Hi,
I'm using Smart Objects in CS2 and one of my smart objects has mysteriously stopped anti-alising when I shrink it. It looks horrible. Other smart layers in the same document seem to look fine when I shrink them.
I have edited the object, I have copied the object, I have tried everything, and this one smart object just doesn't want to anti-alias. Am I missing an option somewhere?
I had to group the contents of the original smart oject into a group then move it into another smart object to get it to anti-alias the scaled instances.
Any clues anyone?
~Hanford
#1
update: re-opened the file and this is still happening with the same smart object. Am I missing an option?
#2
What kind of file did you place?
What kind of interpolation do you have set in preferences?
#3
Does this smart object have live text in it? That's the only time I've ran across a smart object that refused to anti-alias correctly. (Especially if I'm enlarging the text.)
#4
The smart object was just a normal raster layer that I turned into an Smart Object.
I then edited it and added a color layer, and a few others. It might have had editable text in it at one time but not now. (I did notice the same problem with a smart object of a live text layer in the same document that I've since gotten rid of)
My preferences are set to Bicubic.
Again, other smart objects (including a smart object that is now has the EXACT same as the original) are scaling smoothly.
Thanks,
Hanford
#5
This might be a dumb question, but are you zoomed in at 100%?
#6
Raster Smart Objects use the free transform code to scale (and rotate, etc.).
I don't see how one could misbehave while others work.
Have you tried opening the contents and seeing what's inside?
#7
Hi Chris,
Yes, I've opened both the aliasing one and the anti-aliasing ones, and they both have the same contents. In fact, the working object was created by dragging layers out of the broken one.
I have the file and can send it to you if you're interested in seeing it.
~Hanford
#8
Yes, I'm really curious to see how this could happen.
#9
I tracked it down to something related to the warp options - somehow CS2 thinks there is still a warp on the smart object.
Enabling the warp and setting it to "none", then going back to free transform mode cleared up the problem for this image.
I've got someone looking into how it happened.
#10
I can recreate it:
1. on a new layer, create a small (say 100 x 100 pixel) image.
2. Make that layer a smart object.
3. Edit the Smart Object.
4. Use Canvas Size to resize it to something like 1024 x 768
5. paste or draw artwork that fills the 1024 x 768 space. In my case, I pasted a rendered 3d image that is exactly 1024 x 768 into this new canvas.
6. close and save the new smart object.
The resulting smart object instance will still be 100 x 100, but NOT anti aliased (looks like it's using NN). Sizing it large and small still won't anti-alias it correctly.
I believe the Canvas Size change on the smart object is the culprit.
Hope this helps.
~Hanford.
#11