In photoshop, anyone who’s scaled an image down, changed their mind and then tried to stretch the image to its original size will know of the pixellated mess that occurs.

This can now be avoided with the Smart Objects feature. It allows you to scale the image like a vector object. You can reduce and enlarge a photo without loosing the image quality. This feature is only available in photoshop CS2 and above. By using the Smart Object feature, the original image is embedded in the layer so any resizing that occurs calls on the original hi-res version.

1. To add a smart object, all you need to do is go to File > Place.

2. Choose your picture and click place. Your image will open with a bounding box around it. Use this to scale the image. Hold down Shift key and drag the corner point. After that press Enter to confirm your selection.

3. This is your Smart Object layer. Your Smart Object should have a little page icon in the bottom right corner of the layer’s thumbnail.

Now, enlarging and shrinking the object is no longer a problem with Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop.

I am out for training this week in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center. This training is provided by our company. What training my company is sending me to? Business process management (bpm), maybe my boss thinks I should improve my skill in this area. After this training, I am able to learn the how to efficiently aligning a company with the wants and needs of customers. Then I can help my company to promote business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation and integration with technology. BPM also helps to continuously improve processes within an organization to define, measure and improve your processes also called process optimization.

Suddenly this question hit into my head. If we know what are the common problems, we really can avoid them
1. Leaving the ISO set to 1600 when you are shooting in bright daylight
2. Arriving at your location and found out you didn’t bring memory card or film
3. Not using tripod for slow shutter speeds and then discovering all your photos are blurred
4. Putting a filter in your jacket pocket, taking the jacket off and then sitting on it
5. Picking up your camera bag when it’s not zipped up and the contents drop out
6. Forget to charge your batteries and only found out after you have leaved home
7. Failing in the river, lake, sea when you are carrying your camera bag which all your gears are in
8. Turning up to photograph an event the day AFTER the event (is it possible? hehe)

I have also created a thread in Lowyat.net & ClubSnap.com, see what other forumers said….

Lowyat.net: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/518677

ClubSnap.com: http://forum.clubsnap.com/showthread.php?t=310149