Save as PSD

[Ed2]

Hi,

I don't seem to be able to save my work as a psd, is it because I am using the trial version or can it not be done even in the purchased version.

Win10

Many thanks

Edited August 20, 2022 by Ed2
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[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

The Trial versions have no limitations. File > Export should allow you to create a PSD file. Save will not.

Note that exporting a PSD will not be perfect. For example, any text objects will become rasterized and not editable as text. Saving in a native format (.afphoto, .afdesign, .afpub) will give better results generally.

[Ed2]

 

Thank you for your quick response. Do you know if the .afphoto format can be opened and used by other applications like PS

[NathanC]

Hi @Ed2 welcome to the forums,

25 minutes ago, Ed2 said:

Do you know if the .afphoto format can be opened and used by other applications like PS

.Afphoto is a native file format to the affinity apps and as such cannot be opened by other apps outside of the affinity range such as Photoshop.

[Ed2]

Very helpful. Thanks to both of you

[Old Bruce]

4 hours ago, Ed2 said:

I don't seem to be able to save my work as a psd, is it because I am using the trial version or can it not be done even in the purchased version.

 

Semantics note:

We cannot Save As... a file to a PSD format. We can Export... to a PSD format. This is for both the Trial and Purchased version.

[Ed2]

Thank you, so would it be better to export as a tiff file and preserve the layers?

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, Ed2 said:

Thank you, so would it be better to export as a tiff file and preserve the layers?

TIFF files do not have layers, natively. They can be extended by an application such as one of the Affinity apps, or Photoshop, to contain additional data. And the application that creates the file can call them layers, but they're just a blob of data as far as the file format is concerned.

For the Affinity apps, if you export and save Affinity Layers you basically get a TIFF with an embedded .afphoto file and only Affinity apps will understand that added rats. Everyone else just sees the single raster layer

 

[Old Bruce]

56 minutes ago, Ed2 said:

Thank you, so would it be better to export as a tiff file and preserve the layers?

I have to say no. As Walt has pointed out there are disadvantages to this. And if you export a TIFF instead of exporting a PSD you won't be saving any time. PSD files are quite useful, frequently awful because they include Adobe only features but then with a TIFF with Layers you'll most likely have an Affinity only TIFF file.

I use TIFF for single layer finished products. Affinity Photo for work I will continue to work on and PSD for .... well nothing other than the Final Cut Pro option.