File Support for Artists Software

Feature requests
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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:

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:

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

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