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Editing puppet-warped text

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Editing puppet-warped text

I've saved my progress as Warped letters.psd, found inside the 23_distort folder. Now, you may recall a couple exercises back, I took this live text layer, I placed it inside of a Smart Object, and that allowed me to assign Puppet Warp as a nondestructive editable modification. So, I can come back and make changes all I want. However, that doesn't mean that I'm going to be able to edit my text, and have any success with it. There are pros and cons associated with that, by the way. I'll show you how terribly wrong things can go, and then I'll show you how to exploit that in just a moment. So, let's start things off. If you're working along with me, go to that Jump, Puppet layer, and I want you to double-click on the Smart Object thumbnail. You'll get this warning that's telling you how to work with Smart Objects. Don't worry about that for now. Just go ahead and click OK in order to open your editable type. We'll see, by the way, what that alert message means in detail when we discuss…

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