{"id":52666,"date":"2022-05-31T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/how-to-save-dds-files-in-photoshop-2\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:42:55","slug":"how-to-save-dds-files-in-photoshop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/how-to-save-dds-files-in-photoshop-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to save dds files in photoshop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photoshop<\/strong> does not support that format.<\/p>\n<p>Beside above, how do I <strong>save<\/strong> a DDS file? To save it as a DDS file, select the Export As option from the File menu and specify the file name and extension. Or we can choose the <strong>DDS<\/strong> file type by expanding the Select File Type option from the bottom of the above Export As window.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, how do I export a Photoshop file to DDS? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Upload psd-file(s) Select <strong>files<\/strong> from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.<\/li>\n<li>Choose &#8220;to dds&#8221; Choose dds or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)<\/li>\n<li>Download your <strong>dds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Frequent question, what programs save <strong>DDS<\/strong> files? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>File Viewer Plus \u2014 Get it from Microsoft.<\/li>\n<li>Windows Texture Viewer.<\/li>\n<li>XnViewMP.<\/li>\n<li>dotPDN paint.net.<\/li>\n<li>ImageMagick.<\/li>\n<li>IrfanView with IrfanView Formats plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Photoshop with NVIDIA DDS plugin.<\/li>\n<li>GIMP with DDS plugin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In this regard, how do I convert JPG to DDS? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Upload jpg-file(s) Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.<\/li>\n<li>Choose &#8220;to <strong>dds<\/strong>&#8221; Choose <strong>dds<\/strong> or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)<\/li>\n<li>Download your dds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>What are DDS files?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>A DDS file is a binary file that contains the following information: A DWORD (magic number) containing the four character code value &#8216;DDS &#8216; (0x20534444). A description of the data in the file. The data is described with a header description using DDS_HEADER; the pixel format is defined using DDS_PIXELFORMAT.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you edit DDS images?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open Photoshop.<\/li>\n<li>Select File > Open.<\/li>\n<li>Find and select your DDS file then select Open.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Can GIMP edit DDS?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>GIMP, an open-source image editor, doesn&#8217;t support editing of DDS files by default, but installing the GIMP DDS plugin makes the program DDS-compatible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I download DDS from GIMP?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21-U-4Ul4zM\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I open a DDS file in Photoshop 2022?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6yimyuWzgkg\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Is DDS better than PNG?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>They accomplish different things, really. PNG stores images in a compressed, lossless format that is optimized for storage on disk. DDS stores textures in formats that are native to the GPU, and hence optimized for GPU consumption.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I install Intel texture in Photoshop?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Close Photoshop.<\/li>\n<li>Download the IntelTextureWorks_1.0.4.zip file and expand it on your local computer.<\/li>\n<li>Copy the desired plugin from either of the following unzipped folders.  <\/li>\n<li>Paste the plugin into the appropriate Photoshop Plugin folder.  <\/li>\n<li>Copy the cubemap scripts from:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I use Nvidia texture tools in Photoshop?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_11o0qvwDU\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I convert a JPEG to a normal picture?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>You can also right-click the file, point to the \u201cOpen With\u201d menu, and then click the \u201cPreview\u201d option. In the Preview window, click the \u201cFile\u201d menu and then click the \u201cExport\u201d command. In the window that pops up, select JPEG as the format and use the \u201cQuality\u201d slider to change the compression used to save the image.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Is DDS lossless?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>The problem is simple: DDS is a lossy compressed format. Every time you go from an uncompressed\/losslessly compressed format (like PNG, TIFF, or BMP) to a lossy format (like DDS or JPEG) you are going to lose a little bit of image quality.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I view DDS thumbnails?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Allows you to view . dds files in Thumbnail view in the Windows Explorer. If you&#8217;re working with DDS textures, you may also find our DDS Utilities, Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins, and Windows Texture Viewer to be useful.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Can paint open DDS?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>A DDS FileType plugin that allows Paint.NET to open and save the the some of formats introduced in DirectX 10 and later. This plugin is bundled with Paint.NET 4.2. 2 and later. If you need the features from a newer version you can still install the plugin.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Can blender open DDS files?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Blender does open . dds files, though Cycles currently has a bug in 2.79 where some . dds image textures can&#8217;t be seen in rendered viewport or in the final image, showing a pink texture instead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How install Nvidia DDS plugin for Photoshop cs6?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FG17FyyW_gY\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I change a PNG to a DDS?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Upload png-file(s) Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.<\/li>\n<li>Choose &#8220;to dds&#8221; Choose dds or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)<\/li>\n<li>Download your dds.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photoshop does not support that format. Beside above, how do I save a DDS file? To save it as a DDS file, select the Export As option from the File menu and specify the file name and extension. Or we can choose the DDS file type by expanding the Select File Type option from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}