AE text to Photoshop?

[Brian Little]

My solution was to copy each text layer in AE to the clipboard and then paste it into the exported photoshop file. While not a great solution it did work and kept the formatting close to the original.

[Kevin Camp]

There is not a way that I know of, but when I’ve needed to do something like that, I’ve done the Save Frame as PSD layers and then copy/pasted the text from AE to PS (select the text, then copy/paste).

It’s a little tedious, particularly with area/paragraph text, but the copy/paste method maintains the text’s font, size and most other formatting, so that helps.

[Brian Little]

Thanks Kevin. Looks like we were approaching it the same way. Thanks for the validation. ?

[Eric Santiago]

My day job issue is reverse.

I work with a few graphic designers who solely live in InDesign.

Wish I could take that artwork and font into AE.

[Kevin Camp]

I have made Illustrator files into Photoshop files and then taken the PSD to AE and maintained editable text…

In AI you can chose File>Export>Export As… Then choose PSD.

In the next window you can chose an option for Write Layers and then Preserve Text Editability.

Now you can bring that PSD into AE and make the text editable.

Maybe InDesign has a similar ‘export’ function, or maybe you can get the InDesign file into Illustrator and then export a PSD…

[Sean Tracey]

I remember painfully in the years gone by when our in house goto was InDesign. which for e ons was the industry goto. Im very surprised it’s still being used these many years later.

I’m just so glad that we decided to change when Adobe CS2 came out. Back then thing’s when the post production lot didn’t come with the basic CS2. I remember the joy when during a friendship with a pal working for Adobe as some wizkid UX Guru was able to let me buy a copy of Adobe CS2 Creative,CS2 Post Production Suite, Adobe PDF Pro and what was still the separated package of Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash and whatever came with it. i cannot recall and all for the lowly price of £50.00.

sad it changed to the monthly costing platform.