Can Photoshop and Painter work together on a same psd ?

[Whipyo]

No....as far as I know you can't do that with PS and painter.

Photoshop and imageready have been written to go hand in hand together and although they are two seperate applications, they do share some of the same plug-ins, libraries, brushes, settings etc...They even reside in the same application folder.

In Photoshop you have probably noticed that if you select 'edit in imageready', photoshop automatically closes the image and opens it in Imageready and vice versa. This is just how Adobe has written the two applications to work together. The file is not actually open in both apps at the same time.

Some clever person might have some way of scripting this but it would not be as elegant or as simple as the single button click to swap files between PS and imageready.

[zerae]

Photoshop detects it and updates the image but not Painter afaik.

[Dom83]

Ok, so we would need a plugin, like the one made for DogWaffle and ArtWeaver, in order for this to work. But since Photoshop and Painter are not open source, nobody is able to make such a plugin...
That is a shame...:sad:

[levi]

I must be missing something here, because you can save out of Painter to PSD, and retain layers, etc. It's a daily occurrence for me. And you can go both ways, if you retain PSD as the file format.

[Rist]

You could always keep both applications running at once, but you need a beefy machine while working.

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