wolfe8131 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I love Affinity for its one time purchase and many of its great features but it desperately needs to support photoshop/illustrator smart layers to compete. I use the smart layers to easily create mock-ups for various projects and without this feature my work would be significantly more difficult. Thank you for your time, J. Wolfe Freelance Graphic Designer and Brand Works myrrhine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kambis Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Affinity already has non destructive effect/adjustments. Can you please explain what you are missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert123 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Smart objects allow for external files to be embedded, and for elements to be cloned. They can also be used to organize work quite effectively. States of SOs can be controlled via properties, making it simple to re-use GUI elements, for example. A function for instancing layers which update in real-time while the source is edited in-place would be very welcome as well (something Photoshop is lacking, but Photoline and Krita do feature). And Affinity is not nearly as non-destructive as it could be: in Photo text is rasterized the moment anything but a perspective filter is applied as a distortion. RAW processing is destructive. Liquify is destructive. Then again, smart objects in Photoshop can be a real pain to use - a simple instancing method for layers would go a long way. Best: accommodate both: 1) external and embedded SOs/placeholder layers, and 2) instanced layers or symbols, so the user may choose between each approach depending on the situation (Photoline allows for this, for example). Perhaps Affinity Publisher/Layout will be the solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 See if this helps. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/16056-simple-letterhead-mockup/?p=72949 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateusz.zimnoch Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 The problem is that you can't use plenty of free PSD mockups available just because Affinity Designer does not support PS smart objects. Affinity Photo "Perspective" tool lets you just make a mockup on your own from the very beginning to the very end, not to edit an imported PSD file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 1, 2016 Staff Share Posted April 1, 2016 Hi mateusz.zimnoch, wolfe8131, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) PSD is a proprietary format owned by Adobe and very poorly documented. Both programs also use a different document model and implement some features in a different way so there's no direct mapping between their functionality. This means it's very complicated for us (or to another software publisher) to fully support all PSD features. Although we strive to provide the best PSD import possible, it's unlikely that will be able to provide 100% compatibility any time soon. Rather than relying on closed/proprietary PSD format specs, you should be able to create similarly complex mockups entirely in Affinity as we move forward and the program matures. Hopefully more files/templates will also become available as more users start taking advantage of it. evtonic3 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 1. How much is TIF compatible with PSD files? 2. Does Affinity covers TIF format 100%? If so, maybe it is better to convert PSD to TIF an then import to AP to retain as much as possible from Photoshop documents? Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert123 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Adobe abused the TIFF format by introducing "layered" tiffs, which are basically a PSD wrapped in a TIFF container. No luck there either. Blame Adobe. The best you can do is to convert unsupported features to rasterized layers, save as a PSD, and test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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