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5. In the resulting dialog box, choose Bounding Box in the Crop To menu,
then click OK.

Because this is a native Illustrator file (identified by the “.ai” extension), you have the
same Crop To options as when you actually open an Illustrator file in Photoshop.

Note:
Smart Objects provide
extremely tight
integration between
Adobe Photoshop and
Adobe Illustrator. You
6. In the Options bar, change the W and H fields to 100%. Press Return/Enter can take advantage
to finalize the change. of the sophisticated
Placed files are not always scaled exactly proportionally; it’s a good idea to check and vector-editing features in
(if necessary) restore the original height-to-width aspect ratio. Adobe Illustrator, and
then place those files into
Change both fields to 100%.
Photoshop without losing
the ability to edit the
vector information.

Note:
7. Press Return/Enter to finalize the placement of the first file.
Unfortunately you can
8. Repeat Steps 4–7 to place Tantamount.ai as a Smart Object layer. only place one file at
a time using the Place
dialog box.
The three placed files
are stored on layers
whose names are
based on the placed
file names.
The placed files are
Smart Object layers.

9. Save the file and continue to the next stage of the project.
Right now, you have an unorganized mess of four raster images and three embedded
Smart Objects all piled on top of one another. You will start to make sense of these files
in the next stage of this project.

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