Open Adobe Photoshop jpg WITH guides showing up?

[Alex Danishevsky]

Hello Affinity team,

I have a jpg from a customer that was drawn in Adobe Photoshop that has guides with it. However, when I open it in Affinty Publisher or Photo, the guides do not show up - is there any method to correct this? Thank you

[Komatös]

Hi @Alex Danishevsky

There is no way. Guides are not saved in a jpg file. 

[Alex Danishevsky]

I just verified by downloading a trial version that an Adobe Photoshop-saved file does save guide info and can be re-opened by a different user and see the guides but it looks like no other software like Affinity or Gimp can pull that data from the jpg.

[iconoclast]

Usually each app has it's own file format to save things like guides, selections, layers and so on with it, so that you are able to keep that stuff while you are working on that document. In case of Photoshop this file format is *.psd, in case of GIMP the *.xcf, in case of Affinity Photo the *.afphoto. As far as I know even Photoshop doesn't allow to save guides with file formats like *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, *.gif... All these formats are end-formats - not to save your work while you are working on it. That's, by the way, the reason why there are different functions for "Save" (*afphoto...) and "Export" (*jpg, *png, *tif...).

[Alex Danishevsky]

I was getting various sources saying "yes jpg has metadata and preserves guides" "no guides are not saved within a jpg" but I just downloaded Adobe Photoshop, opened the jpg I was asking about, and confirmed: yes, a jpg file from a customer made in Adobe Photoshop that I received does have the exact guides they drew before sending it to me. So jpg does have metadata like guides but only within the same software like iconoclast said. Thank you for all the feedback but doesnt look like I can grab the customer's files and work with them in Affinity.

[David in Яuislip]

Photoshop does save guides in a jpeg but the only software I have that will display them is Photoshop - the example uses CS2
To get the guides into Affinity save from Photoshop as psd, psb or tiff

[iconoclast]

4 minutes ago, Alex Danishevsky said:

I was getting various sources saying "yes jpg has metadata and preserves guides" "no guides are not saved within a jpg" but I just downloaded Adobe Photoshop, opened the jpg I was asking about, and confirmed: yes, a jpg file from a customer made in Adobe Photoshop that I received does have the exact guides they drew before sending it to me. So jpg does have metadata like guides but only within the same software like iconoclast said. Thank you for all the feedback but doesnt look like I can grab the customer's files and work with them in Affinity.

Interesting. Must be a relative new option. But does it make sense? JPEG is a file format that uses lossy data-compression. That means, that each time you save a document as a JPEG, it will loose at least a bit of it's quality. Because of that, I would not recommend to save (export) images as JPEGs to work on them further.

[Alex Danishevsky]

I'll discuss it further with the customer, these are fairy large files, about 80" wide at 200-300 dpi, then gets printed with melamine/HPL materials.

[lepr]

26 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

Interesting. Must be a relative new option.

I'm not sure about that being new. Since decades ago, Photoshop has been able to save clipping paths in JPEGs, so I imagine guides have been a possibility for as long.

[David in Яuislip]

Photopea can get the guides from a Photoshop jpeg which can be saved as a psd which Affinity can interpret

[Alex Danishevsky]

Wow, that Photopea trick worked, thank you so much! I can at least check for hidden guides now and decide whether to copy them over or not. This helps a lot, thank you!