I’d heard of the technique, but (as usual) the internet was full of conflicting ideas, with the only agreement being that everyone is doing it wrong. And a vocal minority saying it shouldn’t be done at all.
I became a designer as an excuse to spend my days playing with photographs. After trying an SLR camera it was obvious I could get good at this. I found a way to scan film so my photos could could edited using state-of-the-art-in-1994 Photoshop version 2.5.
My MacBook Pro met my needs. For web design, print design and some medium duty photo editing, it was fine. I was happy to wait for Apple’s next supercomputer…
…until I wasn’t.
Rethinking the Adobe Photo Editing Workflow – Pt 2. How to use Photoshop Smart Objects to encapsulate your work, applying almost any edit non-destructively.
Do you edit large batches of images? Perhaps linking to external files appeals to you?
Due to Illustrator’s inability to Warp linked images and my unwillingness to suggest you embed raster images due to editability problems, we need a secondary approach for raster artwork.
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