How to Repair Photoshop PSD File Header?

Adobe Photoshop is the best graphics editing application used by ample number of professional as well as home computer users to create epic images. These amazing pictures will be referred as PSD file. But along the way of creating beautiful pictures using Photoshop, one might end up with corrupt image file due to vast reasons. One such factor that makes Photoshop PSD image file inaccessible is PSD file header.

PSD File header is the initial part of the file that holds all details regarding the image file, without which image becomes futile. Photoshop PSD comprises of different layers having depth of 1, 8, 16, 32 bits per channel. Also, user can make of various color modes to the images like RGB, CYMK, Bitmap, Gray scale and so on. All these details/ information of PSD image will be saved in its file header; hence PSD file header plays a vital role in accessing that PSD image. This header can get damaged or corrupt due to reasons like:

• Malware incursion is one of the most commonly occurring reason behind corrupt PSD file header
• Presence of bad sectors on the memory location of storage device like system hard drive where PSD file is saved can cause corruption of PSD file header and thus inaccessibility of image file
• Improper termination of Adobe Photoshop application while editing any PSD image on it can damage its file header
• Incorrect way of compressing the PSD file image using unreliable compression techniques can also corrupt the file header
• Also,PSD file header can get corrupt due to errors like CRC error during transferring the image over network
• Additionally, irregularities in the working of Adobe Photoshop application can also invoke PSD file header corruption / damage

Photoshop PSD image, whose header is corrupt / damaged, will no longer open on any image editing application. Hence, user may feel helpless at this situation, but not anymore; because raise of third party image repair utilities have eased the work of overcoming situations like inaccessibility of PSD file due to its header corruption.

Repair Photoshop PSD file header:

One of the best utility to fix Photoshop PSD file header effortlessly on Windows PC is Yodot PSD Repair. This tool can fix Adobe Photoshop PSD files that do not respond due to reasons like file corruption, virus infection, CRC error, invalid file format error, etc. just in few clicks. Enriched with excellent repair strategies, this software can also repair encrypted, large sized and multilayered Photoshop files created on Adobe Photoshop 5.5 5.0, CS, CS2, CS4, CS5, CS6 easily. The product suits to work on Windows platforms like Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008.

Guidelines to mend Photoshop PSD file header:

• Download Yodot PSD Repair tool on your Windows computer
• Install and launch the tool by going through given steps
• Now, browse and select the PSD file, whose header is corrupt with the help of Browse button
• Once you select PSD file to be repaired, click on repair button to start repair process
• The status of repair process will be displayed in progress bar
• Few seconds later, repaired PSD image file along with its different layers will be displayed on screen
• Examine the repaired PSD file using Preview option
• Next, save this fixed PSD file in desired location on the system drive using Save button

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