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3. Press Return/Enter to finalize the placement. Note:
After you finalize the placement, the bounding-box handles and crossed diagonal If you check Skip
lines disappear. In the Layers panel, the placed file has its own layer (just as the copied Transform when Plac-
layers do). This layer, however, is automatically named, based on the name of the ing in the General pane
placed file. of the Preferences dialog
The layer’s thumbnail indicates that this layer is a Smart Object — it is linked to the box, you will not see
file that you placed. Changes in the original file will also be reflected in the file in the diagonal lines and
which the original is placed. transform handles when
you first place a Smart
Object layer.

The layer adopts the
name of the placed file.

This icon identifies
an embedded Smart
Object layer.

4. Choose File>Place Embedded again. Select Rating.ai and click Place.
Vector graphics offer several advantages over raster images, including sharper edges
and free scaling without deteriorating image quality. To take advantage of these
benefits, you might want to maintain vector files as vector objects instead of rasterizing
them. Photoshop gives you the option to do exactly that — maintaining vector
information and raster information in the same file.

5. In the resulting Open as Smart Object dialog box, choose Bounding Box
in the Crop To menu, and 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.

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