Xd is currently the single best way to import Figma files accurately into After Effects. By exporting svg files from Figma and importing them into Xd I can now get super accurate comps for prototyping / preview animation. The problem is, whenever there are embedded assets in an artboard (say a png background) the files are linked to some cryptic system folder (example attached. on mac it's /var/folders/s1/someSketchyHash/...) and thusly can be easily seperated from the project and lost during handoff / transfer. The current fix for this is to do a project collect in After Effects every time you export something with external dependencies but this is both tedious at volume and something I know the beautiful pulsing brains y'all work with know how to fix.

I would like to have the option to save the assets in a folder relative to the After Effects project file they're being exported too.

"Place and Link" is my favourite thing in PS, it gives me the option to import one file multiple times, choosing different artboards (Ai, ID, pdf,...). Every time I change something in the respective app, my PS file gets updated - easy peasy. I would like the exact same feature for XD files in PS.

I strongly suggest that all the additional export to PNG or whatever should be reduced when moving in between CC apps. It creates a lot of unnecessary file waste and is just inconsistent for most younger CC apps.

To be clear: NO EXPORT out of XD should be needed to IMPORT in PS. Right now XD files are a complete stranger to good old PS.

Description of the feature

I would love to share an artboard or prototype-video to Behance, either as a "Story" or as a whole project (and/or add to an existing if you're really cool!)

Why this is valuable to you

As a freelancer I rely on Behance for my daily income. Having a fastlane to publish stuff to Behance would save a lot of time and help share throughout the day when working on sharable stuff.

If possible, an image or video that helps us understand your feature request

I added a screenshot of the separation-part that Instagram does for Stories and Shots but I think what would be more helpful is the way Photoshop does sharing. Integrating Behance their in a way would be amazing.

Is there a way you could create the ability to use a mobile device to display actionable palettes?

I use a two display setup on my desktop. When I travel I have to use my laptop which means I can't have very many palettes available without using up my project workspace on screen.

What if I could connect my mobile device via usb or bluetooth and have actionable palettes displayed there. I could have several palettes onscreen on a tablet, or on a phone, then I could just swipe left or right to the palette I wanted. I could then select the layer, color swatch, or whatever, and have that action occur on the app on my laptop. That way I can maximize my work-space on the laptop screen.

Is this something you'd be able to do?

XD is kind of a dead end in the development pipeline. This is because there isn't a good way to get usable, lossless assets out of XD and into Illustrator or Photoshop with correct appearances. What that means is I need to hold the implementer's hand so my comp doesn't get ravaged in its conversion and execution. I also have to do the same work twice, by hand-converting appearances from XD to PS or ILLU.

There are sufficient values that get lost in the conversion that it's neigh unusable. Here are a few I've observed:

• Alpha (stored in the color settings) turns black, but gradients handle alpha on gradient markers fine.


• Text with a transparency setting less than 100% drops into Illustrator at 100% opacity, but shapes handle this fine.


• Even though both Illustrator and XD support blending modes, all objects are copied over at normal blend mode.


• Drop shadows are completely omitted.


• Copying into PS is bonkers... it seems to arbitrarily change colors and flattens the image down into a useless and inaccurate bitmap. My best guess is that it mixes the pasetboard color or white into the cashed element's alpha IF the alpha is less than 100%. Like I would kind of get mixing it against black, but this? It's useless.

I know you guys are a big organization, but cant you like, collaborate with the Illustrator and Photoshop teams to write a parser for a 1:1 copy/paste - AND TEST IT TO VERRIFY IT WORKS CORRECTLY? Or why not implement a smart object system that allows user to place XD-copied items into PS as smart objects that opens in XD, just like a vector smart object does in Illustrator?

Anyway, the attached image illustrates how bad pulling assets from XD to Photoshop is.

Thanks for the otherwise awesome free software, which in spite of my complaining is really quite good.