KyleCrotts Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Hi Everyone, My Explanation: I'm new to Affinity programs and I'm in the process of preparing all of my PSD files for Affinity Designer & Photo. I've been using Adobe Photoshop for a long time during that time I have created a lot "Smart Objects" within my files. Yesterday, in adobe photoshop, I spent two hours preparing my main device templates and eight hours preparing one single file to be imported and used in Affinity Designer. I went into each smart object individually and pulled the full resolution images, shapes, etc.. and placed them on a separate artboard in the main file. Below is an example of a simple template that has multiple layers of smart objects. This example has several instances of 3 layers of smart objects. Even though that doesn't add up to too many smart objects in this file I have lots of files that are similar, or even more complex, and the method that I have been using is incredibly time-consuming. My question: Has anyone found a better way of preparing smart objects, or assets within smart objects, for Affinity Designer & Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted July 23, 2019 Staff Share Posted July 23, 2019 7 hours ago, KyleCrotts said: Has anyone found a better way of preparing smart objects, or assets within smart objects, for Affinity Designer & Photo? Hi KyleCrotts and Welcome to the Forums, As we rasterize smart objects on opening, i'm not aware of a better method than you are using. We need them not to be smart objects and i can't think of another way to get that result. Hopefully if anyone else knows of a trick they will post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleCrotts Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 0 Advanced issues found ▲ On 7/23/2019 at 3:55 AM, stokerg said: Hi KyleCrotts and Welcome to the Forums, Hello stokerg, Thank you for your comments. I was actually able to finish prepping my files a bit quicker than I originally expected, which was nice. Though I am hoping for perhaps a better way to import files with smart objects in the future. Perhaps Affinity will one day be able to look into a smart object and extract objects such as shapes and text at vector and images at max resolution, instead of rasterizing the smart object at face value. I'm not a coding expert but somehow that seems unlikely, regardless of how convenient it may be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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