Reply To: Smart Objects getting trimmed

[Damon BellKeymaster]

What Alysa said is correct.

Also, I put the default at optimized smart object size because in my testing there were not really any situation I found where the layers need to be scaled more than 25% larger.

If you want full size smart objects then just select that in the dropdown. However, if you are building larger teams, the full size smart objects use a ton of RAM and scratch disk. Say you images are 50 megapixels and you have a team of 100 players then it would be the same as have 100 50 megapixel images open at the same time. Furthermore, Photoshop doesn’t clear the scratch disk space when you close the team. It’s just keep adding to the scratch disk pile with every team you build.

So for normally use cases, optimized smart objects are a better choice. With those, you will normally see it at 80% scaling on the first row. I know that seem like only 20% smaller (not 25%) because the math is different after they are downscaled. For example., if the image display size is 1,000px, it brings it in at 1,250 which is 125% of 1,000… but when they size down to 1,000 it makes that 80% of 1,250 (1,000/1,250).

Hope this all makes sense….