Inspiring

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Merge Group vs convert to Smart Object and rasterize? [Script]

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
December 7, 2024
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I'd want you share your opinion.
Іs complex group with styles and different overlay modes converted to smart object before rasterizing be more clean than direct rasterizing?
I am using this in a script, it would be faster direct rasterization. Just want to make sure it's not hallucination that converting to smart object before rasterization is more stable.

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Brainiac

When you merge a group, you lose (cut off) all the pixels that are outside the canvas. This is the only downside.

Converting to a smart object takes longer and can be affected by blurring due to accidental scaling.

There may also be problems with non-standard profiles and bit modes.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

When you merge a group, you lose (cut off) all the pixels that are outside the canvas.

This does not appear to happen in all cases. (With Layer Masks on Adjustment Layers it certainly can prove a problem later on.)

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Brainiac

I can't reproduce this (CS6).

I remember that on some version of CC (~2020) they started to partially change the algorithms for merging layers and groups. Because of this, some old scripts stopped working correctly.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Just want to make sure it's not hallucination that converting to smart object before rasterization is more stable.

It shouldn’t be.

Could you please post screenshots taken at View > 100% with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) visible to illustrate what you bean by »more stable«?

dendenis82Author

Inspiring

As one of the cases I'm facing right now. Can't remember for sure what the others are like, but it refers to complex combinations(blend modes, clip mask, filter masks, objects with styles as mask etc. and whatever it possible to collect in single group).

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Brainiac

Interesting case.

Somehow connected with the fact that there is both a mask and effects on the group.

Maybe even a bug.

This can be avoided by placing such a group in another one, but without a mask and effects, and then merge it. But no one encourages you not to use smart objects.

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