Smart Object basics

- [Instructor] Smart Objects offer a non destructive…and flexible way to work with layer in Photoshop…especially when you're resizing…or transforming or warping layers.…Let's say for instance that I wanna make this image…smaller within the canvas but I'm not exactly…sure what size it's ultimately going to end up being.…Well in order to use free transform…I need to transform the background into a layer…so I'll click the lock icon, then under the edit menu,…I'll choose transform and scale.…I'll hold down the option key, or the alt key on Windows…in order to transform from the center…and make the image smaller.…

Then I'll apply the transformation…by tapping on the check mark.…But now if I change my mind and return to edit…transform, and then scale, again I'll…hold down the option key to scale from the center,…and I scale up this layer.…When I apply that transformation,…we can see that we've lost a lot of quality to the image.…And that's because when I transformed the image down…Photoshop had to throw away a lot of information.…