GroguILove Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 I'm trying to transition to Photo from Photoshop, after years of working in Adobe. Things have been going more smoothly than I thought, until trying to work with text today. I created a PSD file in Photo and then tried to open it and edit in Photoshop (before sending this project on), and the text is not editable in Photoshop. What did I do wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 You did nothing wrong. It's just that the Affinity applications cannot create PSD files that have editable text. Serif have said they want to improve that someday, but we have no idea when that might happen. 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...
R C-R Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 34 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Serif have said they want to improve that someday, but we have no idea when that might happen. They have also said that (part of?) the problem with doing that is the lack of complete documentation from Adobe for the format of text in PSD files. Apparently it is very complicated ... & has become more so over the years as Adobe updates PS's text features. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroguILove Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 Oh, that's disappointing. I've been quite pleased with the options for photo editing and retouching, but the whole text thing in Affinity seems so lagging. It's really hampering my work, and I'm not sure that I'll be able to work around files that are not interchangeable -- because I need to be able to send them to others with layers in tact and editable. And I'm really, really wanting to get away from PS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 57 minutes ago, GroguILove said: because I need to be able to send them to others with layers in tact and editable. And I'm really, really wanting to get away from PS. Buy your friends copies of Affinity Photo while it's on sale so you can send them .afphoto files 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...
suntanglory Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 You can try to export the Affinity files as a PDF, then open it in Photopea and then save it from there as a PSD. If the files isn't too complicated the result is smooth and text is editable later in Photoshop. But it varies depending on the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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