Jeff Macharyas is the Director of Marketing at Corning Community College in New York. He is a writer, graphic designer and communications director who has worked in publishing, higher education and project management for many years. He has been the art director for Quick Printing, The American Spectator, the USO's OnPatrol, Today's Campus, and other publications as well as a telephone pole design engineer contractor. Jeff is certified in Google Analytics and Adobe Visual Design and holds Amateur Radio license: K2JPM. He is also a certified fencing instructor.
Jeff earned his AS from Indian River Community College (Ft. Pierce, Florida), his BS in Communications from Florida State University, a miniMBA in Social Media Marketing from Rutgers University and a Masters in Cybersecurity and Computer Forensics from Utica College.
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This sort of worked. I just tested it to make sure. I created a simple GIMP image with some shapes and text layers. I then File >> Export As, Select File Type .psd. This saved the file as gimptest.psd. I then opened that file with Photoshop CC. The file opened and I was able to move layers around, but the text I entered in GIMP was not editable. I opened the .psd I exported with a hex editor to see if it was truly a .psd, and it was (38 42 50 53) and checked a Photoshop .psd to compare and the signatures matched. I read on some forums that editable text export is in development. So, to answer your question: you are correct, if a printer demands .psd files you're stuck for the moment. However, in my experience as a graphic designer, I have never sent a printer a .psd, it's either PDF or collected InDesign files. Of course, different designers, clients and vendors have requirements I may have not encountered. I'll keep investigating and if anyone has any solutions please reply back. Thanks, this was a great question.—jm
It wasn't until January 2014 when I started my Master's in Cybersecurity and Computer Forensics at Utica College. We had to install Ubuntu to run some stuff in addition to the Windows forensics. I really liked how easy it was. I was running a cheap Asus Windows7 laptop for class and got so frustrated with it I replaced it with Ubuntu. Now my cheap laptop is Linux-only and I'm using Scribus and GIMP, etc. in addition to some of the forensics apps. I also just found out that I share a birthday with Linux, which is really cool. Of course, I don't turn 25 today, but I did once! So, in addition to Elvis Costello, Sean Connery, Billy Ray Cyrus I can add Linux to group birthday cake. Now, how cool is that!