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Applying effects to multiple layers

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Applying effects to multiple layers

I saved my progress as precisely aligned clones.psd found inside the 29_smart_objects folder. In this exercise we're going to take all eight of our true clones. Every one of which links back to a single layer of text and we're going to transform all of these objects into a big watermark, and we're going to do that pretty simply actually just by applying a bevel and emboss effect and a fill opacity value of zero. However, here's the big problem even though I can apply that exact combination of features to a single layer if I wanted to, for example, I'll twirl open the middle group and I'll click on that top company layer right there so that this guy right there incidentally. And then I'll click on the FX icon, I'll choose bevel and emboss and the default settings that I'm seeing right here are actually pretty darn good. I think I might take the size value down to five pixels, I definitely want an inner bevel incidentally, a depth of 100% so I'll take size down to five pixels, I'll…

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