Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

OPEN CAMERA RAW FILES AS SMART OBJECTS
automatically
Although you cannot directly edit pixels on a
Smart Object layer, as you can when using
the Brush tool on a regular layer, working on
files as Smart Objects has many benefits. You
can make edits to Smart Objects without
permanently changing the original file’s data,
so you can scale, rotate, or transform the
layer and still go back to the original if you do
not like the changes. When you apply filters to
Smart Objects, the filters become Smart
Filters, and Smart Filters can be re-edited
even after they are applied to the Smart
Object layer. You can duplicate a Smart Object
layer multiple times, and when you edit any
one of the duplicates or the original, all the
other copies are updated at the same time.
You can create Smart Objects by opening a
file as a Smart Object with the menu, by
using the Place command, or by converting an
already open file to a Smart Object. However,
if you set the Camera Raw preferences to
open all JPEGs and TIFFs as in the previous
task, you can also have Camera Raw
automatically send the file to Photoshop as a
Smart Object. This setting is not obvious;
however, once you set it, the option continues
to work until you deselect the option.
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DIFFICULTY LEVEL
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2
1 Open an image in Camera Raw.
2 Make any adjustments.
3 Click the blue underlined photo
description.
Note: This description is also a link
to the Workflow Options dialog box.
3
4
A
5
6
The Workflow Options dialog box
appears showing the settings of
the image.
4 Click Open in Photoshop as
Smart Objects ( changes
to ).
5 Click OK.
A Open Image changes to Open
Object in the Camera Raw dialog
box.
6 Click Open Object to open the
file as a Smart Object.
Note: All Camera Raw files will
open as Smart Objects until you
deselect this option.
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