From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

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Creating smart objects

Creating smart objects

- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie I want to go over creating Smart Objects. This is, in my opinion, one of the coolest features between working with Illustrator that allows you to create resolution independent illustrations or graphics, because it's vector-based, and also partners up with the flexibility and power of Photoshop to simplify what could be a complex project. So I first learned about Smart Objects back in 2009 when another firm contacted me who was developing an iPhone game and asked me to develop a level of the game, and I was like, yeah, that would be fun, let's go for it, send me your template that I can work from and I'll get started. Well, what they sent me was just one single PSD file and I contact them and I go, I think you forgot an attachment or something. They said, "No, that has everything in it." And I open up the PSD file and my mind was blown. From that point forward it really made me understand the power of using…

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