Photoshop CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P16:Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She’s the author of Photoshop Album For Dummies, coauthor of Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated, Photoshop 7 For Dummies, and Illustrator 10 For Dummies. She has contributed as coauthor, technical editor, or layout designer for numerous books. Barb also teaches computer graphics at Brooks Institute; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Ventura College | 628 Book Ư Working aritfi Lagers Chapter 5 Working with Smart Objects In This Chapter Creating Smart Objects Converting Smart Objects Editing Smart Objects hotoshop has decided to borrow a great feature from its Webby cousin Adobe GoLive. With the advent of Smart Objects Photoshop has significantly cut your editing time while letting you transform your objects without fear of quality loss. With Smart Objects you create the art once and then if you want to show the art again you use what are called instances. These instances can be linked to your original art. This makes editing a breeze. If this feature sounds familiar it s probably because besides GoLive Adobe Illustrator uses symbols a similar type of object. Read on to find out more about this feature the ultimate in digital recycling. Introducing Smart Objects A Smart Object is actually what Adobe refers to as a container in which a bitmap raster or vector image s source data is embedded. So in essence a Smart Object is composed of two files one inside the other. Adobe uses the analogy of a new file the child which is embedded into the original file the parent. This source data of the child is contained in the Smart Object parent but keeps all its native characteristics and is fully editable. Here are a few advantages of Smart Objects Transform without degradation. In Book III Chapter 3 I warn you about the negative side of transformations. When transforming traditional layers your image goes through the process of resampling 430 Creating Smart Objects which then causes degradation of quality. With Smart Objects you can transform your artwork without losing any image quality. Photoshop does this by actually using your original source data to render the transformations. Preserve non-native file data. Photoshop transforms any non-native image information such as Illustrator vector artwork for example into a format it can recognize without altering the native data. Edit the Smart Object and all instances are .
