Smart Objects Problem : Templates : CS3 : WIN

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Kerwin_Bartinson
Aug 13, 2008
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Hello,

I am trying to create some reusable templates in Photoshop CS3 using Smart Objects. Basically I want to layout the page with some place-holder photos that are smart objects and then when I need to create a page simply load the template PSD, right-click on the smart object layer in the layers palette and choose replace contents. This seems to be possible and even works sometimes. However, a lot of times the size of the smart object images change.

For example I could set a smart object place-holder image to be 4 x 6 – inches at 300 dpi, replace the image with another image and the size will then jump to some odd size. I even had it once go to 2 x 10 inches. I thought the whole point of smart objects was that I could replace the contents and it would be sized, etc. the same. Well that is one point of smart objects.

Is there a bug? Could the fact that I have layer styles and rotation and resize transformations applied to the smart object be creating the problem? Any way around this?

This is Photoshop CS3, Windows Vista, Quad Core Processor, 4GB of RAM, 8 TB of hard drive space.

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