[Gimp-user] Editing .psd files

2005-11-25 Thread Demetrius Jones
I was wondering if there is a way to edit files that were created in Adobe Photoshop. I can open a .psd file in the Gimp but I cannot seem to be able to manipulate the image layers. Any help would be appreciated. I currently use the Gimp on the Windows XP platform.
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Re: [Gimp-user] Editing .psd files

2005-11-25 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:37:12AM -0800, Demetrius Jones wrote:
 I was wondering if there is a way to edit files that were created in Adobe 
 Photoshop.   I can open a .psd file in the Gimp but I cannot seem to be able 
 to manipulate the image layers.  Any help would be appreciated.  I currently 
 use the Gimp on the Windows XP platform.
 
   
psd editing is limited in gimp.  not as limited as xcf is in photoshop
though.

gimp will not edit text layers as text.

i think your problem is that the transparency has been toggled on all of
the layers.  to see if this is the case, Dialogs--Layers.  look to see
if the transparency toggle is set on.  if so, toggle it off.

carol

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Re: [Gimp-user] Editing .psd files

2005-11-25 Thread Eric P
Demetrius Jones wrote:
 I was wondering if there is a way to edit files that were created in
 Adobe Photoshop.   I can open a .psd file in the Gimp but I cannot seem
 to be able to manipulate the image layers.  

Hmm.. that should work (i.e., editing indiv. layers).  As Carol mentioned 
though, psd text layers aren't dynamically editable in the Gimp.  The Gimp will 
merely render the text layers as pixels.

I worked for a few years w/a Photoshop user (I think he had PS CS).  
The caveats I learned from sharing files between the Gimp and PS were (from 
memory): 
1. can't use masks in the Gimp and save to psd - they won't make it.  Never 
figured out if the Gimp properly read in mask from PS though.
2. text layers just get rendered as pixel info - still look the same, but 
cannot be dynamically altered.

Everything else I did transferred correctly when I saved to psd, so I could be 
productive and maintain my ethics (i.e., Open Source or death).

I did read that the 2.3.x series of the Gimp has improvements to the psd 
filter.  Not sure what they are though.

Eric P
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