Free Bridge clone to view PSD, Krita files?

USHiRi · February 5, 2020, 9:52am

Hi there! I have been looking for free version clone of Adobe photoshop
to view Krita and PSD files in. So far I really dont know which program that is best suitable for this.

So I´m open for any suggestions that you yourself uses that is free to use.
Cheers & Carrots!
Ushiri

Troken · February 5, 2020, 10:34am

I think XNView can do that. There is a Windows version and a multiplatform version called XNViewMP. I used then a lot a couple of years ago, really good Bridge alternatives.

And they are completely free for private use. No annoying ads or so.

Mako_Matt · February 5, 2020, 10:44am

Krita can open both .kra and .psd

Uradamus · February 5, 2020, 10:44am

I use qimgv. It’s quickly become my favorite viewer and opens pretty much everything I’ve thrown at it so far, including .krita and .psd as well as several video formats even.

raghukamath · February 5, 2020, 11:59am

On Linux, plasma desktop environment by KDE comes with Dolphin file manager which has preview for both psd and KRA files builtin.

Rakurri · February 5, 2020, 12:18pm

If you are using Windows, press alt + P in the file explorer to get a preview image of the picture you have selected, then it acts as Bridge, it’s very handy!

Then it will look like this: (and yes, I take way too many backups )

If it does not show up like that, you can reinstall the “Windows Shell Extension”, from Krita Desktop | Krita, that works for me! It also showed PSDs, but it stopped working for some reason, a reinstall of the Shell Extension have fixed it in the past!
Only annoying thing is the Krita Logo covering parts of the image in the viewer

USHiRi · February 5, 2020, 1:50pm

Thank you so much for a good list of programs

I saw that the Xnview came also as a buyable software. but I will try both XNView and qimgv and check out which seems moste efficent

mco I meant for viewing those file extensions from without Krita or photoshop.
Thanks regardless

CyMonk · February 5, 2020, 2:25pm

xnview doesn’t seem to support krita files.

https://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/#formats

almaceleste · June 24, 2021, 4:35pm

I’ve tried qimgv on Xubuntu 21.04 and it doesn’t show me .kra and .psd files. As like the qView app too.
I use qThumb to view .psd and .kra but it show only preview not fullsize image unfortunately.

Troken · June 24, 2021, 5:22pm

According to the Xnview-dev:
yes Krita is supported only by XnView MP
https://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=40329

So it should work.