How to set defaults for "Place Linked"?

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Hi,I use place linked a lot and I am quite annoyed that the place linked options are always defaulted to out of the box settings.For W and H, I always want these to be in pixels.But most importantly I always want W and H to be linked to keep the aspect ratio.These settings defaults to % for W and H and to unlinked.How can I set permanent preferences for these options?---Morten A. Steien

JJMack · Answer

You need to be careful with Place. It will resize images if the Image file being Placed in Print DPI setting does not match the document resolution. Also if the Smart Object Layer created is larger than the document canvas size with Adobe's default preference Resize during place. Place will use the place transform settings to scale the layer to fit on the canvas and you will see width and height transform setting less the 100% when place scale the layer to fit onto the document canvas. If you doe nor want Place to scale large smart object layers toe fit one canvas uncheck the preference resize during place. The wording of the preference is confusing. Image resizing for some reasons unknown to me is done when Resolution are different. IMO Images should not be degraded via interpolation by Phooshop. The percents shoul be the same Aspect ration is maintained. Here I placed in large portrait into a lanscape canvas

Upchecking Resize durinf place Ine the cas ther Resolutiom ,atcge the image was not resized and yhe large smart object layer was not scaled to fit

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