
Online PSD to Sketch file converter - helloiamvu
http://avocode.com/convert-psd-to-sketch
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helloiamvu
Hi everyone!

I'm very excited to show you our new tool.

It's a free online PSD to Sketch Converter. If you're manually re-creating
designs from Photoshop into Sketch, now you don't have to.

It converts named layers, layer groups, basic layer effects, layer masks,
vector shapes, text layers and more.

Let me know your thoughts. I hope you will like it.

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agopaul
Nice! Are you using an ExtendScript script to extract all the info? Or is it
an in-house C++ extension for Photoshop?

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helloiamvu
We're actually using our own technology to parse PSD files without using any
Photoshop API. We're already working on other design formats as well.

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agopaul
That's impressive! I read a few stories about reverse engineering the PSD
format and how much technical debt it carries in it

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Xoros
"Notwithstanding the above, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free,
transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, store, display,
reproduce, re-post, modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute
User Content on the Site or Application or other third party websites or
application..."

Well... no

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girvo
Neat! I've been a super happy user of Avocode for years, and I'm stoked to see
you lot continue to innovate :)

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brailsafe
Works quite well so far. Opened some giant ass old PSD files and was able to
start tweaking the design right away.

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goeric
Super useful, thank you!

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dkonofalski
I'm guessing that the lack of detail on this is really an explanation for
expectations of this. It probably doesn't work well for anything complex but,
if it works halfway decently, this could be a boon for those trying to get out
from under the dark Adobe umbrella.

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usaphp
> I'm guessing that the lack of detail on this is really an explanation for
> expectations of this

What details do you expect? It's a PSD to Sketch converter, what else do you
expect it to say? He could have filled it with a "gorgeous", "unique",
"innovative" marketing keywords but it would still be a PSD To Sketch
converter.

> It probably doesn't work well for anything complex but

I just tried converting a really big photoshop file and it worked pretty good,
why don't you try it before making comments on it's functionality?

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on_and_off
Knowing in advance which kind of layers won't be converted successfully sounds
reasonable to me.

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MattRoskovec
As the matter of fact, when you enter the website:
[https://avocode.com/convert-psd-to-sketch/](https://avocode.com/convert-psd-
to-sketch/) \- there is a call to action to "Read more about supported
features". If you click it, you would see a page explaining what will and what
won't be converted. Here's the link: [https://avocode.com/convert-psd-to-
sketch/features](https://avocode.com/convert-psd-to-sketch/features)

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jbob2000
Ugghhh, if you're using this, then you don't really grok Sketch. Sketch has
all these wonderful tools for breaking up your design into reuseable
components and playing with them like lego pieces. If you're doing a straight
conversion from PSD to Sketch, you're missing all the things that make Sketch
great.

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matousroskovec
When you're starting from scratch in Sketch it has a lot of great features
that are worth exploring. But what about making the switch to Sketch from PS?
Normally, you would have to recreate the whole design. Most people and
especially bigger design teams don't have time for that. So this service is
meant to save you all that time, convert your current design system and then
you can play around with the design some more and add all the wicked funtions
in Sketch anyway. And I'm sure others can think of more use cases.

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jbob2000
Well that's my point. If you don't have the time to convert your design
system, then you might as well stick with PS until you do. You'd just be using
Sketch as PS-Lite. It's not a "cheap PS" or a PS-lite, it's a tool for a new
system of design.

It would be like using JIRA for Waterfall development. Sure, you _can_ do
that, but that's not really the point of JIRA...

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Raphmedia
Consider the use case where the designer doesn't have PS but receive a bunch
of third party .PSD files.

