Import Layered Photshop file into Illustrator
Maybe I'm missing something, but I just assumed that if I dragged and dropped a photoshop file into Illustrator that it would bring in all of it's layers as a minimum, and layer effects intact as a bonus. But what I get is a flattened image, no layers, no effects. Here is where it gets crazy. I open the same Illustrator file in Affinity Designer. Then I drag and drop the same Photoshop file into the open Illustrator file and the whole thing comes in, layers and all, and the fx are are still live as well as layer multiply, pass through folders etc. Am I to understand that Affinity Designer which I paid $49.00 for can handle a Photoshop file better than Adobe Illustrator? I've been an Adobe user for like 30 years! I was certain that this was possible but I hope at this point I'm just missing something. But if I am, it is still a failure that whatever I'm missing is not as simple as it is with Affinity Designer. Well, there's 1 extra step in Affinity Designer. It drags in like a linked file. Double click and it expands the whole thing into a separate document. At first, I didn't understand what had happened other than I was looking at all of the layers and stuff. Then I copied all of it and pasted it into the illustrator file and that was it. I had everything I needed.
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