blck Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Hello, Affinity Designer seems like a great photoshop replacement, although I am wondering if there is support for smart objects created in photoshop. I use a lot of phone mock ups to preview app designs, which depend on smart objects. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted October 2, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 2, 2014 If you're talking about smart objects in a PSD file, that is something I still have to add to PSD import. It will get done soon, as I am working on PSD import and export currently. spielerinternet 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spielerinternet Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 First ... i've opened a 200MB Photoshop-file from a web design project and it needed just seconds (PS needs minutes!). Yes, the missing smart objects makes it impossible for me to continue. Good to hear that you are working on it. ... and please don't let yourself be bought by Adobe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike.marcacci Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Hey there! Firstly: awesome tool. Downloaded it in a pinch when I formatted my system disk as case-sensitive, which totally breaks Adobe's nasty old codebase. I'm now trying to completely remove Adobe from my computer, and this feature's definitely a blocker: I have been quite heavy-handed with vector smart objects over the years, which allow really powerful interoperability between Illustrator and Photoshop. Without this, almost all of my vector work will be inaccessible. I'm not sure how smart objects are stored internally, but if their contents could be expanded and grouped on import this would be a massive win for my use case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matroskin Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 Are there any updates on the smart objects support? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I´ve also send an PSD with a SmartObject in it that opens not properly and it´s not fixed in the current beta...I think it´s not a so easy thing.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 13, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 13, 2015 Hi matroskin, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) No. not yet, This is something that may take a little. The PSD format is proprietary and poorly documented, so it's not a trivial thing to do. Just give developers some more time. anon1 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted October 16, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 16, 2015 We still need to work out what we are going to do for smart objects in Affinity. As we don't have a strategy, we cannot yet import them from PSD. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arta Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Any updates regarding this issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert123 Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Smart Object support is a tough one to solve, since they may contain both Photoshop generated content and Illustrator generated content. The obscure and lacking documentation regarding the PSD format, as well as the ever-moving target (PSD) make it extra difficult to deal with SOs. The only application outside Photoshop that I know of that opens PSD files with Smart Objects is the latest beta of Photoline. It opens Smart Objects with layered PSD content, and it will open Smart Objects with pdf-based Illustrator content. Even more impressive: the actual content of both can be opened in a new windows (just like Photoshop), and even the Illustrator content can directly be edited in Photoline. Or sent to an external application such as InkScape. In Photoline SOs are opened as placeholder layers. It took those guys also a year before Smart Object support was added. It is possible, but not the easiest thing to pull off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Pimentel Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Smart Layers into Affinity is the only feature feature I need to not ever use photoshop or illustrator anymore…. Helmar 1 Quote Willy PimentelM1 Imac 16gb Mac os Ventura Latest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 On 11/2/2015 at 8:11 PM, Herbert123 said: The only application outside Photoshop that I know of that opens PSD files with Smart Objects is the latest beta of Photoline. Now Photopea does it too. even an online image editor does... https://www.photopea.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcote Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 7 years later… this feature is still nowhere to be found… so we still have to rely on Photoshop to open older files. 🤦♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 18 minutes ago, pcote said: 7 years later… this feature is still nowhere to be found… so we still have to rely on Photoshop to open older files. 🤦♂️ Affinity Photo can open PSD files with Smart Objects, though there are still some Photoshop object functions that are not supported (and there's no list of what works and what doesn't, as far as I know). You have to enable that Preference; it's not a default setting. 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...
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