Smart Photoshop

• Working wiht Smart Objects means,

first of all, flexibility.

• If you never used them before, should

try today!

• If you are using them already, maybe

the following slides can be useful.
 MULTIPLE

• Smart objects let you combine

multiple layers and help you
organize your document.
 SIZE

• With Smart objects is not all

smooth and silk. If use them, must
consider that fill size will increase.
 SAFE

• Data are perfectly preserved

in Smart Object. So you can
resize and manipulate without
affecting the original image.
 VECTOR

• Smart Objects are excellent if

you are importing vector graphics
from Illustrator to Photoshop.
 SMARTER

• Smart Objects do not support linked

Layer Masks. You can be Smarter than
a Smart Object simply putting it in a
folder and link the Layer Mask to the
folder instead of the Smart Object.
 SUB-DOC

• To edit a Smart Object, just double click the thumbnail.

A document will be open. Edit it and remember to save
before to close the. The document wont’ be saved as file
on your hard disk, but will update your Smart Object.
 PROXY

• A Smart Object can work as

a Proxy placeholder to work
faster with low res images.
 STACK

• Smart Objects can be grouped

in a stack. Stack modes operate
on the images included in the
stack. Remember Median, the
fastest “tourists remover”!
 NOISE

• Median is also amazing to

remove unwanted random
textures, as Image Noise.
 SMARTS

• Smart Objects and Layer

converted for Smart Filters
are exactly the same thing.
 ORDER

• Use Smart Filters to apply

flexible filters. The stack of
filters can be rearranged.
 BLEND

• You can also change blending

mode to the filter.
 EXTRAS
Some useful links about smart filters:

- Image noise definition on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_noise

- Stack modes from Adobe online Help

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/

- Other stack modes

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/StackAMatic_SM.mov

- A good tutorial on Median Stack mode

http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2008/issue27-photoshop.html
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