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Applying nondestructive distortions - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Applying nondestructive distortions
- [Narrator] In this movie, I'll show you how to apply non-destructive four point distortions, which if nothing else, are a whole lot of fun. Now, distortions fall into a special category of transformations inside Photoshop. Notice if I scroll up to the top of the layer's panel, and I click on the text layer and turn it on, we have some text that's set in Adobe Caslon Pro. If that font is not installed on your system, you'll get a font warning, but that's never anything you have to worry about inside Photoshop, as long as you don't intend to edit that text layer. But notice, with the layer selected, I can go to the edit menu and can choose the free transform command. That's totally fine. And I can access most of the commands inside the transform sub menu, including, scale, rotate and so forth, but distort and perspective are dimmed. They're off limits when working with text layers. However, you can apply them all you want to smart objects. And, to see how that works, I'll go ahead and…
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Indestructible envelopes1m 46s
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Three ways to create a smart object4m 51s
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Applying nondestructive transformations7m 14s
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Applying nondestructive distortions6m 21s
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Masking smart objects8m 53s
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Editing the contents of a smart object10m 2s
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Applying editable smart adjustments6m 44s
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Applying and blending smart filters6m 43s
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Editing a filter mask6m 53s
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Applying Camera Raw as a smart filter5m 30s
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Opening a Camera Raw smart object3m 39s
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Two ways to duplicate a smart object5m 45s
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Protecting editable text5m 8s
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Using nested smart objects5m 25s
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Editing text inside a nested smart object3m 12s
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Pasting smart objects from Illustrator6m 3s
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Applying Photoshop effects to Illustrator art4m 29s
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Troubleshooting Illustrator smart objects4m 58s
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