From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Limitations of Smart Objects
From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Limitations of Smart Objects
- When you add vector content to a Photoshop file, one trick for maintaining that is to export to Photoshop PDF. But the nature of that vector content can affect whether that works or not. So here we have a shape layer, I'm going to zoom in on it. And of course it looks pixelated, but if I export this to Photoshop PDF it will be rendered nice and sharp. I'll double click the hand tool so that we can see the whole image. Let's see how this behaves as a pasted path and as you probably suspect it's going to look like pixels in Photoshop but there's still some hope if we export to Photoshop PDF that vector content may shine through. But what about smart objects? Now smart objects are kind of an interesting concept in Photoshop. When you place embedded or place linked content is going to be sort of stored off to the side in this Photoshop file and that facilitates transformations. You can rotate, scale, distort every…
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