Hi
i’m new to linux
in windows i was able to load *.psd photos as a textures and maps and blender
displays them in preview window and render them normaly
but now in linux i can’t . blender give me black screen in preview window and not able to render them . i have to convert *.psd to jpg for ex so ican see my texture and render it
is this a limit to linux or it’s a bug ?
Most versions of Linux come with Gimp (free photoshop equivalent) already installed. Use Gimp to convert it to a jpg. You can start Gimp from the K Menu or by simply typing gimp on the command line.
Thanks ozo
i know gimp
what i meant why linux blender can’t understand psd file format like windows one ?
if you are on linux why would you use photoshop, i mean why not use gimp and forget about photoshop? btw its news to me that blender support psd on windows.
i am using gimp now
does gimp have an output format that is support layers and readable in blender ?
IIRC, on Windows - PSDs are read through the QuickTime libraries, so that is how you can use them on Windows. I run in Windows most of the time and honestly I forget about this functionality and save to an intermediate format anyway (as rendering with Yafray requires jpeg or tga textures anyway).
i guess that the best workflow is keep your xcf files which are the native gimp format as a backup with all layers and use the exported image as a texture like tga and png which are lossless formats, what do you think, its not so much trouble you just have to save as…