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Smart Objects = protective containers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Smart Objects = protective containers
Smart Objects earn my vote for the worst name for one of the best features in all of Photoshop. First, there is nothing all that smart about them. Unlike content-aware Fill, Color Range, Auto Align layers and a bunch of other automated features, Smart Objects have no intelligence built into them. Second, the term Objects is way too techy and I think misleading. While a Smart Object may contain foreign elements, such as an imported Illustrator graphic or a Camera Raw image and more often than not, holds pixels and pixels are not objects. What Smart Objects are is protective containers. When you place an image into a Smart Object, the image is held from harm. You can scale, rotate and otherwise transform the layer as many times as you want without incurring incremental damage. You can apply filters and modify the settings of those filters well into the future. You can even apply CS5's new Puppet Warp command and keep the pins for later editing, plus there are the side benefits. You can…
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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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