PSD to BMP Converter

PSD is Adobe Photoshop's native project format, preserving layers, masks, and editable text rather than a single flattened image.

Unlike JPG or PNG, a PSD file isn't meant to be a finished, shareable image — it's a working file that preserves every layer, adjustment, mask, and editable text box exactly as you left them, so a design can be picked back up and revised later. That editability comes at the cost of portability: a PSD only opens fully in Photoshop or a small number of compatible editors, and it needs to be flattened and exported to something like PNG or JPG before it can be viewed on the web or by someone without the right software.

BMP is an old Windows bitmap format that stores pixel data with little or no compression — simple, but large.

BMP dates back to the earliest versions of Microsoft Windows, where it was used as the native format for storing raw pixel grids with minimal processing overhead — appropriate for the modest CPUs of the era, but wasteful by modern standards. Because it stores pixels close to as-is, a BMP file opens instantly and never introduces compression artifacts, but it can be five to ten times larger than a JPEG of the same image. Today it mostly survives in legacy Windows software and a few specialized pipelines that specifically want uncompressed pixel data.