creating psd image

[Somerset]

Hi markw!

Thanx for your reply! No, I am on Windows 10 and Ubuntu Studio. I tested the exported *.psd in GIMP and even in Krita, and it worked correctly. It even worked to open the *.psd-file in ArtRage. But, of course, it's no longer a layer effect than.

I had a professional training as a media designer many years ago, and learned all those things like Photoshop, Quark XPress and a little later InDesign, Macromedia Freehand and than Illustrator and Corel Draw, and I love that stuff verry much. But I never liked doing commercials and want to try to go in a more independent artistic direction now. Since some years I use to work with Open Source Software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Krita and MyPaint on Windows and Linux. I also like that stuff verry much and the idea of Open Source, but there are some important things you can't do with it. For example, GIMP can't handle the CMYK-Colorspace. So I'm searching for affordable software that fits professional standards. And if possible an alternative to Adobe, because it's too expensive and I don't like the Creative Cloud. So I heard about Affinity that looks all verry promising. Think I'll check it out. Thanx again for your informations.

[Phila]

Hi, just a few details on my recent experiences about the stroke effect question : exporting and saving the stroke effects on a .psd : apparently it works more or less according to the system used (OK with Mac High Sierra), but in any case the stroke effects saved in psd will be lost if the .psd is imported in Artrage, so impossible to add or modify anything on the project (without loosing stroke effects). The second point is that the .psd created on my macbook also lost the stroke effects when opened on photoshop by a window 10 user, so based on my recent experience, the .psd solution is not efficient. Apparently a .tiff works better (stroke effects are kept) but layers are lost.
If anybody has a better solution, until this bug is fixed ? ... thanks

[Somerset]

Hi Phila!

It's not unusual that layers get lost if you export an image. Depending on the software, many programs don't export tiffs with layers. Photoshop does, but that may be because tiff is an invention of Adobe and Apple, as far as I know. GIMP, for example, also should do that in its new version, but a bug impeds it. Normally the most image editing programs have their own file formats for saving images with most of the features you work on it - like layers, selections. guides, masks and so on. The native file format of Photoshop is the *.psd, ArtRage has the *.ptg, GIMP the *.xcf... As long as you work on an image, you should alway use the native formats to save your work. Unfortunately it doesn't work satisfying in this case.

As I said, on windows 10 the stroke effect can be exported with every file format I tested (psd, png, tiff, jpeg). But it can't be saved with the *.ptg. Think (hope!) this will be fixed with the next Update or ArtRage 7.