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cuffsbyrector
cuffsbyrector
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January 7, 2020
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How can I save changes I made to puppet in CH to PSD?

  • January 7, 2020
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I've made several changes to my puppet while in CH such as making left and right profiles. But now when I want to edit in PS, it's not updated. Is there a way to do that so my changes are also updated in PS.

 
 
 
 
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Correct answer David Arbor

Just to confirm, you made the left and right profiles inside of Character Animator by duplicating and repositioning layers, and you want that to reflect back in the PSD?

 

If so, unfortunately, you'll need to do the work again because the link is one way from Photoshop > Character Animator, not the other way around. It's much slower to make puppet edits inside of CH and you should always be updating art inside of PS or AI. The duplicates you made in CH (again, if that's what you ended up doing) are just references of the art from PS. You can see this in action by doing something like changing the color of a layer in PS and watching it update on all of your profiles back in CH.

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David ArborCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 7, 2020

Just to confirm, you made the left and right profiles inside of Character Animator by duplicating and repositioning layers, and you want that to reflect back in the PSD?

 

If so, unfortunately, you'll need to do the work again because the link is one way from Photoshop > Character Animator, not the other way around. It's much slower to make puppet edits inside of CH and you should always be updating art inside of PS or AI. The duplicates you made in CH (again, if that's what you ended up doing) are just references of the art from PS. You can see this in action by doing something like changing the color of a layer in PS and watching it update on all of your profiles back in CH.

    cuffsbyrector
    cuffsbyrectorAuthor
    Participant
    January 7, 2020

    Yep, that is what I was referring to. I was somewhat relieved that when I update items in PS, it doesn't override the duplicates I've made in CH. 

     
    alank99101739
    alank99101739
    Legend
    January 7, 2020

    The file CH is using is specified in the first property for the puppet. If you single click on the puppet file it will show the path name to the file over in the properties panel. I am guessing you are editing a different psd file to the original. Otherwise i don't understand how you can be creating new profiles. CH just edits psd files on disk, but sometimes it makes a copy (e.g. when you import a puppet file)

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