From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects

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Preparing the ground

Preparing the ground

- [Instructor] We're going to look at how we can make an advertisement look as if it belongs inside this magazine, with the ability, of course, to swap out the contents for any other ad later. Here's the plan that I've prepared, this photograph, a woman looking at a magazine. I've added as a new layer a page from the magazine. It's a blank page that exactly matches the space of the original, and you can see I've added little shading on here, both in the fold and under the thumb, which will just make the whole thing look that much more realistic. In this file, magazine.psd, we've got all the elements for our advertisement. We'll start by selecting all these layers, and the easiest way to do that is to click on the bottom one, hold the shift key, and click on the top one. Now that they're all selected, we can pick them up and simply drag them from this document into this one. When we release the mouse button, there they are. So they're all here as separate layers. While they're still…

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