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 <daniel2...@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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