Frames to layers?

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Frames to layers?

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Hello!

Often when using TVPaint for illustration, I need to import a PSD file with several layers. It always imports as a series of frames rather than stacked layers as in the original PSD.
Does anyone know a way to distribute several frames within a layer to their own individual layers? Currently I'm doing it manually.
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This is strange, when I import PSD I get a project with 1 frame and as many layers as in the PSD.

For the task to distribute frames to layers, I assigned a key to "split layer" (if you select 1 frame it nicely splits before and after that), then use the tool in the animator's panel to stack them all in frame 1.
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So, strange... I just dragged a PSD into TVPaint, and it just worked, layers imported as they existed in the original Photoshop document.
Perhaps it was the way Procreate on the Ipad created the PSD. I can't seem to get it to exhibit the same behavior.
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It was an ordinary PSD, not one with animation in it?
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Correct.
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The PSD format is Adobe proprietary, they may have introduced changes. When I export a PSD from GIMP, it is imported into TVPaint without issues like ST said.
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I had the same problem a few months ago. In my case the PSD was created by After Effects (and than altered with Photoshop)
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