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Inspiring
February 18, 2021
質問

Will my smartobjects be effected if I change the ps-file 72 dpi to 300dpi?

  • February 18, 2021
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Hi, 

 

I created all my layers in ai, copy+pasted them to Photoshop and since I will animate the ps-files scaling up in Ae - I need a higher resolution. First: will the quality of the smart objects be affected if I change the ps-file 72 dpi to 300dpi? The same goes for masked brushes, will they also be affected by this change?

 

Also, how can I select all of my ai layers (say 40 for this example), copy-paste them all at once into Photoshop? Importing the ai document just gives me all the layers as on layer. I need them all separated. Like: illustrate in ai, import to Photoshop to create brushes, and then import the ps files to ae. I'm just starting to use Photoshop in my illustration-work instead of Ai so perhaps this is a crazy workflow. 

 

Thanks
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JJMack
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February 18, 2021

All smart are not created the same way how smart object layer behave/works depends on the smart object and what you are doing with the smart object layer.   Some Smart Object are Photoshop objects some smart objects are not Photoshop objects. If you double click one at smart object Layer's Content Thumbnail in the Layers Palette to open it and work on it. Photoshop will create or has create a temp work file in temp space  and it will be opened for you to work on.  If it is a Photoshop object it will open in  Photoshop.  If it is a RAW object it will open in ACR. If it is a Vector object it will open in your vector application  Illustrator.  Smart Object have pixels generated for them that photoshop will use.  These pixels are harden and can not be changed by Photoshop tools. There is a transform for smart  object used to create the smart objects Layer's pixels.  When you transform a smart object layer what you are doing is editing the existing object transform to scale the object to a different size. transform interpolate or copies object pixels to generate the layers pixels.  However, there are exceptions Vector Object AI objects  are processed with vector graphics.  Photoshop does  not have support for Vector Files.  Photoshop has an imported that can via vector graphics create a pixel layer the size the user set.  Basically Photoshop Imports the Vector Object's file the appreciate size to replaces the prior old harden image pixels that get transform 100% to the layers pixel. There are no vector in photoshop for vector objects.  The vectors are in the vector object's file the ai file. You need to get you AI asset into Photoshop as smart object later.  I do not install AI there may be a way to paste in AI file as smart object,.  When I use paste I either paste a clipboard pixels image or clipboard text. I would think Adobe could have  a copy and past object between their applications. I can Placet in AI file as Smat Objects.

JJMack
Inspiring
February 19, 2021

Hi JJmack, thanks for your input!

 

So by copy-pasting one vector layer from Illustrator to Photoshop, that smart-object has been given a set amount of pixels depending on Photoshops document settings. Any changes to the dpi in Photoshop will then make the smart illustrator-layers quality bad and I need to recreate the asset unless I use the "transform" tool you mentioned. Even if I double-click on the thumbnail in Photoshop and make changes in Ai, the same pixels are used, have I understood you correctly?

 

If the latter, opening in ai and scaling the layer up, won't that actually be the preferred way to scale things up then? The problem then is that I have 40 single layers to scale up separately and this cannot be the best way to solve the issue.

Bojan Živković11378569
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Community Expert
February 19, 2021

'Even if I double-click on the thumbnail in Photoshop and make changes in Ai, the same pixels are used, have I understood you correctly?'

If you open illustrator object in Illustrator you will be working with paths not with pixels. Photoshop will render pixels on its layer for its document but in background you will still have paths created in Illustrator which you can change and modify in Illustrator. Even if you scale document Ps should use vector data to generate pixels for use inside Photoshop.

 

Simply changing resolution from 72 to 300 with Resample turned off won't do anything.