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Copying vs. cloning a Smart Object - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Copying vs. cloning a Smart Object
I have saved the final version of our composition as Digital double exposure.psd. We are now ready to move on to our final project in this chapter and that's Smug guy.psd that comes to us from Ali of the Fotolia image library and you can see that I have got this guy set up as a Camera Raw Smart Object. Now, what we are going to do inside of this project, I am going to show you how you can go about creating true clones of a Camera Raw image if you want to so that all of the clones update in kind every time you make a change inside of Camera Raw. I will also show you how to avoid that, if you'd rather that the two objects were linked to independent images, but first let me show you what's going on, what we are going to be doing by the way is creating a symmetrical face effect. So we are going to cut this guy's face right down the center and then flip the left half over onto the right half so that he has a strangely, bizarrely symmetrical face which is a kind of fun effect actually and…
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Smart Objects = protective containers1m 35s
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Placing an Illustrator graphic6m 29s
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Vector copy and paste options6m 56s
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Applying Puppet Warp to vectors8m 9s
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"Gluing" vector art for Puppet Warp5m 50s
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Warping art onto the surface of an image8m 7s
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Blending a Smart Object4m 30s
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Blurring and blending a Smart Object6m 8s
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Making changes in Illustrator5m 57s
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Creating "true clones"7m 18s
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Double-flipping text4m 44s
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Applying effects to multiple layers3m 24s
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Updating true clones in one operation7m 36s
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Editing JPEGs as Camera Raw objects5m 49s
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Creating a double-exposure effect7m 15s
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Masking and shading transitions7m 47s
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Applying and repeating Camera Raw edits6m 9s
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Copying vs. cloning a Smart Object5m 18s
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Flipping a Smart Object and its mask3m 42s
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Adjusting multiple Camera Raw clones3m 53s
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Text that inverts everything behind it5m 34s
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