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PSD vs PSB?

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January 20, 2023
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Does anyone know the actual diff in performance or usage of PSD vs PSB?
Aside from 2gb or larger PSDs needing to be PSB?

Does it affect day to day performance, load speed, tools speed, etc?

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Correct answer Kevin Stohlmeyer

File format shouldn't have anything to do with performance. It's the overall size of the file.

If you have a file large enough that you need to save as a .psb - there could be ramifications if your computer is not capable of handling larger files like this.

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wanderer

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Why doesn't Lightroom Classic allow sending files to Photoshop in psb? That would be A LOT BETTER than waiting 3-4 minutes for Photoshop to save a file, only to say "Oh, it is too big. Need to save in psb". Then popping up a Save As dialog - I ALWAYS want to put it in the same directory as the original for Lightroom to see it - then waiting another 2-3 minutes to save it. This experience is not smooth.

Imaginerie

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They are absolutely the same as Kevin stated (no improvement in terms of speed). The fact that all photoshop files aren't .psb is a problem of retro-compatibility (with older versions of Photoshop and also other apps that support .psd - say - Fresco, Premiere, After effects)
You can see the official Adobe documentation there:
https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/

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Gene27167201cqusAuthor

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interesting, cus i was thinkgin then shouldnt PSB just be the standard?
If theres no diff in performance, then why does PSD exist, just have everything be in PSB from1mb to 20gb and more no?

but as you say, its a matter of having had PSD for so long that other programs only supported it...

but if we were to only use PS, then would it not make sense to just keep PSB as our default file type?

D Fosse

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It'll probably have to happen sooner or later. But it's not long ago that we finally got PSB support in Lightroom, an Adobe application. These things move slowly.

D Fosse

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PSB is just PSD without the 2GB size limit.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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File format shouldn't have anything to do with performance. It's the overall size of the file.

If you have a file large enough that you need to save as a .psb - there could be ramifications if your computer is not capable of handling larger files like this.

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