[merlyns]

I have a little question I can get mine photoshop files in too painter whit seperate layers but I�cant do it the other way around. tell me is it possible too do it the other way around?

-david

[ May 30, 2002: Message edited by: merlyns ]

[Jin]

Hi,

It would help to know what kinds of Layers you're trying to take into Photoshop. Obviously, you'll need to save the file as a PSD since Photoshop can't open Painter RIFF files. But you know that already, I suppose.

The answer is yes, and no.

It depends on which Painter version and Photoshop version you're using and what kinds of Layers are in the Painter image. Even if the appearance of the Layer does carry over to Photoshop, some Layers' attributes and capability of adjusting them dynamically as in Painter won't carry over to Photoshop.

Painter 7, for instance, has the following types of Layers, and testing them from Painter 7 to Photoshop 5.5:

Default Layers (Should carry over to Photoshop intact.)

Water Color Layers (Painter 7 specific, will carry over as normal Layers, but not be editable as Water Color Layers though their names will carry over as Water Color Layer 1, 2, 3, etc.)

Liquid Ink Layers (Painter 7 specific, will carry over as normal Layers, but not be editable as Liquid Ink Layers though their names will carry over as Liquid Ink Layer 1, 2, 3, etc.)

Dynamic Plugin Layers (Painter 6 and 7 specific, will carry over as normal Layers, but not be editable as Dynamic Plugin Layers though their names will carry over as, for instance, Kaleidoscope 1, Liquid Lens Floater 1, etc.)

Shapes (Painter specific, vector based, a group of Shapes will carry over as a set of normal Layers, but not be editable as Shapes are in Painter.)

Dynamic Text Layers (Painter 7 specific, will carry over as normal Layers but not be editable as Dynamic Text Layers and their names will be gone)

Impasto Layer (Appearance of Depth and Lighting will carry over but can't be adjusted dynamically in Photoshop as it can in Painter, nor can it be toggled off and on as it can in Painter. The Impasto Layer is invisible and doesn't appear in the Painter Layers list or in the Photoshop Layers list.)

All of the above is only some of what you might run into, so if you can explain more about your image, maybe it'll be possible to tell you how to do what you want, or find a workaround.