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

Note:
Unfortunately, you can
only place one file at
7. Press Return/Enter to finalize the placement of the first file. a time using the Place
8. Repeat Steps 4–7 to place Tantamount.ai as a Smart Object layer. dialog box.

The three placed files
are stored on layers
with names 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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