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Conserving layer groups in mockup export

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Conserving layer groups in mockup export Daniel 13 Dec 09:58
  Conserving layer groups in mockup export Ofnuts 13 Dec 10:46
Daniel
2016-12-13 09:58:39 UTC (almost 8 years ago)

Conserving layer groups in mockup export

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?

Thanks in advance, Daniel

Ofnuts
2016-12-13 10:46:06 UTC (almost 8 years ago)

Conserving layer groups in mockup export

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.