A set of 35 individual grid shapes that you can place together to act as guides when creating your layouts. That’s when we came up with Grid Builder. So together (Stefan Kunz and myself) we thought about how we could produce something that could make this process as easy as possible, but still giving you guys the tools to create completely unique pieces of art. You have the quote or words you want to use, you know the style, but you just get stuck with how to lay it out, so it doesn’t look like letters just thrown onto a page. Something that I struggle with and I know you guys do to, is laying out a great composition within your lettering work. Open the newly exported file in Photoshop with layers available.Creating stunning lettering layouts has never been easier! In Affinity, click File > Export, and make sure you select the PSD tab before hitting Export.Ĥ. Open Affinity Designer and paste the Sketch file by selecting File > New from Clipboard.ģ. Open the Sketch design file, select the artboard and Copy it.Ģ. Here is a tutorial on how you can achieve the same result.ġ. We were able to bring a Sketch file into Affinity and export it to PSD with layer separation in-tact.

The SolutionĮventually however, we found a nice software that we managed to use as an intermediary layer between Sketch and Photoshop, called Affinity Designer.

We tried exporting the Sketch file to EPS, SVG and every other format possible, but found major problems with each approach.

However, we eventually ran into a snag when our animator (who uses Windows) needed the UI in PSD format so that he could take it into Adobe Premier and After Effects to work on it.Īfter scouring the Internet for quite some time, looking for Sketch plugins, tutorials or anything of the sort that might have the ability to convert a Sketch file into a PSD file, we came up empty. We recently experimented with Sketch as our main UI design tool and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Affinity sketch