Yoko Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Good afternoon, I would like to share my Affinity Photo file with my commissioner, so that they can adjust the text layers. They work with Photoshop. I tried to export my document as a PSD-file, but the text layers become pixel layers, zo they are no longer adjustable. Hoe can I solve this? Thanks in advance, Kind regards, Yoko Heiligers ikir 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massive.art Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Try Exporting an EPS file. This file type is universal. Tiff formats also have layers as well as PDFs can house layer information. The PSD save might be flattening your work. Also, Photoshop is a Raster program. So no vector data will transfer. SalfingerAndrew 1 Quote i7 8700k, CoolerMax Air Cooled, 32g HyperX RAM 3200Hz, ASUS ROG Strix MTHRBRD, 2070 GPU 1.5 Tb Solid State Storage Huion KAMVAS Pro 16 Tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted May 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted May 17, 2020 Hi Yoko, Welcome to the forums The affinity apps don't currently support exporting text to .PSD I recommend trying an EPS or PDF file as Massive.art suggested. Thanks C SalfingerAndrew 1 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalfingerAndrew Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 I can conform, if you export the project as either a .EPS or .PDF that text will work in Photoshop (without being rastered) Quote Andrew Salfinger Made by Campfire - Graphic Designer W: www.madebycampfire.comE: hello@madebycampfire.comT: https://twitter.com/madebycampfire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.vlad Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I am surprised this hasn't been fixed yet. There is no room for working together with people using adobe if there is no common format that we can talk through. PDF is not a good enough alternative, as text gets split into text lines. spidermurph, Andy05 and PaoloT 3 Quote Mădălin Vlad Graphic Designer contact@mvlad.design https://mvlad.design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuth1n Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 This is the only thing holding me back now. I have been working to get my whole studio to switch, and a sister studio we work closely with. I have pretty much made the switch with a few coworkers, but we end up having to recreate artwork in the Adobe Suite to provide open files. Pixelmator Pro seems to be able to export with editable text (Did a test just to confirm this), so it's not impossible and I can't think that there's a licensing issue if they can do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hekselsior Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Please, please, please enable this feature. I really want to switch to Affinity Photo due to a much better performance and smoothness than Ps, but most design industry is still using Ps. Current exporting to Ps do not preserve text layers is a big disappointment. So much time wasted to recreate those texts in Ps before sending to clients. I am looking forward for next updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 49 minutes ago, Hekselsior said: Please, please, please enable this feature. This isn't just a switch which has to be enabled. PSD is a closed format and Adobe has surely no interest to give away the specifications except for license fees. So reverse engineering will take some time ... if possible. Out of curiousity: Are there any programmes out there (except Adobe ones), which are able to write back editable text to a PSD? PaulEC 1 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Joachim_L said: Out of curiousity: Are there any programmes out there (except Adobe ones), which are able to write back editable text to a PSD? PhotoPea, from what I've read, but I have no personal experience with it. Joachim_L 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: from what I've read Correct. Opens even APhoto files if they are not too complex. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanGG Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 This lack-of-a-feature is limiting professionals from implementing Affinity into collaborative industry workflows! 2022 and we're still waiting for this... If other software has this functionality, there's no reason Affinity shouldn't implement this. I'm working in an agency (co-workers use Adobe) so I can't use Affinity because I can't collaborate with my team. I feel so much more creative in Affinity, so it's a shame I can't use Serifs product in a professional setting. Current work-around (somewhat): Export as PSD (for all of my layers & masks), then I export again (just the text as PDF), open in Illustrator, export as PSD (from Illustrator), then open in Photoshop. It's such a pain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 10/26/2021 at 7:25 AM, Joachim_L said: This isn't just a switch which has to be enabled. PSD is a closed format and Adobe has surely no interest to give away the specifications except for license fees. So reverse engineering will take some time ... if possible. The situation is hardly likely to have changed in the last couple of months. 1 hour ago, DylanGG said: If other software has this functionality, there's no reason Affinity shouldn't implement this. Apparently there is just one online app that can do this, so there are probably very good reasons that no other apps can do it! (See comment above!) Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikir Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Any update on this, it is quite a big issue indeed. I understand it is proprietary PSD format obstacle but this will help a lot Affinity Photo to get more used in studios and offices. I can't use it for some specific tests now because text get rasterized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayustudio Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Yes, i hope affinity can support this. Even if its not pixel-perfect, as long there's option to make the text editable it would be ok for me. Especially for UI & web design, In my opinion Affinity does much better and faster when handling lot of layers and objects compared to Photoshop. But Doesn't matter how great and effective affinity is, the final deliverable file need to be in PSD format. So its a dealbreaker if all text need to be redone. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 On 6/29/2022 at 1:45 AM, ikir said: Any update on this, it is quite a big issue indeed. I understand it is proprietary PSD format obstacle but this will help a lot Affinity Photo to get more used in studios and offices. I can't use it for some specific tests now because text get rasterized. 18 hours ago, bayustudio said: Yes, i hope affinity can support this. Even if its not pixel-perfect, as long there's option to make the text editable it would be ok for me. Especially for UI & web design, In my opinion Affinity does much better and faster when handling lot of layers and objects compared to Photoshop. But Doesn't matter how great and effective affinity is, the final deliverable file need to be in PSD format. So its a dealbreaker if all text need to be redone. Thanks It's not likely to change. Proprietary, (one that owns or possess exclusive rights to something). Adobe owns that file format, and does what it can to maintain it's secrecy, much like Serif owns the rights to it's Affinity files. They choose not to make their coding public. Since Adobe will not release how other apps can use their format for exporting text as text, then Serif's apps can not be expected to. Sorry but hang around forums like this long enough and you see posts repeatedly asking when a proprietary file format of another, competitor's apps, be included. Granted Serif may be able to reverse-engineer this. However there just might be some serious legal, expensive consequences for doing so. If Adobe wanted Serif to do this, they would provide Serif with the code. Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikir Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 On 7/1/2022 at 11:11 AM, Ron P. said: It's not likely to change. Proprietary, (one that owns or possess exclusive rights to something). Adobe owns that file format, and does what it can to maintain it's secrecy, much like Serif owns the rights to it's Affinity files. They choose not to make their coding public. Since Adobe will not release how other apps can use their format for exporting text as text, then Serif's apps can not be expected to. Sorry but hang around forums like this long enough and you see posts repeatedly asking when a proprietary file format of another, competitor's apps, be included. Granted Serif may be able to reverse-engineer this. However there just might be some serious legal, expensive consequences for doing so. If Adobe wanted Serif to do this, they would provide Serif with the code. Hope is free, it is much needed feature even if it is Adobe fault we know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikir Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Affinity Photo v2 still can't export PSD text correctly... quite disappointing. Gigio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigio Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 .TIFF format could resolve this because is open i think, but the file exported from affinity is rasterized. In adobe i use only TIFF because os N reasons. Since TIFF is universal, i think the PSD is not allowed to Affinity but i think .TIFF could be possible dont? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Gigio said: .TIFF format could resolve this because is open i think, but the file exported from affinity is rasterized. In adobe i use only TIFF because os N reasons. Since TIFF is universal, i think the PSD is not allowed to Affinity but i think .TIFF could be possible dont? You can export TIFF files and save "Affinity Layers" in them. But that basically embeds a native Affinity file within the TIFF, and Photoshop would not understand it. It's similar to when Photoshop creates a TIFF file with layers; it basically contains a PSD file, which Affinity can mostly understand. PaoloT 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 On 10/26/2021 at 8:25 AM, Joachim_L said: This isn't just a switch which has to be enabled. PSD is a closed format and Adobe has surely no interest to give away the specifications except for license fees. So reverse engineering will take some time ... if possible. Yet, it is well documented for being a closed file format! https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
913 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Moderator MUCH Necessary ! Its 2023 Feb but still affinity can't export psd and EPS as text , even I read it's very easy to export EPS with editable text , I know team is working on features but quality is first so we can sell in market . So I'm again raising the issues that , EPS with editable text , hold layers PS with editable text EPS with editable text , hold layers PS with editable text It's 2023 , ikir and ai-2021 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikir Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Yes I agree we need an update on this even if it is hard to achieve it is quite important spidermurph 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JhonatanS Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 +1 I pretty understand about this frustration of not being able to export PSD in editable text I work with UI which requires a lot of text, and I deliver PSD files to my clients and team members, And it's a kind of real pain to not be able to co-work with the texts if they need to change something after me. I hope Affinity can give an opportunity to visit this thread since the market still have PSD as standard industry format. I assume that there have many users that still don't fully use Affinity apps because of the fear of incompatible projects workflow with others team members. ikir 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikir Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 Yes please focus on this issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
913 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Again and again. , Need EPS, PS with holding layers and font . It's very important to work on stock sites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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