christoph.kirner Posted November 29, 2021 Posted November 29, 2021 Hi, I have a TIF-file with paths in Photoshop. When I open this file in Affinity Photo, where can I find this path? Thank you. Quote
thomaso Posted November 29, 2021 Posted November 29, 2021 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. christoph.kirner 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
Staff MEB Posted November 29, 2021 Staff Posted November 29, 2021 Hi @christoph.kirner, Welcome to Affinity Forums We do not import/support paths stored in the Paths panel in Photoshop. christoph.kirner 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Joachim_L Posted November 29, 2021 Posted November 29, 2021 Paths in Photoshop can be converted to vector masks, which are read in Affinity Photo. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
Staff MEB Posted November 29, 2021 Staff Posted November 29, 2021 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. thomaso 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
christoph.kirner Posted November 29, 2021 Author Posted November 29, 2021 I talk about more than thousand images. Not possible to change them all manually 😁 Quote
Staff MEB Posted November 29, 2021 Staff Posted November 29, 2021 @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. christoph.kirner, thomaso and Wosven 3 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
thomaso Posted November 29, 2021 Posted November 29, 2021 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 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
Staff MEB Posted November 29, 2021 Staff Posted November 29, 2021 Hi @thomaso, I'm aware of that. We do support JPG's clipping paths since a long time ago. We can also include them in JPG's exports if you tick Convert clips to paths in the More section in the JPG export dialog. I was speaking generally regarding PSD support. thomaso and ashf 1 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
walt.farrell Posted November 29, 2021 Posted November 29, 2021 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. 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Wosven Posted December 3, 2021 Posted December 3, 2021 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. Quote
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