AIR app with PSD files

I am new to AIR and thinking about making a [simplistic]
image editing app. Ideally, I would love to have the app allow
users to import a Photoshop PSD file, and be able to manipulate the
layers of the file in simple ways (either move them or turn the
visibility on/off, that's all).
But, before trying something futile, I thought I'd ask -
would that even be possible? I know Flash can load and manipulate
JPGs and the like, but a PSD is doubtful. Just asking in case
there's something I don't know though.
Thanks!

Thanks Joe. I figured I'd have to write my own code, but I'm
not against trying so long as it's actually feasible. I did some
Googling and found a couple of "PSD parsing" classes for other
languages that I may be able to conceptually translate to
Actionscript... we'll see.
Thanks again.

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