Macintosh to PC compatibility with .psd fiels

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Dec 21, 2005
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My daughter uses a Mac at college and a PC at home. She has the same version of Photoshop on both: 2.0 You would think .psd files would transfer but they don’t.

What is the the technique, if any, to transfer these files?

Thanks.
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neon
Dec 22, 2005
jjvors wrote:
My daughter uses a Mac at college and a PC at home. She has the same version of Photoshop on both: 2.0 You would think .psd files would transfer but they don’t.

What is the the technique, if any, to transfer these files?
Thanks.
1) if she’s running version 2.0 she’s not running photoshop, she’s running photoshop elements…big difference. this should really be posted in a photoshop elements ng.
2) make sure the elements preferences are set correctly on both machines.
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LaManchaDQ
Dec 26, 2005
"jjvors" wrote in message
My daughter uses a Mac at college and a PC at home. She has the same version of Photoshop on both: 2.0 You would think .psd files would transfer but they don’t.

What is the the technique, if any, to transfer these files?
Thanks.

I’ve verified the problem that your daughter is having. There appears to be an incompatibility between the Mac PSE2 and PC PSE2 when saving in PSD format. My PC doesn’t even "see" the file if it was saved on the Mac.

Here is your solution.

On either platform, save the file in "Tiff" format. If there are layers that she wants to maintain make sure that the "as Layers" check box is selected. Then when she clicks save another dialog box will pop up and she needs to select the "Byte Order" for the platform that she is going to next edit the file on. The choices are either "Macintosh" or "IBM PC."

Therefore when she is at college she select "IBM PC" when she is ready to save the files for the trip home. When she is at home she will choose "Macintosh" when she is ready to transport that work back to college.

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