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4. Press Return/Enter to commit (finalize) the placement.
After you finalize the placement, the bounding box handles and crossed diagonal lines
disappear. In the Layers panel, the placed file has its own layer (just as the copied layers
do). This layer, however, is automatically named, based on the name of the placed file.
The layer’s thumbnail indicates that this layer is a Smart Object — it is linked to the
file that you placed. Because you are essentially placing a link to the vector file, it isn’t
rasterized into the Photoshop file; the vector information is maintained.

Smart Object
thumbnail
When you place a file
into a Photoshop file,
the placed file name is
used as the layer name.

Note:
5. Repeat Steps 1–4 to place the two remaining logo files (sun-white.ai Smart Objects provide
and tantamount-white.ai) as Smart Objects into the composite file.
extremely tight
When you place Smart Objects, they are automatically placed into the center of the integration between
document window. So right now, you have a fairly incomprehensible mess of four raster Adobe Photoshop and
images and three vector objects all piled on top of one another. You’ll start to make sense Adobe Illustrator. You
of these files in the next stage.
can take advantage
of the sophisticated
vector-editing features in
Adobe Illustrator, and
then place those files into
Photoshop without losing
the ability to edit the
vector information.

Note:
Unfortunately you can
only place one file at
6. Save the file and continue to the next stage of the project. a time using the Place
Embedded command.

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