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Here is some useful information for those who are not familiar with photoshop in depth.
SMART OBJECT
is a container-like layer into which you can plop all kinds of stuff, like Raw files (Working with Raw
Files), vectors (drawings) from programs like Adobe Illustrator (Chapter 13), whole PSD files, and
even other layers. Smart Objects are smart because Photoshop remembers the original content
and what program created it, which lets you do the following:
TRANSFORM OR RESIZE
it without losing quality. Instead of resizing the instance (a copy) of the content that you inserted
into your document, Photoshop remembers info about the original, resizes that, and then places
that information back into your image (without altering the original file). It doesn't matter whether
that original lives elsewhere on your hard drive or right there in your Photoshop document (on
another layer, say). In the blink of an eye, Photoshop updates your document with the newly
resized content without making it look blocky (so long as you don't exceed the files original
dimensions unless its a vector, of course). You can also use the full range of transform tools (The
Transformers) on Smart Objects.
Compress a bunch of layers into a single layer nondestructively. Unlike merging layers (Rasterizing
Layers), converting several layers into a single Smart Object preserves the original layers. This
ability is super helpful if you want to edit several layers as if they were one, which is great for
masking several layers at once, applying filters to a composite image, applying layer styles (Layer
Styles), or using tools that work on only one layer at a time.