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Hi @christoph.kirner, welcome to the Affinity forums!

I am afraid these vector path objects seem to be ignored by Affinity in PSD, TIF or PNG. Also a path exported as AI doesn't appear in Affinity, it gets opened as empty layer of type "(Layer)".

For whatever reason you can transfer a Photoshop image with its separate path only when using JPG. Then Affinity opens the path as an editable clipping vector object – of course not transferring other initial psd layers this way.

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Paths in Photoshop can be converted to vector masks, which are read in Affinity Photo.

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If you are going to convert them to make them available in Photo then why not convert to vector shapes (shape path)? Vector masks must be nested to layers whereas vector shapes don't and are also imported by Affinity Photo. Not all paths stored in the Paths panel are necessarily used actively in the document as masks.

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@christoph.kirner
I've filled an (internal) improvement request for this (import paths stored in the Paths panel) sometime ago. It's up to the management/dev teams to decide if (possible)/when implement this. PSD is a poorly documented, proprietary format - somethings are quite difficult (if not impossible) to implement/translate to Affinity Photo however we do try to improve the import routines as much as we can.

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46 minutes ago, MEB said:

PSD is a poorly documented, proprietary format - somethings are quite difficult (if not impossible) to implement/translate to Affinity Photo however we do try to improve the import routines as much as we can.

Note that such a path of Photoshop's path panel checked as clipping path gets opened in Affinity correctly IF the image was saved as JPG. So it seems Affinity is technically  able to recognize such a path.    clipping paths samples 1-5.zip

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2 hours ago, thomaso said:

So it seems Affinity is technically  able to recognize such a path.   

But recognizing/handling them in a PSD or TIFF is a very different process.

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On 11/29/2021 at 6:03 PM, walt.farrell said:

But recognizing/handling them in a PSD or TIFF is a very different process.

It is. But it's alsoextremly handy to have them store in special panel, and differenciate them from other.

This give you an easy way to list, name and use later the one (paths, or alpha channel) for a specific job.

 

In an older time, we also used this to store area of logo or images converted to grey, and assign the different parts different colors in document using only 2 Pantone or 1 + black. Like the 1 bit image type, it's usefull and you just need to modify the swatches to get a different version of the document.

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