Smart Photos - Perfect Photo Suite

Smart Photos

Smart Photos are a special PSD format that allows you to save your settings and masks from each module that you use so you can go back and re-edit them later. Any settings you make, including masks and control points, are readjustable later.

Creating a Smart Photo
To create a Smart Photo, select the Smart Photo checkbox in the Edit What dialog when you open an image. If you access Perfect Photo Suite as a plug-in from Lightroom or Aperture you have the choice each time you send a Photoshop file. You can also convert a layer in Perfect Layers to a Smart Layer, which converts the image to a Smart Photo, if you have Perfect Layers.

Re-Editing a Smart Photo
There are several ways to open and re-edit a Smart Photo depending on your product configuration:

If you have the Perfect Photo Suite you can re-edit a Smart Photo by double-clicking on the module entry in the Smart Photo History pane in Perfect Browse or the Layers pane in Perfect Layers or just click on the module in the module selector.
If you have a standalone application like Perfect Effects, Perfect B&W, Perfect Portrait or Perfect Enhance, simply open the image and your settings will be reloaded automatically.

Similar to Smart Objects in Photoshop, Smart Photos have certain limitations. You cannot use any tool that will change the original pixels, such as crop or transform. This includes the retouching tools in Perfect Layers, however you can use them in Portrait and Enhance. You cannot change the image size or proportions either, so no crop or Resize.