Vector smart objects & Photoshop's linked files

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Vectors Smart Objects are vector elements that we've imported maybe from Adobe Illustrator, or from any other vector design application, or maybe vector design elements downloaded from the internet, maybe from a website like free Beck, or even Victor clip art that we can be downloading from Adobe's Creative Cloud. And in this example, it's our logo in here. And also these circles within our design the art designed by Adobe Illustrator. And what's really amazing about these vector design elements that they are smart objects by default, we don't have to convert them into Smart Objects. And ultra z can be scaled to any size without losing quality or resolution. So here for instance, we have our zoom level at 100%.

And let's select our vector smart object or logo. Then let's enlarge our logo pressing Command or Ctrl T to Transform all the way to here. And as you can see, it looks very crisp and clear. And that's mainly because it's a vector Smart Object. And also in order to customize our vector smart object to can be anything that one in original file in Adobe Illustrator, or we can be double clicking on our layer in that area to access our layer style and we can be adding different styles to our element. So for instance, we can be adding a drop shadow, or maybe better than overlay or gradient overlay, or color overlay, which can be a very convenient way to change our vectors color within Adobe Photoshop.

Of course, we can be changing color blend mode, or even opacity and so on. However, for maximum control over or vector element two can be editing that one was in Adobe Illustrator So let's press Cancel. Then we're going to be clicking on our thumbnail instead of that area we're going to be clicking in here to accept that one in Adobe Illustrator. Now we have Adobe Illustrator open for us. We can be customizing either colors, composition or anything within our logo even typographic our Let's go, for instance, for color for these dots. What are we selecting them was direct selection tool.

In Adobe Illustrator using the arrow, you have the application installed on your PC can be doing customizations, very easy using Adobe Illustrator. We have that full color in orange, I'm going to be selecting maybe that color then in order to have these changes applied in other fields, so we need to be saving that so pressing Command or Ctrl S. Now it's telling us that this file has been modified outside illustrator Do you want to continue and yes, we need to apply That. Now let's go back to Photoshop apply to our vector Smart Object. And here's also another way to edit our vector Smart Object without going to illustrator, we can be as choosing our layer, right clicking our layer, and we'll find rasterize layer. This will be converting our vector element to roster element, which will be reducing our Photoshop speeds the files size, because using vector smart objects will be enlarging our PSD file, and then because they are embedded within our file, those vector elements, however, also we'll be losing our images quality if we try to scale that one above 100%.

So now let's do that. For example, I'm going to be rasterizing that layer. Now we have that one as raster file, transforming that one to maybe 25% or so. Now if we try to enlarge that one, once again, what are we losing it's quality as you know, so we need to make sure before we destroy any vector elements that we're not going to be enlarging that one anytime soon in the future. Or instead of embedding these vector Smart Objects, we can be linking them to Adobe Photoshop. So instead of having our vector Smart Objects embedded within our file, we can be linking them through a completely different file on our PC to our file.

In order to see that in action, let's undo that first what we did to our loop. And now let's say we need to link another vector element to our file, go to file. And by the way, this feature is only included in Adobe Creative Cloud versions. And it's mainly to reduce file size and also who made any changes to your logo or any design elements these days. changes will be applied globally on all your design files. So let's maybe say that you have the same exact logo within a poster and a flyer and so on.

If you made any changes to that logos, these files will be updated accordingly. What we have already within our files is called please embed it so that one is placed embedded. So actually, we'll be selecting place link instead of Place Embedded because we're going to be linking that vector file to our Photoshop file. However, embedded means that this file will be existing within our file. So I'm going to be placing a link we have that big sell media logo file placing that logo is in our file, and any changes I make to that file it will be applied within our Photoshop file that we are working on. Now clicking place, of course, you can be linking a page image or even 3d file.

However, in that case, we're going to be selecting beach We have only one artboard within our Illustrator file. And we're going to keep that one as it is, bounding box. changing our thumbnail size to see better review for our file, like that. pressing OK, now we have our vector Smart Object, adjusting its size a bit. And now we'll be seeing that link icon on our layer, which means it's a linked Smart Object. Now let's also link that logo to another file so we can see the difference between linked files and embedded files.

Here we have a lot file in here. And we're going to be linking the same exact logo to find place links selecting our logo place pressing OK then Let's resize or local file and move it maybe to that area so you can see better. However, now let's change our types color into white. So can be double clicking our thumbnail to edit our file in Adobe Illustrator as well as selecting the Direct Selection tool, selecting our type, giving that one a white color from our swatches. Now in order to see these changes applied within our Photoshop spines, we need to be saving that however before we do that, we need to go back to Photoshop. Now I'm going to be closing that file but before I close that one, I'm going to be saving that one as a copy from our original files, so let's save as I'm going to call it m one as like modification one.

Save okay Now I'm going to be closing that file. Now back to illustrator to save our white type update, pressing Command or Ctrl S. Now it's saved. Let's go back to Photoshop. Now we have white pipe in here. So let me move that clue. Now we can see is a toy toy better in darker background.

And let's reopen that file that we've just saved in alpha, as in one go to file. Open recent Berman's and one. Now we don't have our time updated to white, and that's because that file was closed while we save these changes in Adobe Illustrator. And we'll we'll be seeing that more on our layer means we have updates for our linked files we need to apply them and also going to be seeing the same mark on our Smart Objects filter, which we can be filtering or smart layers within our Layers panel. So If we click that one, now you can see all smart objects and layers within our layers button. And we still have that more.

Now in order to update our linked file can be right clicking on our layer in that area. Selecting update modified content. Now we have our wide type of Lloyd was in our file. However, now we need to keep our link file was in the same location on RBC or even we can be creating a package out of our Photoshop file. And it's so easy to create a package for our file. And the same option is also existing in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign.

And it was mainly existing in InDesign before however now Adobe has applied the same option within Illustrator and Photoshop as well. So you can be creating a folder out of your design file, including all your images, files or links, or even your fonts all can be existing in in one folder, so you can preserve your links and keep your design file intact. So let's go to our previous file in here. And let's say we need to create a package for that file. What are we going to file, we have backage option. Let's call it MST, for example, clicking creates choose.

Now let's go and check that folder. Here we have our folder, and we have our baggage folder created by Adobe Photoshop. Opening that one, we have our PSD file and also we have links including our logo file. So now we don't have to worry about moving or folders or even sharing them with others, maybe designers or clients. Whoa, that was an easy one for you guys. And if you already know about Adobe Photoshop, that saves you so much time using it.

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