Unable to export to PSD

[ewelina]

Affinity Designer in iPad. I can not export the file in a dozen or so layers in psd, the export is generated and not this process does not come to an end. Could someone help me?

[rickmoff]

same issue for me. Please help

 

Tried both photo and designer

Edited May 12, 2022 by rickmoff

[MEB]

Hi @ewelina, @rickmoff,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Do you mind sharing the source afdesign or afphoto file to be checked please?
I can provide an upload link if you wish to keep the files private - just let me know. Thank you.
 

[rickmoff]

yes I can share. Please send link

[MEB]

Here's the upload link @rickmoff. Thanks.

[rickmoff]

uploaded.... and thanks for the quick reply. Of coarse this is a rush for a sponsorship banner and they can't read the Affinity files

 

[rickmoff]

Here's screenshots

[MEB]

@rickmoff,
Do you really need to export this at 300dpi? This is a huge file/banner (8x6ft), typically seen from some distance, exporting at 150dpi should be more than enough. You're probably running out of system resources when exporting at 300dpi. Reduce the dpi to 200 and check if it exports fine. If so it's not an issue with the file itself.

[rickmoff]

I thought I needed 300 DPI for printing. 

 

I'm not seeing how to choose DPOI

[Paul Mudditt]

13 hours ago, rickmoff said:

I thought I needed 300 DPI for printing. 

 

I'm not seeing how to choose DPOI

Use Resize document, leave the dimensions at 8ft x 6ft if they are the dimensions intented and drop the DPI as suggested. At the moment your document is 28'800 x 21'600 which is at least ten times the size your need. I would drop DPI to 72DPI or even lower.

[Alfred]

15 hours ago, rickmoff said:

I thought I needed 300 DPI for printing.

You only need 300 DPI for items that will be viewed from short distances and/or with a magnifying glass. Books are an obvious example, but also large items such as maps. Even at only 100 DPI, an 8′ × 6′ banner (i.e. 10′ diagonal) becomes ‘retina’ at less than 3′, meaning that at normal viewing distances you won’t be able to distinguish individual pixels. If you drop the output resolution to 30 DPI, the minimum viewing distance is still less than 10′.

[MEB]

Hi @rickmoff,
Sorry the delay getting back to you. To change document's DPI go to menu Document > Resize Document, untick the Resample checkbox and change the DPI to 150 (or lower) and press the Resize button.