Working with photoshop and fireworks

I have a small issue, I hate cutting up designs for web from photoshop to the point that id rather re-create the layout in fireworks.

I have to use an existing design from PShop but if I open it in fireworks it flattens, I have also tried exporting a .png from photoshop and still the same. I want to be able to preserve the layers from the Phoshop design in Fireworks.

This never used to happen before my hard drive gave up and I have had to get a new one so im sure it's a setting somewhere in the programmes I have re-installed.

I thought i'd try and ask before i start to re-draw the thing!

I am using Photoshop CS2 and Fireworks 8

I've solved it now... Fireworks preferences > in the folders tab I have linked up to the Photoshop Plug-Ins folder and now the .psd opens up in layers.

Fireworks has always had support for PSD's. The ability to use PS plugins is just a bonus. A nice one too. FW can also export to layered PSD's.

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Thanks for that, Although the Photoshop problem is solved I still have the same issue if I copy objects from an illustrator file, i.e. If i copy a vector object from Illustrator and paste into Fireworks it flattens and discards the paths.

You probably have to export the paths from AI and import them into FW for it to work, but I never tried.

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