What is Smart Object_Adobe Photoshop CC

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Smart Objects is one of the feature in Photoshop to let you preserve an image’s source content with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform nondestructive editing to the layer.

How to convert to a Smart Object?
Easier way to convert is right click on the layer of your choice, there will be drop down menu, chose Convert to Smart Object.

Smart Object benefits

• Perform nondestructive transforms. You can scale, rotate, skew, distort, perspective transform, or warp a layer without losing original image data or quality because the transforms don’t affect the original data.
• Work with vector data, such as vector artwork from Illustrator, that otherwise would be rasterized in Photoshop.
• Perform nondestructive filtering. You can edit filters applied to Smart Objects at any time.
• Edit one Smart Object and automatically update all its linked instances.
• Apply a layer mask that’s either linked or unlinked to the Smart Object layer.
• Try various designs with low-resolution placeholder images that you later replace with final versions.

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