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2. Choose the Lightning.jpg file (in your WIP>Movie folder) and click Place.
The placed file appears with bounding box handles and crossed diagonal lines. The
placement isn’t final until you press Return/Enter; if you press the Escape key, the file
will not be placed.
In the Options bar, you can see that the placed image has been scaled to approximately
45% to fit into the document where it is being placed.

The Options bar shows
that the placed image
has been scaled to fit
into the active canvas.
The placed image is
centered in the
document window.

Crossed diagonal lines
and bounding box
handles indicate that the
placement is not yet final.

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

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