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bamsen61
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May 8, 2019
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How to set defaults for "Place Linked"?

  • May 8, 2019
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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?

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Morten A. Steien

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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May 8, 2019

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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bamsen61Author
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May 8, 2019

For me resizing is not the issue. All the images i place needs to be sized to fit.

The issue is defaulting the W and H options to show Pixels and the lock aspect ratio to be on.

The values for size and position does not matter.

Bojan Živković11378569
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Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
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May 8, 2019

The reason I need the constrain lock to be on, is that I need to specify a specific number of pixels for Width.

Also it maybe works in the same session, but I need it to work between sessions also.


You can do something using actions if you are interested for that solution. You can record Place step and immediately after that Free Transform step. That should work fine.

By the way, you do not need to change measurement unit to type some exact number of pixels, just do it if you know that number in advance and add px after number: type, for example, 1100px in width field regardless of which measurement unit is currently set, Photoshop will accept and translate as need to second field which cen be set to some other unit.

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