Smart-Object improvements

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April 25, 2025
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I'm waiting for Smart-Objects improvements for years now and nothing happens. Are there any plans to work on them any more? This would be much more important for productivity than all the AI-nonsense we have seen lately.

Here are the biggest issues (at least for my workflow) ...
*) Let us define the scaling interpolation for Smart Objects. I still have to go into Preferences, change the interpolation, re-apply the transform every time I want to change it. That's not really great.
*) Have blend modes from inside the Smart Object being kept as they are. I don't want my "Multiply" layers turned into "Normal" ones when I convert my layers into Smart Objects.
*) Speed improvements. When working with many Samrt Objects the performance goes down significantly.

Maybe there's somebody at Adobe who shares my frustration. It's about time to do something about this. Take a break from AI.

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c.pfaffenbichler

Adobe Expert

*) Have blend modes from inside the Smart Object being kept as they are. I don't want my "Multiply" layers turned into "Normal" ones when I convert my layers into Smart Objects.

If you are talking about multiple Layers of different Blend Modes being converted to one Smart Object then I see no way for that to be implemented with Smart Objects anytime soon.

One Smart Object instance is one Layer and one Layer can only have one Blend Mode.

Andreas ReschAuthor

Inspiring

I don't see it implemented any time soon either as I've been waiting for years to see it being addressed. Technically it should be no issue. Right now I have to create separate smart objects for the layers that use the "Normal" mode and the ones who use other blending modes. It's just very tedious.

c.pfaffenbichler

Adobe Expert

Technically it should be no issue.

Quite the contrary, it would be a big issue; as mentioned previously: One Layer can only have one Blend Mode.

Right now I have to create separate smart objects for the layers that use the "Normal" mode and the ones who use other blending modes. It's just very tedious.

Multiple instances of the same Smart Object with Layer Comps can be useful in such cases.