Hi, this is Anne from Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to tell you how I use
vector Smart Objects in Photoshop.
So I use Illustrator and Photoshop together.
The reason I usually use this is, in web design, it's really easy to manipulate Illustrator
graphics in Photoshop.
So I like to keep them as Smart Objects.
Okay, let's get started.
So I downloaded this free PSD online and there's a link in the comment section below.
So you can get it and practice with it.
And I took a couple of things off of it.
There's a couple spots where there was a logo, so I'm going to show you how to put your own
logo into this template.
So we'll go back to Illustrator or you can CMD Tab to get there.
And I am going to just take my V tool and draw a box around this logo.
And this logo is something I just created.
Obviously, it's not the cutest thing in the world, but it'll do.
So we'll copy this with CMD C. And then we'll go into Photoshop and just paste - CMD V.
And it'll ask you if you want to paste as a Smart Object.
So you can just say 'yes'.
Okay, you want to definitely keep it as a Smart Object.
Don't choose these others.
Say OK.
Okay, I'm just going to grab the handles and resize this to about like that.
And we'll pull this up here.
Okay, so we have our vector Smart Object, and it will say that in your layers, so let's
rename this to Blue Ribbon logo.
I want to show you how you can change some parts of your logo in Illustrator, and they
will update in Photoshop.
That's something that's really awesome about Smart Objects.
Let's try to get rid of this star.
To do that, you can just double-click on this icon here, and it will give you this pop up.
I usually will say 'don't show again' and say OK.
Now it's going to bring it up as a vector Smart Object in Illustrator.
And now you have all of the vector, everything you need to make changes.
So I'm just going to delete this star.
And maybe we'll put a diamond in.
So with my M tool, we'll just do this.
Okay, and now I'll save this and close it, CMD W. And we'll go back to Photoshop.
And you can see that it's updated in there.
This makes it really easy to edit stuff after it's already been placed in Photoshop.
You don't have to go and grab it again from Illustrator or anything.
You can do it right here.
It will take you to Illustrator of course, but that's okay.
Let's say I want another logo.
I want that one to be white down here.
Copy this one.
I'll do OPT and drag, and then I'll get my V tool and pull this one down below.
Okay, this I'm going to CMD T and resize this and hit return.
Let's go back up here and look.
Okay, since I resized this one, it's not going to update to exactly like that.
But if I go in here and change this one, I'm going to double-click.
And I'm going to change this line to, actually both of them, to white.
And I'll Save and Close.
And now go back to Photoshop.
You can see it changed down here.
But it also changed up here.
So you have to be really careful about that.
If you duplicate the Smart Object, every change you make will make changes across the board.
So that is a really good thing if you need to have the same logo update in all different
places on your document.
But it can also be a bad... a bad thing like it is here.
So let's undo this.
I am going to just delete this version.
We'll bring in another one to work on.
I'm going to just make the changes in Illustrator that I want and then bring them into Photoshop
as another vector Smart Object.
So I'll highlight these, change them to white.
I'm going to put a background on here so you can see what's going on.
And we'll make it brown, and I'll go ahead and get rid of this shadow.
I'll make this just a white outline.
Oh, there's some weird stuff going on.
Okay.
And I'm going to get rid of all the fills and stuff in here.
So now I'll copy this and not the background, just the design.
And I'm going to paste that down here as another Smart Object.
Here it comes.
And we'll slide it right down here.
Okay, so now we have our multicolor one on the top and our one color white one on the
bottom.
Even if you duplicate this and name it something different, any changes that you make to it,
it will still update everywhere, even with a different name.
So if you want a different one that looks different like this one here, you need to
copy and paste it in again as a new Smart Object and that way they won't be linked.
I hope this helped you with vector Smart Objects using them in Photoshop.
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