Photoshop and Elements incompatible?

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Aug 10, 2003
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I had been using Photshop Elements 1.0 to edit a PSD file with lots of layers each containing individual pieces of text. As long as I stay in Elements, I can use the text tool to click on the text to edit the text object.

When I load and save the file in Photoshop 5.5, the version it saved no longer works in Elements. All the text has been rendered and using the text tool in Elements to click on a text layer just inserts a new text object.

This is a big problem for me because I’d sent out my Elements file to a contractor to get some edits done, and I can no longer use the PSD file that he sent back to me because all the text is gone (and there were lots of non-trivial text elements in the file).

Is this a known bug? Are there any other incompatibilities I should know about? Is there any way to get Photoshop to save in such a way as it won’t destroy text objects that had been created by Elements?

Jason

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Aug 10, 2003
Jason Freund wrote:

I had been using Photshop Elements 1.0 to edit a PSD file with lots of layers each containing individual pieces of text. As long as I stay in Elements, I can use the text tool to click on the text to edit the text object.

When I load and save the file in Photoshop 5.5, the version it saved no longer works in Elements. All the text has been rendered and using the text tool in Elements to click on a text layer just inserts a new text object.

This is a big problem for me because I’d sent out my Elements file to a contractor to get some edits done, and I can no longer use the PSD file that he sent back to me because all the text is gone (and there were lots of non-trivial text elements in the file).

Is this a known bug? Are there any other incompatibilities I should know about? Is there any way to get Photoshop to save in such a way as it won’t destroy text objects that had been created by Elements?

If I remember correctly, Photoshop 5.5 didn’t have text layers yet. That would explain it. Open the files in Photoshop 6 or 7 and you should be OK.


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