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Estuardo26284182n5or
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August 28, 2024
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Photoshop vector printing

  • August 28, 2024
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Good morning every body, at the moment of printing an art from Photoshop, if you have a vectors as SmartObjects and also raster images, does Photoshop send vectors as vectors and raster as raster? I knew that Illustrator does something similar, or just resterizes everything before? 

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

In Photoshop Vector Smart Object instances are pixel content and will not output as vectors – period. 

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c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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August 29, 2024

How complex is the vector content?

Have you tried pasting it as Layers? Depending on the used features Shape and Type Layers might be produced. 

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    August 29, 2024

    In Photoshop Vector Smart Object instances are pixel content and will not output as vectors – period. 

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      Estuardo26284182n5orAuthor
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      September 2, 2024

      So at the end, In my workplace they basically forbid us to use photoshop , "because Illustrator print vectors better than Photoshop..." which I think besides specific cases, what matters is having the artwork set for the right size, since everything goes raster at the end, specially if your artwork has both raster images and vectors as Smart Object embedded.

       

       

       

      NB, colourmanagement
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      August 29, 2024

      @Estuardo26284182n5or Everything gets rasterised on the way to the printer unless it has a RIP, in that case, the RIP does the rasterising since only a raster can be printed. The advantage of vectors is that this in RIP rasterisation can be superior. 

       

      I hope this helps
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        Semaphoric
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        August 28, 2024

        What is the source of the vector Smart Objects? And is the program that created them on the same computer as Photoshop?

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          Estuardo26284182n5orAuthor
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          August 28, 2024

          Yes it should be in the same computer, normally they should come from illustrator or as en eps or svg

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