stylus1274 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I've read a few different things on this and it appears there is no way to export to a PSD and keep the text from being flattened? I need to be able to edit the text once in a PSD file. Does anyone know if this is possible and/or of a workaround? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 20 minutes ago, stylus1274 said: I've read a few different things on this and it appears there is no way to export to a PSD and keep the text from being flattened? I need to be able to edit the text once in a PSD file. Does anyone know if this is possible and/or of a workaround? To the best of my knowledge Text coming in from PSD may be editable but Text exported to a PSD will not be editable in PhotoShop. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. It is not possible. When you Export a PSD file from Affinity any text layers will be rasterized. There is no workaround within the Affinity suite of applications. The issue is that PSD is not a formal standard, and thus has no formal description of the file format. Adobe has not documented some parts of the format, and has documented other parts incompletely, and can make changes to the format (with or, more likely without) documenting them, whenever they want. Serif has either not had time to reverse-engineer that undocumented (or poorly documented) part of the file format, or has chosen not to, and therefore the Affinity applications can't keep the text editable. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylus1274 Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 21 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. It is not possible. When you Export a PSD file from Affinity any text layers will be rasterized. There is no workaround within the Affinity suite of applications. The issue is that PSD is not a formal standard, and thus has no formal description of the file format. Adobe has not documented some parts of the format, and has documented other parts incompletely, and can make changes to the format (with or, more likely without) documenting them, whenever they want. Serif has either not had time to reverse-engineer that undocumented (or poorly documented) part of the file format, or has chosen not to, and therefore the Affinity applications can't keep the text editable. Thank you for the detailed response Walt. I may have not purchased Affinity had I known this ahead of time. None of my developer own the program so this puts a damper on things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylus1274 Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 Ha - I think I just found a workaround. Not perfect but it is working thus far. I loaded a PDF of my Affinity design to this site: https://www.photopea.com/ I then exported that file as a PSD. Boom - text was not rasterized and was able to be edited in Photoshop walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 1 hour ago, stylus1274 said: None of my developer own the program so this puts a damper on things. If you are collaborating closely with a group of people, you will probably have better results if you all use the same programs. Or, at least, if you exchange files that are in a formally standardized format (such as PDF) rather than a proprietary format (such as PSD). (I will now wait for a comment that PDF may be standardized, but it's not really intended as an interchange format, either. And that's probably true. Which leaves you with: use the same software your colleagues are using.) There are other functions in PSD that Affinity doesn't support. Perhaps PhotoPea will suffice for them, too. Or maybe they're functions you won't need. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylus1274 Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 15 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: If you are collaborating closely with a group of people, you will probably have better results if you all use the same programs. Or, at least, if you exchange files that are in a formally standardized format (such as PDF) rather than a proprietary format (such as PSD). There are other functions in PSD that Affinity doesn't support. Perhaps PhotoPea will suffice for them, too. Or maybe they're functions you won't need. This sounds good in theory but you can't force people to buy other programs and PDF doesn't allow for developers to "see" text styles such as font type, colors, leading and ect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 15 minutes ago, stylus1274 said: This sounds good in theory but you can't force people to buy other programs and PDF doesn't allow for developers to "see" text styles such as font type, colors, leading and ect. Right. Which is why (in theory) you should be renting Photoshop like your colleagues are, and not trying to use something different. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylus1274 Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Right. Which is why (in theory) you should be renting Photoshop like your colleagues are, and not trying to use something different. Ha, yes, I guess so lol. Tired of giving Adobe my money though so I switched to Affinity. I like it and I'll just have to make it work at the moment I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flurfunk Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 This whole PSD text thing is annoying and awful. All of us switched to Affinity with the promise to export to PSD. No collaboration with others is possible like this, and that sucks a lot. And it sucks even more not getting anything back from Affinity. So, me and my company are forced stop working with it. A real pity because it's awesome in general. Thanks a lot for no support here Affinity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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