have to do is select the damaged PSD file that we want to repair from the button with the icon of a folder and go to the path of the disk where we have the file to be repaired.
After clicking on the Next button, the information retrieved from the Photoshop file will be shown, indicating its structure, layers, headers, properties, etc.
Pressing the Next button again will show us a list of all the properties that we want to try to recover from our damaged PSD file. By default we will see that all of them appear selected, but we can select at our whim the layers we want to recover. That’s where we can choose the path where we want the recovered file to be saved and the name of the file.
Finally, press the Recover button and the Photoshop file recovery process will automatically start. Once finished, we can go to the path of the recovered file and open it with Photoshop to verify that everything is correct.
If we use the trial or demo version of PSD Repair Kit , we will see that during the recovery process we will get a message indicating that the recovered file will be displayed with noise and that to remove it we will have to buy the license. Although it is shown with noise, it can help us to check if the result is what we expected and in that case, assess the option to buy the license, which on the other hand has a cost of only 27 dollars if we are going to make a personal use her. PSD Repair Kit is compatible with Windows and at the moment it is not compatible with other platforms such as MacOS, iOS or Android.
However, it is also possible to use the online version of PSD Repair Kit , which without the need for installations allows us to repair a damaged PSD file and we will only have to pay for each recovered file.
Recover a damaged PSD file from the web browser
On this occasion, all we have to do is open a window of our browser and access the PSD Repair Kit online site . Next, we will find a kind of form where we have to select the damaged PSD file, indicate our email address and enter the security captcha code.
With all this ready, click on the Next Step button to begin the process of uploading our file, analyzing and repairing it. In a few moments, it will depend on the size and quantity of elements of the PSD file, a message will be displayed indicating that the file has been recovered.
All we have left is to pay for the recovery of the file, which has a cost of 10 dollars and does not require us to buy the license, since it offers us the possibility to pay only for each recovery we make. This also gives us the advantage of being able to recover a damaged PSD file from any computer, mobile or tablet, since we will not have to have the program installed, only a web browser.
