Fundamental Issue with Exports in Expression Design

elementalgrace — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:23:12 GMT

When I saw the export to PSD function in expression design, I was over the moon. It meant that as I don't have a copy of Illustrator, I could finally switch my layered images between programs and use the best features of both.

So, I started out in Expression design (as the pen tool is better in here than in Photoshop) and having finished and saved my files, off I toddled to export the file as a PSD so that I could work with some of the effects a bit better. I, rather excitedly, opened the file up in Photoshop to be confronted with a great big bitmap image and not a layer in sight.

Oh well, it must have been my fault, I probably didn't tick the "preserve layers" option or something. But I had(!). So off I went again to try the export again, making sure that all the settings were correct. To absolutely no avail. It still opened up in Photoshop as flat as a pancake.

Why oh why put the feature in if it doesn't actually work? Now I'm really annoyed (after working in ED for about 3 weeks solid and really enjoying it) Bah!

Now that I have that rant off my chest, if anyone can explain why the feature's there but isn't working or has any suggestions for getting round it, I'd love to hear them.

Cheers

(Come on Microsoft, I've been really pro MS and championing the cause for the Expression suite - please please please fix this!)

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