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[Closed] Anyway of getting Photoshop CS6 files with layers working with Elements?

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 Pook
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I've got a CS6 project saved as psd.  It has a number of layers, each with vivid light setting and hue/saturation filters linked to colour the individual layers separately- basically to highlight certain bits at certain times on demand.

I've sent it to a colleague to work with who has PS Elements, but he loses all the layers with different light settings/hue filters.

Is there any way around it?


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 8:43 am
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Is there any way around it?

...get your colleague to upgrade to the 21st century! 🙂


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 8:55 am
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Get him to get a free trial version of CS6 or CC or the LR/PS photographers bundle.


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 8:58 am
 jimw
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…get your colleague to upgrade to the 21st century!

If the colleague doesn’t need CS6 or CC for his work, £50 a month for CC, £10 a month for the LR/PS bundle ( with a low storage requirement) does seem a bit steep. As above, have a free trial if a one off.


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 9:15 am
 Pook
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We're in a locked down, this is what you get company. I'm lucky to have swung cs6 so need a solution within the parameters if one exists


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 9:50 am
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You supply all the different permutations as flat files and if he needs anything else you do it remotely?
You supply the different layers as individual files and he combines them as needed?
If he needs to do it regularly then £10 a month is nothing. If it is infrequent you do it and he does something that you'd normally do?


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 10:10 am
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Alternatively check whether Affinity Photo deals with PS layers - I think it does and it's £50 or so but with a free trial...


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 11:16 am
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Unfortunately Adobe are the grand masters at making things inaccessible without a CC subscription.


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 11:22 am
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Almost like they've cottoned on to piracy being an issue!

Back in the day when Quark was king our local repro house used to buy a legal copy and then give pirated discs to every printer in the area. This was basically a sales tool as everyone would then use them for film output. I did't know anyone who had a legit copy of Quark!


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 11:35 am
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We always ran legal software as we had to depend on instant support as any issues could cost us a lot.
I'm not saying that I could swear that all our fonts were kosher however.


 
Posted : 11/02/2021 12:14 pm

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