How to edit PSD files in your browser

A .psd is Photoshop's native format, and it's really a container: separate layers, masks, text objects, adjustment layers and blend settings all stored side by side. The EditItAll photo editor works with standard flat images — PNG, JPG and WebP — so it can't crack open that layered container on its own.

The workaround is simple and honest: convert the PSD to a flat PNG first, then edit the PNG. You lose the separate layers in the process (more on that below), but for the vast majority of everyday edits — someone sent you a mockup and you need to tweak a colour, add a line of text, or export a web-ready copy — that's exactly what you need.

The whole thing is two quick steps, both running entirely on your device:

1. Open the PSD to PNG converter and drop in your .psd. It renders the flattened composite — everything you'd see with all layers visible — as a single PNG (you can pick JPG instead if you'd rather have a smaller file).
2. Take that PNG into the photo editor and keep working: add new layers, use the type tool for captions or titles, adjust levels and curves, retouch with the clone brush, apply filters, then export a PNG or JPG.

Because both tools run in your browser, your design never leaves your device — you can even work offline once the pages have loaded.

It's worth being clear about the trade-off. Converting to PNG produces a flattened image: all the original layers are merged into one, and the separate text, masks and adjustment layers are baked in. You can't later pull a single layer back out of the PNG, and editable text becomes pixels.

In the photo editor you can add new layers and text on top and work non-destructively from there — but the PSD's original layer structure is gone. If you genuinely need to keep those source layers editable, that's the one job that still calls for Photoshop itself; our Photoshop alternative guide covers where a browser editor fits and where it doesn't.

This flatten-then-edit route is ideal when you were handed a PSD and just need the outcome: a social banner exported at the right size, a client mockup with one line of text changed, a flyer saved as a shareable image. It's free, there's no watermark, and nothing is uploaded — so even a confidential design stays on your machine.

It's the wrong route only when the layered source file itself is the deliverable and has to stay fully editable. In that case you need the original application. For everything else, converting with the PSD to PNG tool and finishing in the photo editor gets the job done.