IntroductionIntroduction to Smart Objects in Photoshop| 00:00 | (music playing)
| | 00:04 | Hi! I'm Chris Converse.
| | 00:05 | In this course, we're going to be taking a
look at using Smart Objects inside of Photoshop
| | 00:09 | to increase your speed and
flexibility when creating design compositions.
| | 00:12 | We're going to be creating Smart Objects out
of large JPEG files, out of layers from other
| | 00:17 | Photoshop files, layers in an existing Photoshop
file, and even Smart Objects from the Illustrator Files.
| | 00:23 | Once we have our Smart Objects in place, we're
going to be duplicating, scaling, transforming
| | 00:27 | them, and then modifying artwork inside of
the Smart Objects so that every instance of
| | 00:31 | a Smart Object can be modified on the canvass.
| | 00:33 | This is going to greatly increase your speed
when creating compositions and modifying
| | 00:38 | compositions based on
creative direction or client changes.
| | 00:42 | So I hope this course sounds
interesting you and if so, let's get started.
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| About the exercise files| 00:00 | Now, if you're a Premium subscriber to the
lynda.com online training library, you'll
| | 00:03 | have access to the exercise files.
| | 00:06 | In here, we have a composition.psd file.
| | 00:08 | This file is going to be an empty shell of
the design, and we're going to be bringing
| | 00:12 | in assets from the other files.
| | 00:14 | This is going to include an Illustrator file, a
really large JPEG file, and two other Photoshop files.
| | 00:20 | We'll be bringing in the assets from these
files into our composition, encapsulating
| | 00:25 | them into Smart Objects so that we can
manipulate the objects without changing the source art.
| | 00:30 | At the end of this course, we'll show you
one additional feature of Smart Objects, which
| | 00:34 | is, they can contain Photoshop animations
inside. And you can use an animated Smart Object very
| | 00:39 | much the same way you would use an animated
symbol inside of Edge Animate or a precomposition
| | 00:43 | inside of After Effects.
| | 00:44 | If you don't have access to the exercise files,
you can use any layered Photoshop file and
| | 00:50 | Illustrator files and follow along with the same
techniques we're going to be doing inside of this course.
| | 00:54 | Now that we're familiar with the exercise files,
next, we'll start putting our composition together.
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1. Creating and Manipulating Smart ObjectsCreating Smart Objects from JPEG files| 00:00 | Now, to begin our project, let's
open up composition.psd up in Photoshop.
| | 00:05 | I'll open my canvas up here a little bit.
| | 00:08 | So inside here, we have a
whole bunch of different folders.
| | 00:10 | We've broken this design down
into individual groups of layers.
| | 00:14 | So at the top, we have the "headline,"
which consists of all of the text layers.
| | 00:17 | We have the promo area, which are
the three callouts at the bottom.
| | 00:21 | We have the main content,
which is currently empty.
| | 00:23 | We have the banner area, which consists right
now of the purple area, our sidebar, and then
| | 00:29 | the bottom gradient.
| | 00:30 | So the first thing we're going to do is
bring in some artwork into the sidebar.
| | 00:35 | So let's open up the sidebar group,
and this is the area over here on the right.
| | 00:38 | What we want to do is bring in the
x-ray.jpg and clip it inside of a circle here.
| | 00:42 | So, let's come back to the operating system, and
let's open up and x-ray.jpg from the exercise files.
| | 00:48 | Now, this is a really large JPEG File.
| | 00:51 | If I hit Command+1 inside of Photoshop to go to
100% or one-to-one view, we can see how large this is.
| | 00:57 | I'm going to hit Command+0 or
Ctrl+0 to go out to fit to screen.
| | 01:03 | Let's come up to the
Selection menu. Let's choose All.
| | 01:07 | Let's come up to Edit, choose
Copy, and then we'll close this.
| | 01:12 | Back in our Photoshop composition,
let's come down to the dotted role.
| | 01:16 | Let's select that layer
inside of the sidebar group.
| | 01:19 | Let's come up to Edit and choose Paste.
| | 01:22 | So by default, Photoshop is
going to paste that artwork in.
| | 01:25 | It's going to match the canvas size of
our composition, and what we'll see here is we
| | 01:28 | have that really large JPEG
file now inside of our composition.
| | 01:32 | Now, before we scale this, we want to be able
to save all of the data from this particular
| | 01:37 | JPEG file, since there's a lot
of resolution inside of here.
| | 01:41 | So what we're going to do is come over
here to the Layers panel, right click, and come
| | 01:45 | up and choose Convert to Smart Object.
| | 01:48 | Once we do that, in the Layers panel we'll see this
little icon here on the lower right-hand side of the layer.
| | 01:53 | This tells us that the data of this object
is now encapsulated inside of a Smart Object.
| | 01:57 | Now we can transform and scale this,
and Photoshop will always go back to the encapsulated artwork
| | 02:02 | inside of the Smart Object to
resample or re-interpolate the image.
| | 02:07 | So now that we've done this,
let's come up to the Edit menu.
| | 02:10 | Let's come down to Transform.
| | 02:11 | We'll choose Scale.
| | 02:13 | You can also hit Command+T or Ctrl+T.
| | 02:16 | You'll see here, if I start to move
this around, I see this X inside of here.
| | 02:20 | This looks like placed artwork that you
would see inside of Illustrator or InDesign.
| | 02:23 | So, what we're going to do here
is start transforming this artwork.
| | 02:27 | Now, to get a sense of how big this Smart
Object is in comparison to our canvas, I'm
| | 02:31 | going to hold Command+Spacebar+Option key, or
in Windows it would be the Ctrl+Spacebar+Alt.
| | 02:38 | That will give me the Magnification tool.
| | 02:40 | I'm going to click a few times to zoom out.
| | 02:44 | And here we can see this is the size of the JPEG file
versus the size of the composition we're working in.
| | 02:50 | So I'm going to come up here and hold the
Option key or Alt in Windows and I'm going
| | 02:55 | to scale this down
proportionately on my canvas.
| | 02:58 | I'm going to hit Return.
| | 03:00 | I'm going to hit Command+1 or
Ctrl+1 to come up to 100% view.
| | 03:05 | Now, we can se the artwork has now have
been scaled or transformed and reinterpolated
| | 03:10 | to the canvass size.
| | 03:12 | At this size, this looks crisp and clean.
| | 03:14 | If I hit Command+T or Ctrl+T to transform
again, I can scale this back up, hit Return,
| | 03:20 | and we'll see that the artwork now gets
reinterpolated again based on the information inside of the
| | 03:24 | Smart Object and I get a nice,
clean representation again.
| | 03:27 | So, I'll hit Command+T one more time.
| | 03:30 | Let's scale this down.
| | 03:32 | We're going to bring this down
to about 70% of the original size.
| | 03:35 | Now, when you're transforming a Smart Object,
you'll see, up in the toolbar here, all of
| | 03:39 | the different settings for this.
| | 03:40 | So let's come over here to the Width.
| | 03:43 | I'm going to hit 7, hit Tab, go to
Height, hit 7, come down to the stage,
| | 03:48 | I'm going to press Return, and this is
going to rasterize the shape at that new size.
| | 03:55 | So with that in place, I'm going to
scroll over here to the right-hand side.
| | 04:00 | With layer 1 selected, let's double-click this.
| | 04:04 | Let's name this x-ray then we'll come over to our
toolbar. Let's come over here to the Vector Shapes.
| | 04:11 | Let's choose the Ellipse tool. Let's come
over into the canvas. Let's click and drag.
| | 04:16 | Let's make a circle at about 150 pixels.
| | 04:19 | Select the Move tool, move
this to about right here.
| | 04:24 | Over in the Layers panel, let's grab x-ray.
| | 04:27 | Let's put this above the
ellipse. Select the Move tool.
| | 04:32 | Let's move the skeleton over the top of the
circle, and now what I want to do is clip group
| | 04:37 | in to Smart Object into the ellipse shape.
| | 04:40 | So, let's come up to the layer menu,
come down, and choose Create Clipping Mask.
| | 04:45 | Now, when I move the skeleton around,
it will be clipped into the circle.
| | 04:49 | Lastly, let's come over to the Layers panel.
| | 04:52 | Let's hold the Command or Ctrl key.
| | 04:55 | Let's select x-ray and the Ellipse tool.
| | 04:58 | Hit Command+G or Ctrl G to create a new group.
| | 05:00 | Let's double-click this and
name it callout. Hit Return.
| | 05:08 | Now with my Move tool, I can
move both of those items together.
| | 05:12 | I could even come in here with these selected,
| | 05:14 | Hit Command+T or Ctrl+T, and scale not only
the Smart Object, but the outer ellipse as
| | 05:20 | well. And since everything here is either a
vector shape or a really large encapsulated
| | 05:24 | Smart Object, I can continue to scale
these any number of times in my composition.
| | 05:30 | So while I'm transforming,
I'll just move this into place.
| | 05:33 | So now that we've created a Smart Object from
a JPEG file, next, we'll create a Smart Object
| | 05:37 | from another Photoshop file.
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| Creating Smart Objects from Photoshop files| 00:00 | Now, we're going to create a Smart
Object out of another Photoshop file.
| | 00:03 | So, in our Layers panel here,
let's close up our sidebar.
| | 00:07 | Let's select Main Content, since we want to
put the runner that we're going to be bringing in
| | 00:11 | into the Main Content Group.
| | 00:14 | With that selected, let's come
back to the operating system.
| | 00:16 | Let's open up the file runner_woman.psd.
| | 00:20 | Now, it might be useful to set
Photoshop to not open documents inside of tabs.
| | 00:27 | You can do that from the
Preferences in Photoshop.
| | 00:30 | Under Interface, you can come down
and disable Open Documents as Tabs.
| | 00:34 | If you do want to work with tabs, I'll show how we
can get the Smart Object into our base composition.
| | 00:39 | So, here we have a Photoshop file that has
two layers: an adjustment layer and a base
| | 00:44 | layer with our runner.
| | 00:46 | The adjustment layer just
changes the color of her shirt.
| | 00:49 | So, I want both of these
to be in the Smart Object.
| | 00:52 | Select the first layer, hold the Command or
Ctrl key, select both layers, then right-click
| | 00:57 | and choose Convert to Smart Object.
| | 01:00 | Once we have a Smart Object,
let's double-click to rename it.
| | 01:04 | We'll call this runner.
| | 01:06 | Now that we have the Smart Object created,
we can grab it from the Layers panel and just
| | 01:09 | drag it right into the
composition file we're working in.
| | 01:13 | The other option is, if you're using
documents open in tabs, you can select the layer, come
| | 01:18 | up to the Layer menu, come
down and choose Duplicate layer,
| | 01:21 | and then from the Document Destination,
come down and choose Composition, then hit OK.
| | 01:27 | In either case, you'll get a copy of
the Smart Object in our composition file.
| | 01:31 | Let's close the runner_woman.psd.
| | 01:34 | Now, back in our main composition, we have a
Smart Object with both of the layers intact,
| | 01:39 | since the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer is
changing the color of her shirt from purple to blue.
| | 01:45 | And so if she doesn't go inside of the
main content group, just drag this right in.
| | 01:48 | Hit Command+T or Ctrl+T, and let's resize
her to position her inside of our composition.
| | 01:55 | So I want her head to be between the words
"Impact" and "of," right about here, and I
| | 02:01 | want her left foot to break the
boundary of the bottom gradient area.
| | 02:04 | So, we're going to size this
roughly to about 38% or 39%.
| | 02:09 | Up here in the toolbar, we can
come up and add in numbers as well.
| | 02:12 | So, I'm going to type in 38%
for the height and the width.
| | 02:16 | Come down and hit Return.
| | 02:18 | So now with our runner in place, next we'll
create a Smart Object from an Illustrator file.
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| Creating Smart Objects from Illustrator files| 00:00 | Now, we're going to create a
Smart Object from an Illustrator file.
| | 00:03 | We're going to put this
inside of the Banner group.
| | 00:04 | So, let's close main content for the moment.
| | 00:07 | Let's open up Banner.
| | 00:09 | Inside of Banner, we just have a
simple rectangle here, colored purple.
| | 00:12 | I'll leave this selected.
| | 00:15 | Let's come back to the operating system.
| | 00:17 | Inside of the Exercise files,
let's open up perforated_metal.ai.
| | 00:19 | Now, this is just a vector
compound shape inside of Illustrator.
| | 00:23 | If I hit Command+Y, you can see all of
these individual circles are set into a compound
| | 00:28 | group with this outermost rectangle.
| | 00:31 | To demonstrate this,
I'll grab the Rectangle tool.
| | 00:34 | I'll just quickly grab a
rectangle, color it red.
| | 00:38 | Put it in the background to
demonstrate how this is transparent.
| | 00:41 | So I'll delete the rectangle.
| | 00:44 | So what are we going to do here is with our
Selection tool, we're going to select this vector shape.
| | 00:48 | From the Edit menu,
we'll come down and choose Copy.
| | 00:50 | Let's close the
Illustrator file. Choose Don't Save.
| | 00:53 | Let's come back to our
main composition in Photoshop.
| | 00:57 | Let's come down and choose Edit and then Paste.
| | 01:00 | Now, when we paste the artwork from
Illustrator, or InDesign by the way, you'll get this
| | 01:04 | Paste dialog box which will ask you
how you want to paste the contents.
| | 01:08 | You can choose Shape Layer since Photoshop
understands the vectors inside of InDesign and Illustrator.
| | 01:14 | You can choose Path.
| | 01:15 | Pixels will simply rasterize
the vector shapes of the canvas.
| | 01:19 | And the last option here, Smart Object, is
the one we're going to choose, which is going
| | 01:22 | to encapsulate all of that
data into a Smart Object.
| | 01:26 | Let's choose OK and then Photoshop will
take all of the Illustrator data, put it inside
| | 01:32 | of the Smart Object, and then
rasterize it to the canvas.
| | 01:35 | So now I can hit Return.
| | 01:36 | I'll hit Command+1 to come up 100%, and
we can see the circles look exactly the same
| | 01:41 | inside of Photoshop as they did in Illustrator.
| | 01:44 | I'm going to zoom out of
the canvas here a little bit.
| | 01:49 | I'm going to hit Command+T or Ctrl+T to transform.
| | 01:51 | I'm going to come in here and scale this.
So I can scale this up to any size.
| | 01:56 | It's always vector, so if I come up to the
Size for example, come up to one, we can see
| | 02:00 | the circles still look great.
| | 02:04 | And so while transforming this,
I'm going to come up to the toolbar at the top.
| | 02:07 | I'm going to set the width and the
height to 105% and then hit Return.
| | 02:13 | Command+1 or Ctrl+1, hit the Spacebar to
move the canvas, get the Move tool, and I'm going
| | 02:20 | to move this into place so I can see six
rows of dots inside of the purple area.
| | 02:24 | Now, over in the Layers panel, let's clip
group the vector Smart Object into the Banner
| | 02:28 | area. Holding Alt or Option,
| | 02:32 | we'll click to group this in.
| | 02:34 | And now to apply a color to the vector Smart
Object, let's come down to the layer effects.
| | 02:38 | Let's choose Color Overlay.
| | 02:42 | Let's click on the red swatch.
| | 02:44 | Let's sample the purple color. Click OK.
| | 02:47 | Let's come over and apply Bevel & Emboss.
| | 02:51 | Over here, for Size, let's
bring this down to 3.
| | 02:54 | Make sure angle is set to 90%.
| | 02:55 | Come down to screen,
| | 02:57 | set this to 40, and come down to
Shadow, and set that to 40 as well.
| | 03:02 | So now for Depth,
let's bring this down to about 50%.
| | 03:06 | So, as you can see, the effects are being
applied to the vector Smart Object, which includes
| | 03:11 | the Bevel & Emboss and the Color Overlay,
but we're still affecting the base Smart Object,
| | 03:16 | which is in turn an Illustrator file
wrapped inside of that Smart Object.
| | 03:19 | So, let's come in and choose OK.
| | 03:21 | Now, you can use the same technique to
bring logos into your file as well, or any other
| | 03:26 | vector artwork that you've created inside of
Illustrator or InDesign to bring this into Photoshop.
| | 03:31 | Now, with our banner created, next we'll look
at that happens when we duplicate Smart Objects.
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2. Duplicating and EditingDuplicating Smart Objects| 00:00 | Now, another great feature of Smart Objects
is if we duplicate them, we don't actually
| | 00:03 | duplicate the amount of data inside of our
file, and every duplication of a Smart Object
| | 00:08 | references the same original Smart Object.
| | 00:10 | So to demonstrate this, I'm
going to zoom out a little bit.
| | 00:14 | Let's go into our main content group.
| | 00:16 | Let's select our runner, and let's
hit Command+J or Ctrl+J to duplicate.
| | 00:19 | Now, we have a copy of that
layer with the Smart Object on it.
| | 00:22 | I'm going to grab the copy and
move it underneath of the original.
| | 00:27 | With this still selected,
let's come up to the Edit menu.
| | 00:30 | Let's come down to Transform > Flip Vertical.
| | 00:33 | Now, with my Move tool, I'm just going to
move the artwork down, I am going to set it
| | 00:39 | up so that her left toe is just touching.
| | 00:43 | Over in the Layers panel, let's select the copy.
| | 00:45 | Let's come down and apply a layer mask.
| | 00:49 | Let's hit the G key to
select the Gradient tool.
| | 00:52 | Make sure you have black on the
foreground and white on the background.
| | 00:56 | With the layer mask selected,
let's come onto the stage.
| | 01:00 | Let's draw a gradient.
| | 01:02 | With the gradient in place,
let's come over to the Layers panel.
| | 01:05 | Let's grab Opacity.
| | 01:07 | Let's drag this down to around 40%.
| | 01:09 | Hit Return. And with those settings in place,
we have a nice reflection against the bottom gradient.
| | 01:16 | So now that we have the runner and reflection in
place, next we'll look at editing Smart Objects.
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| Editing the contents of a Smart Object| 00:00 | Now, to edit the source artwork of the Smart
Object, you can come over to the Layers panel.
| | 00:06 | Let's find the Smart Object on the runner
layer, and then let's simply double-click.
| | 00:10 | If it's the first time we've done this,
Photoshop will bring up a dialog box letting you know
| | 00:13 | that you're going to edit the artwork
inside of the Smart Object. You can click OK.
| | 00:17 | Now, what we'll see here is we have a .psb.
| | 00:20 | This is the oversized Photoshop format, which
is the Photoshop format that's saved inside
| | 00:25 | of the Smart Object.
| | 00:25 | Then I can see the layers intact.
| | 00:27 | So, let's come over here and
let's turn off the Saturation layer.
| | 00:31 | This brings her shirt
back to the original color.
| | 00:33 | Now that we've made a change,
notice that the file has been modified.
| | 00:37 | Let's come up to the File menu.
| | 00:38 | Let's choose Save. And then notice in the background,
the Smart Object gets updated in the background as well.
| | 00:44 | So even though we have the Smart Object
open in the foreground, we can see the original
| | 00:47 | composition and instance of that Smart
Object update in the background as well.
| | 00:51 | Now, both instances were modified--
| | 00:54 | the reflection and the original Smart Object--
but we can't see that because the purple shirt
| | 00:58 | is outside of the reflection area.
| | 01:01 | So to simply demonstrate this, let's come over
to the Layers panel inside of our Smart Object.
| | 01:05 | I'm going to hit Command+I or
Ctrl+I to just inverse the pixels.
| | 01:08 | Hit Command+S or Ctrl+S to save.
| | 01:11 | Just to demonstrate in the background that
we can see the reflection is being modified
| | 01:14 | in addition to the original Smart Object.
| | 01:17 | So every instance of the same Smart Object
gets modified, and this can be a really powerful
| | 01:21 | technique for replicating and updating
multiple sets of artwork inside of your composition.
| | 01:25 | So, in my Smart Object
here, let me just undo that.
| | 01:28 | We'll hit save and then close.
| | 01:31 | Now, back in our original composition, we have our
modified Smart Object in place in both instances.
| | 01:36 | Now, we're ready to make more duplicates to
create the callouts in the main content area.
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| Creating a callout from a duplicated Smart Object| 00:00 | Now, the first main content callout area
we're going to create is going to be for the knee.
| | 00:04 | Let's come over here and make sure we're
inside of the main content area in the Layers panel.
| | 00:08 | Let's come down to the Ellipse tool.
| | 00:11 | Let's come up to the stage, let's click and drag,
and let's click and drag a circle at about 140 pixels.
| | 00:18 | Once we have the ellipse in place,
let's come over here to the runner.
| | 00:21 | To duplicate this, we can hit Command+J or
Ctrl+J like before, or we can hold the Option
| | 00:25 | or Alt key. Click and drag and
this will make a duplicate as well.
| | 00:30 | So now with our duplicate,
let's get the Move tool.
| | 00:33 | Let's move her over into place.
| | 00:35 | We're going to want to highlight the knee area.
| | 00:37 | Let's hit Command+T or Ctrl+T to transform.
| | 00:41 | Let's scale her up a little bit.
| | 00:42 | So we're going to scale her up to about 85%.
| | 00:45 | So we can do this by clicking and dragging,
or we can come up to the toolbar and type
| | 00:50 | in 85 on the Width and
Height. Let's hit Return.
| | 00:56 | Let's grab the Move tool.
| | 00:57 | Let's position her knee
over top of the ellipse.
| | 01:00 | Come over to the Layers panel, Option or
Alt or Command+Option+G or Ctrl+Option+G in
| | 01:06 | Windows to clip group this in.
| | 01:08 | Let's come down and choose the Ellipse.
| | 01:11 | Let's grab the Eyedropper tool.
| | 01:13 | Let's sample the latest yellow
color in our bottom gradient.
| | 01:17 | Let's hit Option+Delete or Alt+Delete to
fill the circle with that color.
| | 01:21 | Now that we have filled the Ellipse with
yellow, let's come down to the Effects panel.
| | 01:24 | Let's come over to Stroke.
| | 01:28 | Let's apply a three-pixel
white stroke. Click OK.
| | 01:33 | Let's come down and activate Drop Shadow.
| | 01:36 | Let's come up to the Opacity.
| | 01:38 | We'll leave this at 75.
| | 01:39 | We'll leave the color at black.
| | 01:42 | Let's come down to the Angle.
| | 01:43 | Let's keep this at 90 degrees. Distance five.
| | 01:47 | Size, let's come down to 14.
| | 01:49 | That will give us a slight shadow around
all four sides showing the white stroke.
| | 01:55 | And then we'll click OK.
| | 01:58 | Back in the Layers panel,
we'll collapse this up.
| | 02:00 | Hold the Command key, select the
Ellipse and the duplicate of the Smart Object.
| | 02:05 | Let's hit Command+G or Ctrl+G,
| | 02:07 | put that into a group, and
we'll name this callout-knee.
| | 02:11 | Now, with these in a group, I can grab the Move
tool and I can move this together as one unit.
| | 02:16 | I'll move these down to the left-hand side and
just overlap the bottom gradient a little bit.
| | 02:21 | So now that we've created a callout for the
knee, next we'll create a callout for the hip.
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| Creating a second callout| 00:00 | Now, the quickest way to create another callout
will be to just simply duplicate this entire group.
| | 00:05 | Let's grab callout-knee.
| | 00:07 | Let's drag and drop it right on top of the
new layer. That will duplicate this entire group.
| | 00:13 | Let's first rename this.
| | 00:14 | This will be callout-hip. Hit Return.
| | 00:18 | Let's toggle that group open.
| | 00:20 | With the group selected,
let's grab the Move tool.
| | 00:23 | Let's just move this up a little bit.
| | 00:26 | First, let's come down to the ellipse.
| | 00:28 | Let's select the Ellipse layer.
Command+T or Ctrl+T to transform.
| | 00:33 | Let's scale this up.
| | 00:35 | We want this to be around
200 pixels. Click Return.
| | 00:42 | Move this around a little bit.
| | 00:44 | Let's come over to the runner.
| | 00:45 | Let's get the Move tool.
| | 00:47 | Let's move this so that her hip
is in place. Command+T or Ctrl+T.
| | 00:51 | Let's just scale this down a little bit.
| | 00:55 | Move this into place and then hit Return.
| | 01:00 | So now that we have our two main
content callout areas created,
| | 01:03 | next, we'll add the dotted callout lines.
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| Adding vector dotted rules| 00:00 | Now, to create the callout lines,
let's come over to Layers panel.
| | 00:03 | Make sure you have both of
the callouts toggled open.
| | 00:06 | Let's select the Runner Smart
Object inside of callout-knee.
| | 00:09 | Let's come over and select the Pen tool.
| | 00:12 | Let's come up and make
sure this is set to Shape.
| | 00:16 | Let's come over to Fill, set the Fill to none.
| | 00:19 | Let's come over to Stroke.
Let's set the Stroke to white.
| | 00:23 | Let's come over to the size, set this to 8
pixels. And for the Style, let's come down
| | 00:29 | and choose the dotted line.
| | 00:33 | Now with those settings, let's come down.
| | 00:34 | Let's click once on the knee.
| | 00:36 | You'll see that we get a shape layer
instantly inside of the callout-knee group. And let's
| | 00:41 | click again over on the knee
from the main runner graphic.
| | 00:44 | So now we have the stroke that goes
from our callout to the main graphic.
| | 00:48 | Next, let's come over to the
shape layer in the Layers panel.
| | 00:50 | Let's come down to Effects.
Let's apply Drop Shadow.
| | 00:54 | What we're going to do inside of here is
we're going to set the Opacity to 100%.
| | 01:00 | Angle is going to be 90.
| | 01:01 | The distance is going to be 0. And the Size,
we're going to set to 8, and then click OK.
| | 01:09 | Now, let's come over to the Layers panel.
| | 01:12 | Let's hold the Option key.
| | 01:15 | Let's drag a copy of that
shape into the callout-hip.
| | 01:18 | Next, come over to the tool panel.
Let's come in and select the Direct Selection tool.
| | 01:25 | Let's grab the end point from the first side,
let's move this up to the hip area, and let's
| | 01:30 | grab the ending point and move this
over to the hip on the main graphic.
| | 01:36 | Let's close up all of the
effects, so we can see the layers.
| | 01:38 | So if I turn on and off callout-knee, you can
see that all of the artwork and the callout
| | 01:43 | line is now contained inside of that one group,
and then callout hip is in this one group here.
| | 01:49 | So let's collapse these down.
| | 01:51 | So now that we have the main content area
complete, next, we'll look out creating Smart
| | 01:56 | Objects out of layers that are
already inside of this composition file.
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| Creating a Smart Object from existing layers| 00:00 | So now, I want to take this
Learn More button here and duplicate it across
| | 00:03 | the other two promos. But I don't
want to duplicate all of the artwork;
| | 00:06 | I want to use the Smart Object so I can make one
modification and change all of them later if I need to.
| | 00:11 | So in the Layers panel,
let's close up the main content area.
| | 00:15 | Let's open up promos.
| | 00:16 | Inside here, we have
promo 1, promo 2, and promo 3.
| | 00:21 | Let's open up promo 1.
| | 00:23 | Inside of here, we have a rounded
rectangle shape and a Learn More text layer.
| | 00:29 | Let's select the Learn More text layer,
hold the Command or Ctrl key, select the second
| | 00:34 | layer. Let's right click and
let's choose Convert to Smart Object.
| | 00:39 | So again, what we're doing here is taking
existing layers in the same composition Photoshop
| | 00:43 | file and just grouping
these in to a Smart Object.
| | 00:47 | Let's just rename this to button learn more.
| | 00:52 | Let's open up promo 2 and promo 3 groups.
| | 00:55 | Let's hold the Option or Alt
key, and let's click and drag.
| | 00:59 | Drag a copy into promo 2. Select the Move tool.
| | 01:03 | Let's move this toward the right.
| | 01:07 | Let's Option+Drag another copy into the promo 3 group,
select the Move tool, and let's move this over as well.
| | 01:15 | And now just as before, if I want to make
a change to our Learn More buttons, let's
| | 01:18 | come over here and double-click any
of the instances in the Layers panel.
| | 01:23 | If I come in here, let's say for example we
want to change Learn More to Click Now, hit
| | 01:33 | Command+S or Ctrl+S to save,
| | 01:35 | notice in the main stage, every one of those
buttons has now been modified to this change.
| | 01:39 | So again, this gives us a really quick way
to take any artwork that's replicated across
| | 01:43 | a design, wrap that into a Smart Object, and
then quickly be able to modify that content.
| | 01:47 | I'm going to undo that, hit Save, and close.
| | 01:51 | Come back to our main stage.
| | 01:52 | Now, at this point, we've completed all of
the main elements of our composition, but what
| | 01:57 | we're going to do next is take the woman
runner and replace her with a male runner and then
| | 02:01 | modify all of the different Smart Objects
and clipping groups, and show you how quickly
| | 02:05 | we can modify the
composition once it's been created.
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| Replacing artwork in a Smart Object| 00:00 | Now, we're going to make a change to our
composition, which would normally be a lot of work; but
| | 00:04 | since we've done all of our composition based on
Smart Objects, this change will be really fast.
| | 00:08 | We're going to change out the
woman runner for a male runner.
| | 00:10 | So, to start, let's come
back to the exercise files.
| | 00:14 | Let's open up the file runner_man.psd.
Now here we have a graphic that's roughly the
| | 00:20 | same size as the female runner.
| | 00:24 | Let's come in here. Let's do Select All, then
choose Edit > Copy. Close the file.
| | 00:31 | Back in our main composition, let's
go inside of the main content group.
| | 00:34 | Now, we can double-click any one of the
instances of the Smart Object called runner.
| | 00:39 | If you double-click this,
this will bring our female runner.
| | 00:45 | Let's hit Command+V or Ctrl+V
to paste in the male runner.
| | 00:47 | Now, another nice thing here is we
can simply turn off these layers--
| | 00:51 | we don't have to delete them--in case we
ever want to go back to the female runner.
| | 00:54 | I do need to make the canvas a little larger
since his foot goes a little bit more to the left.
| | 00:59 | So, Command+Option+C or
Ctrl+Option+C in Windows.
| | 01:03 | Let's set the width to 800 pixels.
| | 01:05 | Set the anchor point to the upper-left, choose
OK, and I will simply close, and save the file.
| | 01:13 | So, I'm back in the main canvas.
| | 01:15 | You'll see all of the instances have been
modified: the main artwork, the reflections
| | 01:19 | and the two callouts.
| | 01:21 | Next, let's come over and select the layer
that's the reflection in the Layers panel.
| | 01:25 | I'll use my arrow key.
| | 01:26 | I'll just move this up a little bit.
| | 01:28 | I do want to make him a little bit
larger, so I'll select the runner layer.
| | 01:32 | Hold the Command key and
select the reflection as well.
| | 01:34 | Command+T or Ctrl+T,
let's transform both of those.
| | 01:38 | Let's just scale him up
a little bit. Hit Return.
| | 01:41 | In my Move tool, I'll just
move him back a little bit.
| | 01:44 | Over in the Layers panel,
let's open up the callout group knee.
| | 01:48 | Let's select the runner
Smart Object inside of there. Type V for the Move tool.
| | 01:53 | I'm just going to use my arrow keys to
move this down into place so that his knee is
| | 01:56 | in the center of that callout.
| | 01:59 | Let's open up callout-hip group,
select the Smart Object inside of there.
| | 02:03 | Let's move this over so
this is pointing at his hip.
| | 02:08 | Let's grab the Shape layer.
| | 02:09 | I am going to hit the A
key to get the Selection tool.
| | 02:14 | Let's grab this line and just point this
right at the hip. And for the knee, let's point
| | 02:19 | this over to the knee.
| | 02:21 | So, as you can see, making use of our Smart
Objects in our composition gives us a really
| | 02:26 | quick way to modify all of our artwork and
make changes to our composition based on design
| | 02:31 | changes or changes we get from our clients.
| | 02:34 | So now that we've completed this part,
next we'll talk about one additional feature of
| | 02:37 | Smart Objects, and that's their ability to
contain animations from the Photoshop Timeline panel.
| | 02:41 |
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3. Combining Animation with SmartObjectsExploring animated Smart Objects| 00:00 | Now, I want to show you the effects of having an
animation inside of a Smart Object inside of Photoshop.
| | 00:04 | So, from the exercise files,
let's open up animated.psd.
| | 00:07 | Now, with this file open, let's come up to
the Window menu and come down and choose Timeline.
| | 00:12 | Now, if you're using Photoshop CS6,
you'll see a Timeline panel just like this.
| | 00:17 | If you're using an earlier version of
Photoshop--any version between Photoshop CS3 Extended
| | 00:22 | and CS5.5 Extended--
you'll have an Animation panel.
| | 00:26 | Now, if you're already familiar with
animating content inside of Photoshop CS6, I put this
| | 00:31 | movie in here so that you can see what
happens when you take an animation and encapsulate
| | 00:35 | that into a Smart Object.
| | 00:37 | If you've never animated anything inside
of Photoshop CS6, I have a video that's part
| | 00:42 | of the Edge Animate Essential Training which
shows you the process for animating elements
| | 00:46 | inside of Photoshop CS6. And if you are using
an earlier version of Photoshop--any version
| | 00:50 | from CS3 to CS5.5 Extended--I also have videos
in the Edge Animate Essential Training showing
| | 00:57 | you how to animate in the earlier
versions of Photoshop as well.
| | 01:00 | And in either case, if you wrap your
animations inside of a Smart Object, you can see what
| | 01:04 | we're about to show here.
| | 01:05 | So, inside of the Timeline panel here,
if I grab the playhead and jog this back and
| | 01:10 | forth, you'll see on the main stage that the animation
actually plays as I jog this Timeline back and forth.
| | 01:16 | If I open up the main content clip however,
you'll notice that there are no animations
| | 01:20 | inside of this main Timeline.
| | 01:21 | Now, to see where the animation is actually
programmed, we can come over here to the Layers panel.
| | 01:27 | Let's come over to main content Smart Object,
let's double-click this, and inside of here
| | 01:32 | you'll see all of the different animated pieces.
| | 01:35 | We're animating Smart
Objects inside of here as well.
| | 01:37 | We have our ellipse and our clipping groups,
and all of the different states of the animation
| | 01:42 | are programmed inside of this Smart Object.
| | 01:44 | Now, what's really interesting here is when
we are inside of the main stage and the Smart
| | 01:50 | Object is placed on the stage, as we jog
the Timeline, we still see the animation, even
| | 01:54 | though, again, the animation
is inside of the Smart Object.
| | 01:57 | This is a technique that people familiar with
After Effects will know as a precomposition,
| | 02:00 | or those familiar with Edge
Animate, as an animated symbol.
| | 02:03 | So, Photoshop can do the exact same technique
with content that's inside of a Smart Object.
| | 02:09 | And with that, that completes using Smart
Objects for Speed and Flexibility, and I really
| | 02:13 | appreciate you watching my course.
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