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My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when opened Paint Tool Sai

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 08:55:43 GMT

Okay, so I have been having an issue with Sketchbook Pro. I am using a Windows 10 Lenovo laptop.

I generally gravitate towards two different programs. I use a program called Paint Tool Sai Ver. 2 and I've recently started using Sketchbook Pro. I usually do my quick sketching on Sai while I use Sketchbook for refining and coloring for a more interesting texture.

Here's my problem:
After sending the sketch I've made on Paint Tool Sai to SketchBook Pro as a .PSD file and work on. I save it as a .PSD file on Sketchbook, and as I reopen the .PSD file on Paint Tool Sai, it's as if whatever I worked on in the layers on are completely empty like there's nothing there even if I know those layers should have something in them. And it's not like Paint Tool Sai can't read it, it's done it before for some of the really quick doodles I've tested on SketchBook. I know it's not Paint Tool Sai since this is only a problem I ever had with when using Sketchbook as Photoshop drawn files read fine on it. Has anyone else experienced this?

Re: My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when on Paint Tool Sai

patrick.muenster — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 08:55:29 GMT

Can you upload a psd with your drawings?

Re: My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when on Paint Tool Sai

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 08:57:41 GMT

I actually attached images to the question but I'll send them here too since I think I did it a bit wrong.

It's really strange since it doesn't do this for all of the files I've worked with before, it seems like it does so with certain files but I don't see the difference as my work method is the same throughout

Re: My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when on Paint Tool Sai

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:02:10 GMT

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12lJ5JqVDHGpOPwr58gsMyo22GGYoaasg/view?usp=sharing

Re: My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when on Paint Tool Sai

patrick.muenster — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:05:52 GMT

Hi, I just want to have a look at the exported psd file itself, look at the structure and reopen it in different programs to see if your issue is a problem with Sketckbook or anything else. Sometimes there is an issue with layergroups and blend modes by imporing/exporting from and to other programms.

The layer group shouldn't matter in your case. Have you used a blend mode on that layer?

Re: My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when on Paint Tool Sai

patrick.muenster — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:30:59 GMT

I'm sorry, I can't find any failure in your file. It's opening properly in Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Sketchbook Desktop and App, Krita and UX Designer.
Maybe you should report a bug to Sai cause it seem like their importer does something wrong or in another way.

And I've seen that Paint Tool Sai Version 2 is a technical preview version right now.

So I would recommend to try the import again on the last stable release of Sai ( Version 1.xx (1.25?)) and report the bug.

Re: My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when on Paint Tool Sai

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:20:27 GMT

All right. I'll see what I can do. I don't have Photoshop on this laptop so I wasn't able to check, so thanks for checking and responding to my query.

Re: My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when on Paint Tool Sai

patrick.muenster — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:33:56 GMT

You're welcome! Let me know how this works out and maybe thank me with a like

Re: My layers made on Sketchbook is empty when on Paint Tool Sai

patrick.muenster — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 09:20:47 GMT

Is it working with another version now?