Masks not being read in Photoshop

[augstl]

Hi,

 

So, the recent discount (and the other things regarding the other company 🙃) encouraged me to buy and actually start using Afinity Photo in production. I've been liking it very much so far, but just now I've noticed something: the masks I'm creating in Afinity Photo cannot be read in Photoshop. 

 

I'm working on TIF files (mostly) and the idea is to have a workflow in which I can work with both softwares as I need to until I can fully migrate from one to the other. The photoshop sees it as a single layer merged/flattened image. I do not lose the masking I've done, but I can't change it.

 

Am I doing something wrong or there is an option I should be checking somewhere... something like that? Or the file is not going to be fully readable by other software? Or is there a workaround so that I can keep the information and non-destructvely work with both softwares?

 

How does that work for now in Afinity Photo?

 

Regards,

Augusto.

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Augusto.

Although the TIFF standard does allow for layered files, those layers are proprietary. Affinity apps can open PSD files, so they also have access to Adobe’s TIFF layers, but only Affinity apps have access to Serif’s TIFF layers.

[augstl]

That's bad.

 

Really, really bad.

 

By trying to add a new software to my workflow, I'm looking for freedom, not being stuck to a different software as I am with the current one. I'd expect some functionality to be exclusive to one software or another, but I would also expect simple things like a mask to be readable in a file format that supports it.

[dominik]

55 minutes ago, augstl said:

By trying to add a new software to my workflow, I'm looking for freedom, not being stuck to a different software as I am with the current one. I'd expect some functionality to be exclusive to one software or another, but I would also expect simple things like a mask to be readable in a file format that supports it.

Hello @augstl,

I do understand your desire to move away from Adobe. I did so some years ago. From my experience Affinity is not made to work interoperationally with the Creative Suite. There are ways to transfer and to import files. But currently the concept is not to work on files that are being moved back and forth. And most likely will never be.

During my transition and learning period I did the following. Projects that could be handled entirely in Affinity were created and finished there. Projects that needed somehow Adobe's functionality I kept entirely in e.g. Photoshop. That way I could rely on my known and learned workflow and at the same time learn and migrate to Affinity. It did not take too long at all.

I still keep an old CS6 Version around to open old project files. But I hardly ever have to use it anymore.

d.