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After Effects Does not Recognize Photoshop Layers
Hello,
I am using AE CS3 8.0.2. I do not know much about photoshop but I have been given a PSD from a client that was made with Photoshop CS4. I have made sure that maximize compatibility has been turned on for the file.
However when I import the file it does not include the layers (which I desperately need) it just imports it as a flattened image/single layer. Even when I try to import it as footage, no dialog box even appears asking me which layers I want to import etc…
Can someone please help?
Thanks!
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4 Replies
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Faraz,
Im guessing that your PSD is CMYK rather than RBG. If you convert it to RGB in photoshop first it should work.
-Andy
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OK. I figured out the problem but now there is a new one. I had to convert the PSD from CMYK to RGB however the was a problem converting the PSD. A dialog box pops up and says “Changing modes will discard some adjustment layers, change mode anyway?” If I hit ok then the image is changed from the original. Some colors are off etc…
However, the change is not too drastic and I could work with the PSD but when I then import it into AE, some layers are distorted, others are missing attributes etc…
Any ideas on what’s going on here?
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I have until Thursday of next week to complete this. It is not essential that i get this to work the way I want I just felt like I could create some interesting effects if I had all the layers intact. I think what i will do now is manually extract the layers I want to use and create separate files for them. I know this will obviously take a lot longer then being able to import the whole PSD but it wil have to work for now. I will try posting this in the photo shop forum as well and see if anyone can help there.
In the meantime if anyone else has any suggestions/ideas, that would be great.
Thanks!
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Can’t you basically do that in PS? Merge/flatten the layers and effects that are being problematic, then convert to RGB. Then import that PSD.
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