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Photoshop Smart Objects

Photoshop Smart Objects

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Photoshop Smart Objects

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- [Instructor] So as we've discussed, images that are made up of pixels are resolution dependent. When you transform pixels by scaling, rotating, or distorting, you are changing or re-sampling the number of pixels in the image. And if you do this too much, you're going to degrade the quality of the image. Now, I don't want to over emphasize this. You can't make that omelet without breaking those eggs. But such destructive changes should be kept to a minimum. A commonly used term for a considered workflow is non-destructive editing. And this term is most applicable in Photoshop, but it's also an approach that you can take to your editing in Illustrator. Basically, you want to retain the image in as close a form as possible to its original state. And any edits that you make to the image should be both reversible and transparent, transparent in the sense that anyone who might need to work on the file can intuit, by the way…

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