14. Smart Objects

Smart Objects let you nondestructively apply filters, transformations, and other edits to your images by preserving the original image data in a separate, linked file. So, for example, you can scale a Smart Object down, and later you can scale it back up without losing any image quality. When you want to make edits to the content of a Smart Object, it will open in a separate window in Photoshop, or in the original application (like Illustrator). ...

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