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Beta · Free to design · Runs in your browser

Free online design tool that opens PSD layers

Design social posts, display ads and emails from scratch — or drop in a PSD and keep every layer, with its text still editable. Export PNG, JPG, SVG or a layered PSD, and share a link your client can comment on.

Nothing to install, no signup to design. Your files are opened on your own computer — never uploaded to be converted.
What it does

A design canvas, in a browser tab.

Open a PSD as layers

Artboards, groups, masks, blend modes, shadows, strokes, overlays and shape layers come across as Photoshop draws them, and text layers stay text you can edit.

Design from scratch

Ready sizes for social, display ads, email and print. Frames, shapes, lines, text and images; snapping, groups, align and spread, undo.

Export every format

PNG at 1×, 2× or 3×, JPG, SVG with live text, or a layered PSD — one frame or all of them in a single .zip.

Share for comments

With PRO: a link your client opens with no account, pins comments on, and your team answers and resolves — with a password if you like.

How it works

Three steps, all in your browser.

1

Pick a size or open a file

Choose Instagram, a display-ad size, an email or your own size — or drop a PSD, SVG, PNG, JPG or WebP anywhere on the page.

2

Design it

Draw, type and place images inside frames; move with snapping, resize from the corners, set colours, fonts and opacity on the right.

3

Export or share

Download PNG, JPG, SVG or a layered PSD. With PRO, save it to your team's files and send a link people can comment on.

Why ours

Made for quick studio work.

Text that stays text

A PSD's headlines open looking exactly as Photoshop drew them and edit as live text, so a copy change is typing, not a trip back to Photoshop. Missing fonts get a close stand-in and a note.

Back to a PSD

Export a layered PSD with every layer named and in place, for whoever finishes the job in Photoshop.

Yours, on your terms

It runs in your browser and keeps designs there. Designing is free; a free account exports 2 designs, and PRO adds unlimited exports, saving and comment links.

At a glance

Studio Canvas vs Figma

Start from a social, display-ad, email or print size and design with frames, shapes, text and images — or open a PSD and keep every layer, with its text still editable. Export PNG, JPG, SVG or a layered PSD. Figma is the bigger design platform, with prototyping and developer hand-off; this is the quick studio canvas, free to design in.

Studio CanvasFigma Professional
PriceFree · to design; 2 free exports, PRO unlimitedUS$20/mo · a full seat, billed monthly — US$16/mo on the annual plan
Opens a PSD with its layers, text left editableYes · effects, shapes, groups, artboards and masks too—
Export a layered PSDYes · every layer named and in place—
Export PNG, JPG and SVGYes · 1×, 2× or 3×; several frames in one .zipYes
A link clients view and comment on, no accountYes · with PRO; a password if you likeYes · on paid plans
Several people editing at the same moment— · next on our listYes
Part of a 39‑tool studio, one priceYes · $35/mo unlocks all 39 with PRONo

Figma’s price read on figma.com/pricing on 30 October 2026 with the billing toggle on Monthly — the page opens on the annual rate (US$16 a month). Figma does far more than this tool — prototyping, Dev Mode, design systems; this table compares the job of designing a social post, banner or email and sharing it for comments, not the products. A dash means the feature is not one we have checked on their side, or one we do not have yet. Figma is not affiliated with DigiLakshya.

Finish it in Studio Tools

Animate it, build it, get it approved.

Turn a layered design into an animated HTML5 banner in the HTML5 Ads Builder, make a coded page from a PSD with PSD to HTML, or send a set of sizes to your client for approval with Ad Preview.

Open Studio Canvas
FAQ

Quick answers.

Can I open a PSD and keep the layers?
Yes. Drop a PSD on the page and it opens as layers: artboards become frames, groups stay groups, and masks, clipping, blend modes, opacity, hidden layers and Colour Overlay come across. Shadows, strokes, glows, bevels, colour and gradient overlays, shape layers and fill layers are drawn the way Photoshop draws them, so the file opens looking like it does there — in our tests on real banners, under 1% of pixels differed, a faint fringe on text edges. Text layers stay editable text, mixed fonts and colours included. Each layer's effects are part of its image; smart objects come in as images; and adjustment layers are applied to the layers beneath them rather than staying separate layers, which on a file that stacks blend modes under them can shift tones slightly.
What if I don't have the PSD's fonts?
The text still looks right: it shows exactly what Photoshop drew until you edit it. Once you edit it, the font from the PSD is used if it is installed on your computer (it is never uploaded or served anywhere); if it is missing, a similar font stands in, the text box widens so the lines still break where Photoshop broke them, and a note names the fonts to install. You can switch any text to one of 26 web fonts in a click.
Can I design from scratch?
Yes. Pick a size — Instagram post or story, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube thumbnail, the display-ad sizes (300×250, 728×90, 300×600, 160×600, 970×250, 320×50), email, presentation, desktop, phone, A4 — or type your own. Then draw frames, rectangles, ellipses, lines and text, and place images. Things snap to edges and centres as you move them; Alt-drag makes a copy; the Layers panel reorders, groups, hides, locks and renames.
What can I export?
PNG (1×, 2× or 3×), JPG, SVG — with text kept as text and shapes as shapes — or a layered PSD with every layer named and in place (text arrives as pixels in the PSD for now). Export one frame or all of them; several files come as one .zip.
Can my client comment on a design?
Yes, with PRO. Save the design to your account and press Share: anyone with the link opens it in their browser — no account — and, on a comment link, clicks on the design to leave a note under their name. Your team replies and resolves in the editor, and a new comment shows on your bell. A link can ask for a password, shows how often it was opened, and can be switched off any time. The page carries no Studio Tools name, so it reads as your own work.
Is anything uploaded?
Not unless you choose to. Studio Canvas runs in your browser and keeps your designs in your browser — a PSD is read on your computer, never sent to be converted. With PRO, Save to account keeps a design in your team's files so you can open it on any computer; from then on it saves by itself.
Can several people work on the same design?
Your team shares saved designs: anyone in it opens and edits them, and if a teammate saved a newer version since you opened yours, you are asked which to keep rather than overwriting their work. Editing at the same moment, with everyone's cursors on the canvas, is the next thing we are building.
Is it free?
Designing, opening files and previewing are free with no signup. Exporting needs a free account, which includes 2 exports; PRO exports as many as you like and adds saving to your account, share links and comments.
Why is it called a Beta?
It is our newest tool. Everything listed here works today; we are still polishing it, and what you tell us decides what comes next. It works best on a computer, where it has room for its panels.
Do these tools use credits or tokens?
No — never. Use and preview every tool with no account. A free account downloads any single result at full size, with no daily limit. PRO adds Download all, every banner size, more share links and saving to your account. A few things keep a small free allowance: QA checks (2 a day with no account, 5 with a free one) and hosted share links (5 a month, 1 a day, live 3 days, each updated up to 2 times). PRO is a flat $35/month ($280/year) for unlimited use of all 39+ tools: no credit packs, no top-ups, no per-use fees. The only pay-per-use extras are optional AI work done for you, paid from the Digi Bot credit wallet: Digi Bot jobs, ✨ Ask AI in the tools, and AI drafts in Character Animation (PRO; a new account’s first draft is free) — Ask AI and AI drafts are charged for what the AI actually uses, at most 1 credit a request. Many comparable tools bill per credit (remove.bg, CloudConvert, AdCreative.ai) — here one flat subscription covers everything. See tools pricing.

Open your next design — free.

Design and open PSDs with no signup — it all runs in your browser. A free account exports 2 designs as PNG, JPG, SVG or a layered PSD; PRO exports as many as you like and adds saving and comment links.