Personally, I love Photoshop’s PSD file format. It’s a way to save everything that’s going on in the image editor at a given moment, so you can pick up work later, or incorporate slight changes in an elaborate file without having to start from scratch.

However, a lot of people – image artists included – aren’t ready or willing to spend the money for this expensive image editing suite. Whether your friend send you an important file, or you downloaded a PSD file from the Internet, it can be a real chore to work with if you don’t own a copy of Adobe Photoshop yourself.

Luckily, there’s some free tools that allow us to work around this restriction; free applications that allow you to view and edit a PSD file in a familiar editing environment.