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PSB at a glance
PSB
Photoshop's native format became one of the de facto interchange anchors of raster design and retouching, even outside Adobe-only teams, because so many creative pipelines converged around its feature set.
SGI at a glance
SGI
Before today's relatively small set of mainstream consumer image formats dominated everyday use, desktop software, workstations, GUI systems, and early graphics tools produced many specialized raster formats with local importance.
Format comparison
| Feature | PSB | SGI |
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| File type | Image | Image |
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| Created year | 1990 | 1990 |
| Inventor | Adobe | Silicon Graphics Inc. |
| Status | proprietary | legacy |
| Transparency | Not supported | Not supported |
| Animation | Not supported | Not supported |
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| Layer support | Supported | Not supported |
| Vector scaling | Not supported | Not supported |
| Camera raw data | Not supported | Not supported |
| HDR support | Not supported | Not supported |
| Streaming ready | Not supported | Not supported |
When to use each format
When to use PSB
- Your source file is already in PSB.
- Preserve source expectations before exporting to SGI.
- PSB is commonly used in image workflows.
When to use SGI
- Your target workflow expects SGI.
- Improve delivery compatibility with SGI.
- SGI is commonly used in image workflows.
FAQs
Why convert PSB to SGI?
Convert to SGI when recovering or maintaining compatibility with workstation-era graphics assets and archives.
It is useful mainly for migration, restoration, and historical graphics interoperability.
What changes when converting PSB to SGI?
This conversion changes how the format behaves in downstream tools and delivery environments.
Moving to SGI removes layer support.
What should I review after converting PSB to SGI?
Validate output quality on representative files and confirm the target format behaves correctly in the destination workflow.