What is a PS smart object? Photoshop Intelligent Object Functional Understanding Basics Tutorial

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In my opinion, a Smart Object is one of the most useful feature in Photoshop. It allow us to save a lot of the time in designing website and graphic user interfaces where there are plenty of repetitive e Lements. If you are have a good understanding on the how a Smart Object behaves, it can also serve as a template for Photoshop.

In my opinion, smart objects are one of the most useful items in Photoshop's new features. It allows us to save a lot of time in web design and image processing, such as when we need to have a lot of repetitive effects. If you have a good idea of how a smart object works, it can even apply some picture effects as a template.

What is a Smart Object?

Smart Objects are layers that contain image data from raster or vector images, such as Photoshop or Illustrator files. Smart Objects Preserve an image's source content with the all it original characteristics, enabling you to perform Nondestruc tive editing to the layer (quoted from Adobe).

What is a smart object? A Smart object is a layer that contains image data in a grid or vector image, such as Photoshop or Illustrator files. The smart object retains the source content of the image and all its original attributes, allowing you to perform non-destructive editing on the layer. (excerpt from Adobe's Readme document)

The image below demonstrates a nondestructive transformation done to a raster graphic. In normal conditions, a raster or bitmap image would turn blur after resizing for few times with the transformation tool (s Een on left). By converting the raster image to a Smart Object, any transformations that come after would remain sharp like the original. All of the pixels information are preserved upon the conversion (seen on right).

The image below shows the difference between a lossless treatment and a common treatment.

In normal mode (Fig. II), raster images or bitmaps become blurred when doing deformation processing (this result is more pronounced as the number of deformations increases).

If you turn a layer into a smart object in advance, the image will always be the same as the original effect, no matter how the distortion is processed (right). All pixel information will be protected when it is deformed.

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By preserving the original pixels, any scale smaller than the original size would remain great but it would still be blur wh En made bigger due to the lack of fill information. So it's better to convert a high resolution raster image right from the start.

By protecting the original pixel, any reduced processing will perform very well, but the amplification process will still become blurred, after all, it is necessary to add some information that is not otherwise. (Of course, smart objects will behave much higher than normal layer processing), so we'd better start by choosing a very high pixel source file to handle, to avoid zooming in.

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How to Create a Smart Object?

There are several methods to create a smart object:by using the File > Open as Smart Object command; Copying and pasting data from Illustrator; or converting one or more Photoshop layers to Smart Objects (shown below).

How do I set up a smart object?

There are several ways to achieve this:

1: File-Open as a smart object (this method makes the file a smart layer when entering Photoshop);

2: Copy the contents of the file from the Illstrator.

3: Select one or more layers in Photoshop and choose convert them to smart Objects in the shortcut menu (Figure IV).

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Ways to use a Smart Object

Of course there are many creative ways to use Smart Objects. The few I am sharing below are only the more common methods.

Once you converted a layer or group of layers to a Smart Object, any duplicates of it'll act as instances. This means so any changes made to one Smart Object layer would reflect to all of the other duplicates. The example below is demonstrating a button with another 3 instances. This are useful for design drafts with constant changes to and feel. By planting a button template across your document, it would save time by just amending one button and rest would follow .

The "important point" to "Look out" is "that", double-clicking on a Smart Object layer would launch a new. PSB window with your template elements in it. After performing the amendments, make sure SAVE the. PSB document in order for the original. PSD to register the changes. Since there is a separate. PSB document for every Smart Object, and can also save it as a single file this is reusable for your next design!

The purpose of a smart object

Of course, smart objects have a variety of creative uses. Here are just some of the most mundane things I've listed.

Once you convert one or a set of layers into a smart object, copy several copies of it, and then process any of them, the others will change the same. The following figure is an example of this method. We often need to adjust the appearance of a series of parts (such as a Web button) to make the effect of the whole image better, so this method is useful in making the design draft. All we need to do is change one of the smart objects and we can control all the replicas in the global change.

One important point to note here is that when you double-click a Smart object layer, a new document window opens with a. PSB, and the Smart object layer contains all the content. When you are done with the desired effect. Please remember to keep this. psb file (Ctrl+s) as shown in Figure five, so that the corresponding objects and replicas in the. PSD document will change. Of course, each smart object. PSB file can also be stored separately for reuse in future designs.

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