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

[Daniel <daniel2013 leschoupinous net>]

Le 14/12/2016 à 12:35, Daniel a écrit :
> 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
Hey all,

I wanted to let everyone know the solution I found to my problem and
hopefully help others searching online for the same problem.

I stumbled upon the open-source drawing/painting program Krita
(krita.org) which is capable of reading XCF files and exporting PSD
files with all layer groups and layers intact. I do all my work in Gimp
with all my layers and layer groups, then I open the file in Krita and
export in PSD format. I'm very happy with the result.

I'm wondering if the Gimp developers would be interested in adopting the
portion of the Krita code (under the GPL) which keeps the layers and
layer groups when doing a PSD export.

Hope this helps others!

-Daniel