Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Conserving layer groups in mockup export

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion mpc com br>]

Can you check if ther eis a Phtoshop opensource plugin to read "ora" files ?

These do support layer-groups, and would bread correctly. Even if the
Photoshop plug-in is dephased/faulty, it would be an easier fix for
this situation.



On 14 December 2016 at 12:35, Daniel <daniel2013 leschoupinous net> wrote:
> Le 13/12/2016 à 11:46, Ofnuts a écrit :
> > On 13/12/16 10:58, Daniel wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > I'm working on creating multi-layer website mockups using layer groups
> > > to organize the elements of each section (header, menu, footer, etc).
> > > The client would like the mockups in PSD format, but the PSD export
> > > function flattens the layer groups, so during the conversion of the PSD
> > > to HTML/CSS the developer won't be able to extract/isolate individual
> > > elements (images/icons/etc) in the layer groups if they want to. I
> > > already looked into exporting a multi-layer TIFF from Gimp, but that is
> > > not currently supported.
> > >
> > > I've got access to a copy of Photoshop, but I barely know how to use it
> > > except for recreating the layer groups, so using it for doing the
> > > mockups is not an option.
> > >
> > > My idea for a workaround is to not use layer groups in Gimp and just
> > > have all the elements in layers without any hierarchy, then export to
> > > PSD, then in Photoshop open the file and create layer groups and
> > > reorganize the elements as I normally would in Gimp. This solution takes
> > > more time and is less organized during the creation of the mockups in
> > > Gimp since I'll have no layer groups, but it is not the end of the
> > > world, and maybe the only workable solution.
> > >
> > > I'd love to know how others work through this type of issue. Anyone have
> > > any suggestions?
> >
> > If you are just using groups to keep related things together and not
> > for specific compositing order,
> > a possible solution is to use a script in Gimp to un-group everything
> > before exporting.
> Thanks for your reply. If possible I'd like the file I export from Gimp
> to open in Photoshop with all the layer groups intact. No one else has
> done this or needed to do this? This would be easy if the TIFF export
> supported layer groups because I could just open the TIFF in PS
> directly. This seems like the optimal solution for me.
>
> If it is confirmed that there is no way to do that today, I'll fall back
> to the manual recreation. In that case I totally agree that doing an
> un-group just before exporting to PSD will allow me to work with the
> layer groups in Gimp, which I prefer. I see there is a plugin which
> ungroups layer groups which I could use.
>
> Daniel
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