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Protecting editable text - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Protecting editable text
- [Narrator] Another great thing about smart objects is they allow you to protect type. So, in other words you can distort the type or filter it, all without having to first convert the type to pixels, as was the case in the old days. And so for example, we're going to take this live editable type and we're going to convert it to this ice type effect, using a smart object along with a couple of filters. And so the first thing you want to do is select the ice type layer here inside the layers panel and then shift click on the snowflakes layer to select it as well and then armed with the rectangular marquee tool, go ahead and right click anywhere inside the image window and choose convert to smart object. And yes, a smart object can contain as many layers as you like. At which point Photoshop takes the text layer and the snowflakes and places it inside of a single smart object. Which means you can go up to the edit menu and choose the free transform command or press control t or command…
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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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