Ship a PSD's artwork at AVIF weight?
Design composites at the web's smallest sizes, straight from the working file, no export chain.
Runs in your browser. Your file never leaves your computer.
- ForHeroes, artwork, big visuals
- WeightThe minimum browsers accept
- SourceThe PSD composite, direct
- EncodePatient, local, once
Hero images and artwork panels take the biggest bites of page weight, and shipping them as AVIF minimises it. Converting straight from the PSD skips the export-then-optimise chain: the flattened composite feeds the encoder directly, transparency included, at the strongest compression browsers accept. Encoding is unhurried, particularly on large canvases, and runs locally. Old-software compatibility remains AVIF's trade, irrelevant when the target is a modern site with fallbacks.
Questions
Why convert from the PSD rather than an exported PNG?
Fewer steps and identical input quality: the composite is what the PNG would have contained anyway. The chain shortens, the result matches.
How slow is slow, for encoding?
Large canvases can take a minute. It happens once, on your machine, and buys the smallest deliverable.
What about 16-bit master files?
Refused with a message; export an 8-bit RGB copy from the design tool first.
Related conversions
- PSD to PNGThe flattened Photoshop composite as a lossless image, transparency intact, no Photoshop required.
- PSD to JPGSend the design for review without sending Photoshop along: the composite at quality 85, made locally.
- PSD to WebPFrom working file to servable image in one local step, lossless or lossy as the content warrants.
- PSD to PDFThe composite on a proper page, viewable in every boardroom and inbox, produced without Adobe software.
- PNG to AVIFAVIF pushes past WebP for photographic content, at the cost of slower encoding and older-software support.
- JPG to AVIFRoughly half the bytes of the JPG at matching visible quality. Worth it where load time is money.
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