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FIGURe 10.17
Warping with the flag deformation
12.
Save as
Flag-final.psd
. Press Cmd+W to close this file but leave
Design-final.psd
open if you are continuing directly to the next
section.
transforming smart objects
When you convert any number of layers into a smart object, they are placed
into a container, if you will. You can transform this container as one layer.
Transformations are applied to smart object layers in nondestructive (vector)
fashion, so you don't damage image quality with each transformation as you do
with raster layers. As the name suggests, using Smart Objects is the intelligent
way to manage layers through multiple transformations because the sum total
of transformations is applied all at once. In the following steps you will convert
layers into a smart object, place it in another file, and deform the result.
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You can use smart
objects as templates
for creating many
photoshop effects.
1.
Open
Design-final.psd
or continue with the file you created in the
previous section.
Design-final
.psd
is also avail-
able on the topic's
downloads page.
2.
Shift+select the Shape 1 and Rectangle 1 layers. Right-click one of
the layer names and select Convert To Smart Object from the context
menu that appears. Rename the resulting smart object
Design
.
3.
Open
Flag-photo.psd
(see Figure 10.18). Open the Channels panel,
hold down the Cmd key, and click the Alpha 1 thumbnail to load it as
a selection.
