Thanks, Adobe Programmers!
It’s 5:06am. Tonight I spent 2 hours working with some business card layouts for a class next week. I was saving to PDF to show some friends for critique and had just gotten it down to a reasonable web-friendly size. Getting ready to call it a night, I go into Save As and change the filesize *back* to psd and re-save. Photoshop saves it. I check to make sure everything’s okay, it’s how I want it, all the layers are there, etc. Everything’s cool so I close it.Then I get this really weird feeling that something is wrong. I decided to open it again, to see if it’s right, and guess what, all my layers are missing! Now, I understand I saved my PDF without layers in order to reduce file size, but when I saved it back as a psd, there are no options to save it any other way, so how could this have happened? I’ve no idea, but the file as it was when I closed Photoshop had my layers and now they are gone, gone, gone.The only consolation I have is that I spent so much time on the positioning and not really individual pixel art, that I should be able to re-construct the whole thing in an hour. But, still, why did Photoshop wish to screw me over when I didn’t even have the option of destroying my layers while using the native format? Why!? Someone call me and tell me what I did to deserve it!