From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects
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Layer styles in perspective - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects
Layer styles in perspective
- [Instructor] This image contains three layers. There's this background shot of a billboard, some text I want to add to that billboard, and I've copied these lights from the billboard layer to their own layer in front of the text so it looks better. So how do we put this text onto that billboard? This is live text, and if we use Free Transform to try and distort this, normally we'd be able to hold down Command on a Mac or Control on a PC, and drag each of these handles into place. But it's not working. When we drag this corner handle, we're not getting the distortion we want. But we're shearing the text rather than distorting it. And that's because you cannot distort live text in Photoshop. So let's cancel that. The solution is, first of all, to make the text into a smart object. Now, when we go into Free Transform, we can use the same process. Hold Command on a Mac, Control on a PC, and drag each of these handles to their correct position. And because it's a smart object, we're able…
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