Installation instructions $ tar xvf gdk-pixbuf-psd_20081217.tar.gz $ cd gdk-pixbuf-psd_20081217 $ make $ sudo cp libpixbufloader-psd.so /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/ Make sure the above path is correct on your system. Now you need to setup loader with gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders. On Ubuntu (Intrepid) it goes like this: $ gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-psd.so | sudo tee /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loader-files.d/gdk-pixbuf-psd.loaders On Gentoo: $ su # gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-psd.so >> /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders