Photoshop Vectors and Smart Objects Create Blurring

I have been supplied a Photoshop document that has Illustrator Vector files that have been placed in the PSD as Smart objects.
When I bring the PSD into InDesign and print it, all the PSD artwork is blurry.
How can I get the PSD file to print from InDesign at high quality.
The PSD file is at 300 dpi. I have tried bringing it into InDesign as PSD, TIFF, EPS & PDF, but it's the same issue every time.

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Lightroom, Photoshop CS3 and Smart Objects

Is there a way to select a raw file in Lightroom and choose to have it open in
Photoshop CS3 as a smart object, or can this only be done thru ACR? I've looked
over v1.1 and didn't notice this as an option.

If I want to do any editing not allowed to smart objects such as clone stamp I can then create a layer and then apply the clone stamp to the layer, can't I?
And that is where the underlying Smart Object starts losing (some of) its usefulness.
Because all those edits will be unaffected if you should choose to change the development settings of the embedded RAW.
Secondly, should I also convert all layers to smart layers or leave them as a normal layer.
What for?
Unless you want to non-destructively apply transformations or Filters or need several instances of something in one file it would mainly cause a drag on performance. (Edit: or bloat the files’s size)
But in those cases Smart Objects offer significant advantages.

Lightroom develop, Photoshop Raw and Smart objects

I understand that Lightroom's Develop function and Photoshop Raw adjustments are the same. So I adjust in either or. I can then open the photo as a smart object in photoshop. I can then make further adjustments as an adjustment layer. Which I think is the same as both Lightroom's Develop function and Photoshop Raw adjustments? I understand smart objects allows non destructive editing and smart filters.
SO my questions are: When would you not open the photo as a smart object? Surely I should always open the photo as a smart object? If I want to do any editing not allowed to smart objects such as clone stamp I can then create a layer and then apply the clone stamp to the layer, can't I?
Secondly, should I also convert all layers to smart layers or leave them as a normal layer.
Or thirdly, am I way off track?

If I want to do any editing not allowed to smart objects such as clone stamp I can then create a layer and then apply the clone stamp to the layer, can't I?
And that is where the underlying Smart Object starts losing (some of) its usefulness.
Because all those edits will be unaffected if you should choose to change the development settings of the embedded RAW.
Secondly, should I also convert all layers to smart layers or leave them as a normal layer.
What for?
Unless you want to non-destructively apply transformations or Filters or need several instances of something in one file it would mainly cause a drag on performance. (Edit: or bloat the files’s size)
But in those cases Smart Objects offer significant advantages.

Opening photo from bridge into photoshop converts to smart object

Instead of opening the psd-file normally from bridge into photoshop the file converts to smart object.
I used to work with CS3 where double-clicking in Bridge on a psd-file would open it in Photoshop. Now, when I double click in Bridge (CS6) it opens a "quick time pro" file, which I definitely don't want. When I use the right mouse to "place in Photoshop" it does so, but then automatically converts the file into a smart object, which I don't want either. What need I do to open a psd-file in Bridge as normal psd-file in Photoshop?
Thanks in advance for help.
EVAMLG0507

Hi C. Pfaffenbichler
yes, there is a "Photoshop Document" in the list, but it has not
association. when I click on the little arrow on that line it "searches"
and shows all the files in the "program X86" on the C-drive. but I don't
know what to associate it with, or said differently, I don't know what file
in "programX86" to associate it with.
EVAMLG0507
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Vector and my object??

hi all,
I am reading a binary file, then creating the object and adding that object in my vector. How can i get it back according to its id? let is say i added all the customers read from file and now i want to get customer 3?
int thisId=dis.readInt();
String thisName=dis.readUTF();
double thisBalance=dis.readDouble();
Customer cus=new Customer(thisName,thisId,thisBalance);
cusList.add(cus);
abdul

Best possible way is to use Hashtable and put customerid as key and Customer object
as value.
Modify your code with,
Customer cus=new Customer(thisName,thisId,thisBalance);
some-hashtable-object.put(thisId,cus);
now if you want to take particular Customer
use
Customer c = (Customer)some-hashtable-object.get(any customerid);
Now if you don't want to use Hashtable and continue with Vector then you have to iterate the,
Vector and whether object has id 3 .
like
for(int i=0;i<Vectorobject.size();i++){
Customer c = (Customer) Vectorobject.get(i);
id = c.getCustomerId() // or any method you have to get id;
// check it....
But i think Hashtable is the better way to use here.
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RE: Camera Raw and Smart Objects

Hello Everyone.
I have a question please.
Inside the Camera Raw 8.1, Inside the Workflow Options, I Checked the Box for Open In Photoshop as a Smart Objects.
I noticed Inside the Camera Raw, Open Image box turn to, Open Object box. I click on open, and It opened the Image as a Smart Objects Inside the Photoshop.
If I make any changes to the Image, and If I Double Click on the Smart Object, It will Open In Camera Raw again which Is good.
I also noticed If I do any changes to the Image Inside the Camera Raw to the Smart Object after clicking on Open Smart Objects I see the changes Inside the Photoshop also.
But If I do any changes to the Image Inside the Photoshop,and later I Double Click on the Image the Image opens Inside the Camera Raw, without any changes.
This Is my question: The Smart Object Image Is still a Raw Image ?
This Is my next question:
I know If I open a Raw Image Inside the Camera Raw, and If I click on Done, the image is still a Raw Image, which Is good, and If I click on Reset Bottom, It will reset It back. If I only change the White Balance and Click on Done and go back to the Camera Raw again, and I choose As Shot, the Image goes back the Original Raw file.
But If I do other changes such as the exposure, any color change, and click on done I can never go back to the original..
In the past month I been working with the Lightroom, and I noticed if I open a Raw image Inside the Lightroom, and do any changes to that Image,, any time I can click on the Reset and the Raw image goes back to its original.
I don't think we can do this with Camera Raw can we ?

Clear removes the Camera raw settings completely. You will not see the adjustment icon on the thumbnail in Bridge
Camera Raw Defaults will show the icon and double clicking the thumbnail will always open it in Camera Raw with the Default settings. The Default is "As Shot", which is why you don't see any difference. It's when you choose a Custom Default that you will. It will stay with the Camera Raw file.
See this article by Julienne Kost.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2009/10/setting_new_camera_raw_default.html
Another difference is with Jpegs. Open a Jpeg in ACR, make an adjustment, click "Done". Select "Camera Raw Defaults" and it will always open in ACR instead of Photoshop. Select "Clear" and it's a normal jpeg that will once again open in Photoshop.
Basically that's about all I know, I normally don't use ACR much.

Send a raw photo from lightroom to photoshop as a smart "object"

how to send a raw photo from lightroom to photoshop as a smart "object" not a flat "image" so it does not flatten the image but so I still get all the adjustments i have made in lightroom to show up in photoshop?

Select the image in Lightroom, choose 'Edit in' from Photo menu then choose 'Open as Smart Object in Photoshop'. The file will transfer to Photohop (Ps) complete with Lr applied edits which can be refined in Camera Raw by double clicking on icon in the Ps Layers panel (see screen shot).

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ACR and Smart Objects...
Ok, I'm trying to take the plunge into Smart Objects. I want to control localized luminance as well as localized contrast adjustments (using masks in PS CS3) in a non destructive and flexible way. Instead of the usual: bringing into PS multiple exposures of a single Raw image, or bringing into PS multiple bracketed images (landscape) I am exploring the idea of bringing these images into PS as Smart Objects.
I have figured out how to work with multiple copies of a single Raw image as Smart Objects, but can not figure out how to get different bracketed Raw files layered into PS as Smart Objects...
Would someone offer some assistance, if it is possible?
Thank you!

>Would someone offer some assistance, if it is possible?
If you have multiple images (as opposed to multi versions of the same image) you'll need to open each of the images as separate SO's and separate documents, then drag them into one document.

Lightroom - Photoshop and Smart Objects

Hi there,
I've got a very general, work flow related question.
I want to open some of my Lightroom images as smart objects in photoshop to do certain changes.
The files are opened in PS as .tif and I add some layers etc.
If I now save the image, it gets re-imported in LR.
However, I seem to lose all the data like layers etc of photoshop, and I'm not sure how to prevent this.
If I close the image in photoshop, re-open the new LR image again in PS, the layers etc are gone.
What's the correct workflow to do this? (Open images from LR in PS to do adjustments, and save them back to LR)
Thanks a lot,
Christoph

When you re-open the tif file in Photoshop, choose Edit Original. What you're doing is opening with LR adjustments, causing it to create a new flattened tif.

Blur Gallery and Smart Objects

Despite a lot of reading I am not understanding some of the subtleties here. I have converted my layer to a smart object, and then gone into blur gallery where I have used Iris blur where I have dropped two different pins with the intent of isolating two different areas of sharpness in the photo.
Then after I have rendered the filter I click on the smart object layer mask, and use a brush directly on the image to try and paint on some additional areas of blur. Unfortunately nothing seems to happen. I can wipe away some areas of blur, that exist but I can't do it in all blurred areas of the photo. According to the video I should be able to paint on additional areas of blur. I suspect this all has something to do with the fact that I am using two separate pins in the blur gallery, but I can't figure out how everything interacts.
Hope someone can shed some light on this.

I am not sure what I could show you a screen shot of. My problem is that I want to paint directly on the mask in order to add or subtract additional areas to it with a brush.
If I double-click on the name of the of the smart filter in the layers panel it reopens the blur gallery, and yes I can edit the mask there, but not by using a brush. The tools for editing the mask in the blur gallery are not allowing me to get the precise shape I want, and that is why I wanted to edit the mask directly outside of the blur gallery. This video here CreativeCloud Smart Object Support for Blur Gallery and Liquify in Photoshop CS6 Creative Cloud - YouTube from Adobe indicates at approximately the 1 minute mark, that doing what I am suggesting will work; Unfortunately I am having only limited success.

Photoshop CS6 Scaling issues: Vector/Raster smart objects

My team and I have noticed some strange issues when affecting the overall interpolation of a .psd via scaling, cropping, or canvas resize.
Test:
Original .psd is even x even overall pixel dimensions.
Original vector and raster smart object assets are all proportionally scaled with width x height percentages equal.
Preferences: "Snap vector tools and transforms to pixel grid" is turned off
Resize .psd via Image > Image Size palette.
Scale styles, constrain proportions selected.
Every interpolation style tested.
Resize the .psd to 50%
Result: All smart objects (both types) no longer are proportionately scaled. Usually off by a minor amount under 1/10th of a percent.
Some objects' center point shift a half pixel to the right or left.
This also occurs if we use the crop tool or resize the canvas.
Is this a known bug and if so, is there:
1) any setting to truly lock proportions?
2) any resolution being pursued currently?
Though the shift and the disproproptions seem minor, the overall quality of items such as icons, hairlines, and other things that should be more crisp become far more degraded in CS6 vs CS5.
We have over 100 users and need to evaluate if we should drop back down to CS5, where we weren't having any of these issues, as our work demands a lot of precision, so you can see why this is worrisome.
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I'm not going to say anything about the abysmal rendering of Vector Smart Objects in CS6 because it'll be beating a dead horse but I can explain the issues you see with measurements after scaling.
The slightly disproportionate scaling and half-pixel shift of the centre is unavoidable when it happens because the resulting Smart Object/Vector Smart Object must measure an integer number of pixels in height and width and be perfectly aligned to the document pixel grid. That's true in CS5 and CS6.
Say a SO/VSO originally measures 102 x 103 pixels and you scale it by 50%. The Options bar may say the result is 51 x 51.5 px but the result will really be 51 x 52 px, and therefore the new height will really be 50.49% of the old height.
The original SO/VSO is an even number of pixels wide and an odd number of pixels high, therefore its centre will be halfway down a pixel. The 50%-scaled SO/VSO is an odd number of pixels wide and an even number of pixels high, therefore its centre will be halfway across a pixel.

MergedCompositeChannels and smart object

Is mergedCompositeChannels include previos smart filter ?
My filter plugin drawing some lines on document for comic artists.
I'm using Channnel Port Suite's ReadScaledPixels Callback with mergedCompositeChannels for preview.
When I create the smart object and apply my filter, double-click filter's name on tumbnail and modify parameters, it looks strange that first filter's result was shown on preview area.
If I add same filter on that smart object, the second one is works fine, only first filter on smart object has strange effect.
Anyone suggest me?

I do three things in Photoshop:
1. add background
2. apply a glow around the imported vector graphics to enhance visibility
3. apply an texture overlaying the whole thing
And I forgot to mention before that, in addition to printing, I also need to save the final images into individual JPGs or PNGs for digital preview.
1. I can do in Illustrator, but I've found that adding any raster content in the AI significantly increases the file size and slows all operations. So I'm trying to avoid doing this.
2. and 3. can also be done in Illustrator, but I've found the results to look much better in Photoshop. Not sure why, it just does...
But even if I do all of these in Illustrator, it does not solve the problem of extremely long operation time, since I will still need to eventually export the artboards into separate files. Illustrator does the same thing as Photoshop when exporting: it rasterizes the entire file and then cut them down to each artboard, which, again causes the operation time to grow exponentially as artboard increases.
EDIT:
I have also tried exporting the rasterized image as one single image, and then slice them up in Photoshop. Unfortunately, the AI file is so big that Illustrator cannot export them as one rasterized image.
I also prefer to minimize batch operations in Illustrator. A long batch operation in Illy will prevent me from doing anything for tens of minutes, whereas I can continue to work on different things in Illustrator while Photoshop is running a batch operation.

Transparency of the Smart Object created in Illustrator

Hi guys! Anybody smarter than me?
I created vector object in Illustrator with opacity masks:
I inserted saved .ai file {by draging from Br} into Ps as Smart Object.
But have a look at the imgs. below: You can see, that the masked area using Ai - Opacity mask is 100% demasked in Ai, but do you understand, what the same area does when .ai file is converted to the Smart Object in Ps? Do you have any ide what can cause such difference in rendering of the same object?
Thank you in advance!

Make sure you are using the same color space in both programs and create your mask in the destination color space. It is a color management problem. This problem is because you are using different color spaces in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Most likely you created the mask in a CMYK color space (document) in Illustrator and your Photoshop document is using an RGB color space. In fact you will have the same problem in Illustrator if you convert your CMYK document to RGB by using File > Document Color mode or copy the artwork from a CMYK document and paste it in a RGB document. Have in mind that the problem is not limited only to converting between CMYK and RGB color spaces, you could have the same problem when converting between two different color spaces using the same color model like RGB, for example sRGB in Illustrator and Adobe RGB in Photoshop. For additional details regarding similar problems with color spaces check this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3911412#3911412

Photoshop CS6 - Pasting Smart Objects from InDesign CS6 look awful

Since upgrading from CS5 I'm having a huge problem using Smart Objects.
What:
Smart Objects pasted from InDesign into Photoshop are pixelated and corny beyond belief. Originating material placed in InDesign is hi-res (e.g. 600ppi) but when pasted in PS it looks crappy.
How:
Selecting an image in InDesign and pasting it in PS in a 72ppi file.
Typically I need to copy elements from previous art in ID and re-compose and use for web.
Why:
Can't seem to fix it. Have tried with Anti-Aliasing both on and off to no avail. None of the Image Interpolation settings affect this either.
Only solution is to scale the placed Smart Object to something like 400% where it suddenly looks nice again, rasterize and then scale it back down.
Theory:
Smart Object scaling is flawed in PS CS6.
Note: All scaled images in InDesign already look gritty and awful. Even with Display Performance: High Quality set (using default settings). Seems to me like CS6 scaling is b a d.
Anyone else seeing this?
Thanks
Image 1: Smart Object rasterized at same size as placed. (ouch. awful.)
Image 2: Smart Object Scaled to 400%, rasterized and then scaled back to original size (yum yum, like it used to be without up-rasterize-down-scaling)

That does not resolve the anti-aliasing issue in CS6 - it still looks rather bad.
The anti-aliasing sampling method applied to smart vector objects is just extremely bad looking. And it is not merely an issue in Photoshop: exporting artwork from Illustrator at web/screen resolution using the web export is absolutely abysmal looking (not other word applies here, unfortunately).
I explain more about this issue here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/6002543#6002543
The best option is to blow up the artwork, rasterize, and then scale down with bicubic or bicubic automatic, depending. But even then you will not achieve the same quality that can be attained with other tools that, for example, support catmul rom and mitchellnetravali for downsampling.
Anyway, Adobe applications are very weak when it comes to proper downsampling and file size optimization for web and screen graphics. You're better off looking someplace else.

RGB and Smart Objects

When I place separate images into my CMYK master document, should I be placing them as smart objects and preserving their RGB values? Is there any benefit or detriment to doing that? I imagine it's good to preserve the RGB values, but if I am always going to print to a CMYK press with that particular document, then does it benefit me in any way? I've shied away from keeping the RGB values because I feel like they give me a false view of what the CMYK doc will turn out to look like. Any suggestions?

Stephanie:
I am not being unkind but there is SO much more to this subject than you currently begin to comprehend.
Let's start with your Color Management settings:
(gballard's web site, to which we directed you in your other thread, will be a great help to you in getting a better understanding of this subject.)
You simply MUST start with a properly calibrated and PROFILED monitor. That is non-negotiable so buy a spectrometer (Puck) if you don't already have one.
In your CM settings you have a selection of choices but if you are sending work to a Press, it is absolutely essential that you choose a CMYK Profile which is targeted to the KIND of Press and the type of Stock on which your job will run.
And of course you can, and SHOULD, create your document in a recognized RGB working space (either ProPhoto or Adobe RGB but NOT sRGB) and embed that Profile into your document because you then have the flexibility to CONVERT that RGB file to the correct CMYK Profile for the job.
And your Printing Company has some terms of reference, and the means of rectifying your file, if your CMYK conversion does not meet the requirements of their Presses.
Next, you need to learn to use Soft Previews.
You should set your proposed CMYK Profile as your Preview Profile (in Photoshop's View menu/Proof Set-up/Custom) making sure that you have checked "Simulate Paper Color".
If you keep "Proof Colors" checked, you can work in RGB while getting a very clear idea of how your colors will actually print when the ink hits paper on the Press.

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