The Photoshop Productivity Series: The Productive Workflow

Benefits of Smart Objects

Using Smart Objects offers many benefits over using regular layers. The primary benefit is the greatly enhanced control and flexibility they offer. Before Smart Objects, even a simple thing like resizing a graphic was always a potential problem. Here is quick example:

1. Here’s a basic logo created in Photoshop. If you keep it at the original size, it looks great. (Figure 4.1).

Figure 4.1 Scaling a logo such as this can create problems.

2. If you scale down the size, the quality looks acceptable (Figure 4.2).

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