5 Pro Tips for Photoshop Smart Objects

Smart Objects were introduced in Photoshop CS2 almost 15 years ago and yet they remain one of the most misunderstood and under-utilised features. I hope to change that, so in this video, I’m going to show you the 5 most useful techniques you can achieve by using Smart Objects.
In this Adobe Photoshop 2019 CC tutorial, I will give you 5 Pro Tips for Photoshop Smart Objects so you can use these tricks and tips in your workflow when you are using Smart Objects in Adobe Photoshop CC.
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Table of contents:
0:25 Convert before transformation
3:39 Rotation causes loss of quality
6:25 Use adjustments as Smart Filters
8:19 Keep the pixel mask inside Smart Object
14:30 New Smart Object via Copy

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  • @Sw1nGYT
    @Sw1nGYT4 жыл бұрын

    This is the first time ever where i took my notebook and started writing down the tips! You are a great tutor and these types of tutorials are making my interest alive in photoshop! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

  • @SelvamME
    @SelvamME4 жыл бұрын

    Never know that rotating object getting pixelated when i am working on rasterized layer. You are the True master.

  • @LoganPinney
    @LoganPinney4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Martin! Always great to learn from the best, with techniques and workflow that is non destructive!!!

  • @polinasarafanova2822
    @polinasarafanova28224 ай бұрын

    Bro, this was so useful!!! Thank you so much, this video was just what I was looking for!

  • @Olivia-rg2sf
    @Olivia-rg2sf4 жыл бұрын

    Another awesome and useful video! Thank you so much Martin for sharing your knowledge, blessings

  • @leafiszer3453
    @leafiszer34534 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Always very well explained, very clear!

  • @chrisredlich6546
    @chrisredlich65464 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful. Thanks for this tut - I enjoyed it a lot.

  • @v1lliom
    @v1lliom4 жыл бұрын

    Amazing,Thank you Martin!

  • @martinlennon4673
    @martinlennon467327 күн бұрын

    That was excellent ... Thanks a gazillion 👍

  • @_J.K._
    @_J.K._4 жыл бұрын

    It's very good! Thank you!

  • @hanszorg
    @hanszorg4 жыл бұрын

    Thank You. This turtorial was very helpful. Its like attaining designing nirvana.

  • @kucenglucu
    @kucenglucu3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!

  • @natalyaprychodko856
    @natalyaprychodko8564 жыл бұрын

    The last tip is soooo useful! Thanks!

  • @michaelredbourn
    @michaelredbourn4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. Thank you!

  • @ArturJBCosta
    @ArturJBCosta4 жыл бұрын

    Great, thank you. Thumbs UP!

  • @davidkuria3381
    @davidkuria33814 жыл бұрын

    Very nice tutorial. Been using smart objects for a while now but I still learned so much. Keep up.

  • @majid777854
    @majid7778544 жыл бұрын

    very useful , thanks for your creative ideas

  • @GeorgetaBlanaru
    @GeorgetaBlanaru4 жыл бұрын

    Great! Thank you 🙏

  • @swathshahinmahmud2469
    @swathshahinmahmud24694 жыл бұрын

    Now i kinda get the usage of smart object ! Thanks !

  • @mikelong1458
    @mikelong14583 ай бұрын

    UR my new best amigo!! Muchas gracias!!

  • @elisavetastoilova
    @elisavetastoilova2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!

  • @TechShow90
    @TechShow904 жыл бұрын

    thanks man i love your tuts

  • 4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Martin. I found out the trick with the „via copy“ when I was working with mockups and I didn’t want to have the same content twice. Awesome video!

  • @7ossamy
    @7ossamy2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sooo much!! I was very confused about smart objects before watching this video. Deserve a big thumbs up!

  • @designkaboodle4786
    @designkaboodle4786 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video, I have been using a different graphic editor for many years and just upgraded to photoshop and still learning the different tools that photoshop has this helps allot

  • @Truenergy13
    @Truenergy133 жыл бұрын

    Wow your videos are amazing

  • @ihtishamulhaq7504
    @ihtishamulhaq75044 жыл бұрын

    really nice.. great

  • @4GArt
    @4GArt4 жыл бұрын

    Very good information, keep up the good work!! And Yess I'm also a Designer 😊

  • @JitendraSingh-gp8ry
    @JitendraSingh-gp8ry4 жыл бұрын

    That is quite important for everyone..i like it and shared

  • @Aes0n
    @Aes0n Жыл бұрын

    Great stuff

  • @thearaav6670
    @thearaav66704 жыл бұрын

    This is the great videos.

  • @RonDuckett
    @RonDuckett4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome

  • @Rudy2053
    @Rudy20534 жыл бұрын

    Hi Martin....you make it look so simple, I love it. Am I complicating my life by using the "vanishing point tool" instead ??? Thanks a lot.

  • @thiernoidrissadiallo5728
    @thiernoidrissadiallo57284 жыл бұрын

    waou very good work

  • @Nivenization
    @Nivenization4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @stimo7060
    @stimo7060 Жыл бұрын

    U are a teacher i needed all these time, thank u so much sir

  • @adnanmalik9543
    @adnanmalik95434 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Buddy it is awesome, be smart use smart

  • @preyasprathap
    @preyasprathap4 жыл бұрын

    great video...

  • @AspiringHomes
    @AspiringHomes4 жыл бұрын

    Sir u are amazing 💪

  • @anamulhaque1254
    @anamulhaque12544 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Brother, I'm from Bangladesh

  • @AbdurrahmanJU
    @AbdurrahmanJU9 ай бұрын

    Very nice

  • @tiktech5611
    @tiktech56114 жыл бұрын

    I am searching this exact tutorial only i just found you.Thank you !

  • @YesImaDesigner

    @YesImaDesigner

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you found me 🙌

  • @geojoseph
    @geojoseph3 жыл бұрын

    Why didn't i find your channel all these time..Every second in this video was valuable

  • @faharanoeliahjohnson3619
    @faharanoeliahjohnson36194 жыл бұрын

    Could you make a tutorial how to make a mockup of product, thanks. Thanks for sharing your techniques.

  • @LauraEmpths
    @LauraEmpths4 жыл бұрын

    Im a fan

  • @_J.K._
    @_J.K._4 жыл бұрын

    Waiting for the next tutorial

  • @rajanaveed8936
    @rajanaveed89364 жыл бұрын

    but i am using it since i starts designing :D and I love it even a single change it makes it smart object with action key F3 for shortcut :D

  • @EPHONIC
    @EPHONIC2 жыл бұрын

    Here's one that may stump you! I have an image of a page of a brochure (from an imported PDF to Photoshop). I pasted it into Photoshop and then converted it to a Smart Object. I, then, scaled that down and used Free Transform > Distort to align the page overtop of a mockup image below. Once I was complete, the brochure text appeared sharp and chunky and wasn't clean pixels. I was thinking it was something to do with interpolation or bicubic reduction, etc. but I have tried everything to fix it. Still appears bad. Any clue on why and how to fix?

  • @soudalbuhriy-oman.3478
    @soudalbuhriy-oman.34784 жыл бұрын

    Hi, I'm interested in joining your creative classes, my question is that it can be canceled at any time? Thanks.

  • @SusanneGeert
    @SusanneGeert2 ай бұрын

    Very great tutorial - thanks for taking the time to create this I have a question: How do you replace PART of one image with PART of another image using smart objects? Example: I have two images of a product (candy bag) in a styled setting on a table. The light on the product is better in image B but I want to use image A as my starting point and add image B's candy bag to replace the candy bag in image A. I need to tweak it since the shape is a bit different between the two images. How do I do that? I guess my biggest struggle so far is how to save the image B (or that part of it that is the candy bag) to then be able to place it as a Smart object in image A? Thanks a lot in advance 🫶

  • @robinalcorn5140
    @robinalcorn51404 жыл бұрын

    If you open up the smart object of the rug you can apply a different pattern. When you return to the main file the new pattern will appear with the perspective transformation intact. You can actually create a whole library of rug designs within the smart object while you look for the perfect one.

  • @hardiksolanki4908
    @hardiksolanki49083 жыл бұрын

    Sir please can you make a video on how you manipulate this ordinary photo to an amazing interior ... I'm really surprised after seen the transformation

  • @roanxp
    @roanxp4 жыл бұрын

    I have been using smart objects the wrong way this whole time !! Thank god I clicked on this video.

  • @remymom
    @remymom Жыл бұрын

    I would like to place a logo on a cup...a mockup...would I use photoshop or illustrator?

  • @ptitejeanne
    @ptitejeanne4 жыл бұрын

    Great vidéo I give u my tip to apply free transform tool to vector smart objects Import or paste your Vector in PS and chose the option 'paste as a pixels' Make a smart object with this New layer than édit it and paste the Vector in it as vector Close Now you have a smart object in a smart object You Can apply free transformations with it Sorry for m'y english 😶

  • @user-kn5py7vg8h
    @user-kn5py7vg8h4 жыл бұрын

    Is there alsow quality loss if you rotate something 90 deg.?

  • @YesImaDesigner

    @YesImaDesigner

    4 жыл бұрын

    Migi Kigi very smart question (about Smart Objects 😜) I would think that in case of 90 degrees rotation there won't be any quality loss. Since pixels are square that would make sense.

  • @punishr90
    @punishr903 жыл бұрын

    Interest peeked

  • @japple991
    @japple9914 жыл бұрын

    I have a question I cannot find an answer to. After I create a design I like to make a merged layer of the composition and edit it in camera raw. However, the problem is that if I want to change anything from the original comp, even if the merged layer is a smart object and I can move around the camera raw effect, I still have to make the change, then re merge and apply the camera raw. Is there any way that I can have it so that if I edit the original comp. the stamp/merged layer automatically updates? Thanks

  • @YesImaDesigner

    @YesImaDesigner

    4 жыл бұрын

    Combining your comp into a Smart Object and applying the Camera Raw as Smart Filter is probably the best way of keeping things non-destructive. I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you though, it wasn't clear from your comment. Make sure you save the changes in the smart object source file to see them update in the main comp PSD.

  • @japple991

    @japple991

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@YesImaDesigner This helped! Thanks so much! Love the tutorials!

  • @fightlikabrave
    @fightlikabrave4 жыл бұрын

    When you double click to edit a smart object and it opens in another window, what key/shortcut are you using to close that window and go back to the main window while making sure the changes save?

  • @YesImaDesigner

    @YesImaDesigner

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fightlikabrave there is not a single shortcut for that. I press Cmd+S and then Cmd+W.

  • @franktielemans6624

    @franktielemans6624

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe you can create an action for it and define a shortcut.

  • @joelprince6339
    @joelprince63393 жыл бұрын

    What to do if we forgot to smart object

  • @eartho
    @eartho4 жыл бұрын

    You've made a pretty big mistake at 13:26 by saying that Ps has a good resampling algo when scaling up. This is only true if you've intentionally set the interpolator in the preferences. Unfortunately, the best algo they have, preserve details 2, isn't available for SOs.

  • @eartho
    @eartho4 жыл бұрын

    and another mistake a few later when you say that file size doesn't increase when you duplicate embedded SOs. It most certainly does increase as Ps will duplicate the saved SOs file size for every copy. So if you have a 30MB SO, duplicate it will add another 30MB to your file size.

  • @larrydzemorsky1777
    @larrydzemorsky17774 жыл бұрын

    I remember my first day in job in small company years ago. They got Photoshop CS, I started doing some simply things, but everything looked so ugly, cause i cannot find smart objects. I spent one day for reading manual, then i discovered smart objects invented in Cs3 version XDDD

  • @AmanYadav-fe1tk
    @AmanYadav-fe1tk4 жыл бұрын

    Sir

  • @toonwale3183
    @toonwale31833 жыл бұрын

    i use this for my cartoon channel logo

  • @ahivan
    @ahivan4 жыл бұрын

    Why does it have to be a mask, and why just not delete the white bg of the vase? Sorry, didn’t understand very well

  • @user-kn5py7vg8h
    @user-kn5py7vg8h4 жыл бұрын

    The bottle's background was white... The white background seems quite useless. If you make a good selection you could alsow delete the background

  • @mr.k905
    @mr.k9052 ай бұрын

    Where are smart objets being saved??