From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - Photoshop (2019)

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Placing assets in a Photoshop document

Placing assets in a Photoshop document - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - Photoshop (2019)

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Placing assets in a Photoshop document

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll look at the benefits of placing assets into a Photoshop document with the smart object feature and compare that to what can happen when you copy and paste from one document to another. So here in our exercise files, we have a cheetah and we also have a snail. And let's say we're supposed to combine them to show the two of them racing. A very simple way to do that would be to just select the entire snail by pressing Command or Control + A, copy it by pressing Command or Control + C, switch over to the cheetah document and press Command or Control + V to paste. And now to size the snail relative to the cheetah, I'll just press Command or Control + T to transform it and drag one of the transformation handles to make it really small. Down to about there is fine. And I'll click the check mark in the options bar to accept the transformation. But then about a week later, say I get an email from my boss saying, "No, "we actually want a huge snail as big as…

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