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Exporting PSD file

Exporting PSD file - Affinity Designer Tutorial

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Exporting PSD file

- [Instructor] In this video, we can take some time talking about exporting PSDs and importing PSDs. Now, I know everybody's been wondering if we could actually import and export files from Photoshop, and you can do it. And the files do come in perfectly fine, to an extent. The only issue that I find between exporting and importing is fonts. So when you export from Affinity Designer, the fonts actually don't communicate over. They actually rasterize or they vectorize the fonts. So you'll get your actual layers in there, and your effects, to some degree. If you're using any type of special effects that doesn't communicate over, what happens is, Affinity will rasterize those effects and put them on a layer. So you won't have the ability to use adjustment layers in Photoshop to edit those. But you'll still be able to get the file in there. And it'll still be visually okay, it's just that you'll lose the ability to edit it. So let me first show you how to export from Affinity. If you go…

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