Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CSH file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CSH to another file type
To convert your CSH file to another format, you need Adobe Photoshop or other Vector Image software.
Convert a file to CSH
To convert other file formats to the "Graphics Preset File" file type, you need software like Adobe Photoshop or a similar tool.
About CSH files
The .csh extension is primarily associated with Adobe Photoshop Custom Shapes, a proprietary binary format used to store vector graphic collections. These files contain reusable geometry - like icons, symbols, or flourish elements - that designers access via the Adobe Photoshop Preset Manager. While efficient for Photoshop users, .csh files are a significant issue for interoperability. They are not natively supported by web browsers, cannot be opened directly in Adobe Illustrator, and are useless to anyone without a Creative Cloud subscription. Users often need to convert these locked-away vectors into standard formats. For web design and UI work, the best target is SVG, which retains scalability and code compatibility. For print workflows or archiving, converting to PDF or EPS ensures the shapes remain crisp at any size. If you just need to preview the contents without installing the shapes, converting to a raster format like PNG is the pragmatic solution.
A secondary but common use for this extension is as a C Shell Script. These are plain text executable files used on Unix/Linux systems (similar to BAT on Windows). If you encounter one of these on a non-Unix machine, simply converting it to TXT allows you to inspect the code safely using any text editor.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your CSH file.
If you want to convert CSH file to BASH, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC or APE, you can use Adobe Photoshop or similar software from the "Photoshop Custom Shape Library" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to CSH, try Adobe Photoshop or another comparable tool in the "Photoshop Custom Shape Library" category.
The CSH Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CSH converter.