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Smart objects: Embedded

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Smart objects: Embedded

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- [Narrator] Smart Objects are essential for website designs created in photoshop. They're especially helpful since it allows you to resize and adjust an object as much as desired without losing quality. Some of the benefits of using Smart Objects are you can perform nondestructive transformations. You can scale, rotate, skew, distort, perspective transform, or warp layer without losing original image data or quality. You also have the ability to access the vector data if applicable. You can apply filters in a nondestructive way and if you edit one Smart Object, you automatically update all of its linked instances. It's possible to apply a layer mask that's either linked or unlinked to a Smart Object layer. You can also try various designs with low resolution place holder images and then replace them later on with a final version's. This is a great feature when you use it in conjunction with a library object's. There are two ways in which you can create Smart Objects. Right now, we'll…

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