Layers not importing

Hi there, I'm just getting started with this, hope you can help!
I'm sure it's something obvious, but I've laid out my site in photoshop, everything is on its own layer, I've saved it as a psd, but when I import into catalyst only the backgroung layer is coming through. Any ideas why this is?
Many thanks,
Neil

Hi Adam, thanks for the reply, as it happened, it was because some text in Ps wasn't rasterized, I'd just assumed Fc could handle it,
thanks,
Neil

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