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I am looking for PSD files viewer. Gimp is too fat for this job. I need something fast and light.

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You may like Kuickshow.

"KuickShow is an image browser/viewer with a nice filebrowser to select images to be shown, slideshow support and the ability to display the following image formats: jpg, gif, tiff, png, bmp, psd, xpm, xbm, pbm and eim. Images can be displayed either in their own window, as large as the image, or fullscreen (which shrinks images too large to display). KuickShow also has a slideshow mode."

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  • How to install it in Ubuntu 11.04?
    – Mikl
    Sep 22, 2011 at 14:53
  • You will have to download from the site: kuickshow.sourceforge.net/index.html#download
    – desgua
    Sep 23, 2011 at 0:22
  • @desgua does it have a modern succesor? This seems like very outdated (2003) and without simple installer
    – jave.web
    Dec 19, 2018 at 8:44
  • @jave.web I'm not aware of a modern successor.
    – desgua
    Dec 20, 2018 at 11:05
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XnViewMP is very good doing the job.

Download it from http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/

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  • XnView can't be used in Company setting. It can be used for free only when for personal use, not professional use : have to get License (paid). i.e. : is provided as Freeware for private non-commercial or educational use (including non-profit organization). check: xnview.com/wiki/index.php/License Kuickshow License is GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2) -- just my 0.25cents
    – justMy0.00025cents
    Jun 7, 2014 at 5:59
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Nomacs is a fast and easy to use program: https://nomacs.org/

Edit: From the Nomacs landing-page its a:

... free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images.

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  • What does it do?
    – Pierre.Vriens
    Sep 26, 2018 at 15:39
  • @Pierre.Vriens It's a software for viewing PSD files really fast. Unlike Gimp, this doesn't need heavy module loading during start-up and its interface is quite pleasable to look at.
    – Maki Vlach
    Sep 26, 2018 at 22:24
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For simply previewing PSDs I use ImageMagick - fast and displays them properly. Also it's free and available via apt.

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  • I am not sure what did you meant specificaly, however what I do is to use ImageMagick (sudo apt install imagemagick) commands to generate thumbnails, to get combined layer, you need to address it by [0] so convert *.psd[0] *.png will convert all PSDs to PNG previews (convert command is from imagemagick package)
    – jave.web
    Dec 19, 2018 at 10:48
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Besides Photoshop, I believe GIMP is your best option. Might be the closest to Photoshop.

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    Not at all, since GIMP is trying to convert PSD to its own system, therefore data/layer loss/missinterpretation is pretty frequent. It is good for determinating what is aproximately in the PSD or for really simple and standard PSDs.
    – jave.web
    Dec 19, 2018 at 10:23

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