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Updating true clones in one operation - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Updating true clones in one operation
In this exercise, we are going to see the real power of true clones. We are going to modify one of these text layers and all the other text will change in kind. It's a little tricky though because unless your text is exactly the same physical size after you get done modifying it or changing its formatting, you are going to need to change the size of the Smart Object as well to avoid cropping, and I'll show you how that works in just a moment. I've saved my progress as Watermark.psd found inside the 29_smart_objects folder. Now recall what we have here is this Watermark Smart Object that itself contains three groups, each of which contains their own Smart Object, so that we have smart objects nested inside groups which are nested inside of a Smart Object, which is an entirely acceptable, and by the way, recommended way of working inside Photoshop. Permits us a lot of flexibility, as you're sure about to find out. But in order to edit any one of these text layers, we need to gain access…
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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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