File Support for Artists Software

[Chronicler]

I would like to be able to organize art files, coexist in a text environment, rename and open in preferred software.
Right now, even though i can link my art files, Obsidian displays a “open microsoft app store” to look for a software in the store to open the file instead of displaying my apps and software that have that i can open it in. (So i can link the file, but its not really a link because i can’t open it… i can use it as a reminder and a copy and paste it in my machines file explorer though.)
File support requests:
.psd (photoshop), .clip (clip studio paint), .sai (paint tool sai), .kra (Krita).
These are all the main power files that i can think of.
If this can be done, it would be an absolutely amazing game changer for the messy artist!

[I-d-as]

I second this but think there is already a topic about being able to open from Obsidian. I will try and find it. Well, maybe I was wrong, but I found these:

Open external file on Windows opens Store dialog instead of the file

we will have better support for external files in 0.7 using file:///

Other Files: Excel, Word and Text

Dear All, I like the idea that Obsidian can open files in default app. I use Obsidian to manage different self-contained projects and it would be fantastic if additional files such as XLS, DOCX and TXT could be opened in their default app. I am not suggesting that a function to view these files within Obsidian (although it would be great if that possible especially for TXT). I think it is enough to simply right click and open that file externally but the name of these files does not show in th…

It might be cool to be able to support/preview non raster files as well (opportunity for plugin viewers maybe), or even just link to with customizable thumbnails. For example, I could render a recent version of a character and drop a link to the 3ds Max scene file with that render set as a thumbnail. The wheels are turning and I really appreciate the road that your post has brought me down.

I am sure this or something close to thumbnail thing is already possible, but the thing about linking to these art files would be cool as part of a roadmap of where you have come from and plan to go with a project. Like maybe you already start making notes and linking to a file in a step of your project that has yet to be completed, so that later when it is, you can follow up with all of your intentions, and then later on be able to really review the workflow. This is exciting. It is nice to meet another artist using Obsidian this way. I am sure there are plenty, or at least there should be. Honestly I think it will be the single piece of software that most helps me keep everything moving forward.

Thanks.

[untitled]

The request is old, but at the moment file formats are opened in applications by default, at least for me.
But I’m more interested in the ability to embed files (previews, thumbnails (![[]])) mentioned by I-d-as.

At the moment it is possible to embed .psd files using the Image Magician community plugin, but it does not support the .kra format. I have not tested .csp and .sai formats.

But “Artists Software” is not only software for 2D graphics, but also for 3D graphics (as already indirectly mentioned by I-d-as ), where there is a huge number of proprietary formats.
If I am not mistaken, either in Krita documentation or on the forum, someone mentioned that in order to realize import of Photoshop brushes (.abr), developers had to reverse-engineer this file format.
If you take into account all the variety of formats, you get quite a lot of work for a rather narrowly specialized function, not quite, in my opinion, fitting into what Obsidian was created for and continues to be created for.
So this feature seems more appropriate for Plugins Ideas than Feature Request… But then again, for Plugin Ideas it seems like a lot of work for someone to implement it…

However, support for embedding .kra / .psd files is something I’d really like to have… And that’s what’s preventing me from switching to taking hand-written notes, despite the lack of all the other functionality mentioned by rigmarole:

@rigmarole

It’s not just something you can tack on top. It would be an entirely different domain of design, user experience, storage format, link structure, OCR search, debugging, hardware support, etc.

It’s extremely easy for you to type the phrase, “include handwriting”.

Embedding the .kra / .psd format in a .md file with the ability to assign properties to that file and leave links in it as plain text would be sufficient. But that would solve only my rare need rather than satisfy the rest of the community needing functionality for hand-written notes.

But the current ability to embed .psd files using the community plugin seems too unreliable to base all notes on that.

The answer turned out to be somewhat cross-topic:

• Drawing/Sketching support for users who use styluses/tablets
• Canvas — Drawing and Pencil or Pen support

… as it applies to both embedding unsupported file formats and taking hand-written notes using those file formats.