Adobe Photoshop,
a name of complete graphic package, very well known among the
Graphic
designers, web designers or post production artists. It is a tool from
which a person can make extra-ordinary, creative and good looking
design. Now days, this software is very common in the industry and if
you are supposed to be graphic designer then you should have knowledge
of this particular software as well. Photoshop (photo+shop) means
manipulation of photo. In this software you can make photo more
appropriate rather than previous. You can edit, manipulate, re-size and
so many things which you can think. Besides this, Photoshop is very
common software in design industry and therefore, time to time
Photoshop
also upgrading itself too. From Photoshop first version to
Photoshop
CS5.5, there is a huge number of changes, up gradation, modification and
new tools have been implemented. So here, we are going to discuss such a
tool which is called “Smart Object” and going to discuss that how it
works.
From Photoshop CS2, we have a new feature which is called ‘Smart
Object’. Smart Object is a tool by which you can transform, warp, and
re-scale without ruining the original quality of image. For using Smart
object go to Layer-Smart object (alt L+S). For example, if we are
transforming any image into Photoshop without using smart object and
again re-scale it then you see that image lost his original identity,
now the image is a little bit blurry, and when you use this image for
your Design
it stay over the design with their poor quality and may be it bring
down quality in printing too but if you use smart object on it then you
can retain image's originality even after rescaling or transforming.
You cannot use some image correction like brightness/contrast, level,
curve, color balance, hue/saturation etc. directly to a smart object,
because there is difference between ‘smart object’ and ‘normal object’.
For this you have to double click on the object and you see one dialogue
box will appear which means your object will open in another window and
whatever changes you will make, after that you have to save your file.
If you do this, and close that window, you can see that changes are
reflecting in existing file too.
You cannot group while your object is smart object. For this, you have
to resterize your image then you can group your object. Otherwise, It
won’t be possible for you to put your smart object into group. After
converting into resterize layer it is like normal object and now you can
do with it like normal object but Be consider then after this you can’t
use your object like smart object. So it is highly recommendable that
after converting into resterize layer doesn’t change anything in your
object.
From
Photoshop CS3, We have also a new feature like smart object which
is called smart filter. It is also working same as like smart object.
For using this you choose your object/image then go to filter-convert
for smart filter. After applying this, you can add more filter which you
can see in submenu of layer, you can on/off particular filter effect or
if don’t like you can also delete as well without loosing original
image. For example, it is very useful when you are making any template
or special effect.
So, at the end of this article the conclusion is that if you are working
on Photoshop and using these two smart tools then surely it helps you a
lot. But you must be able to work like a professional Web Designer for
that you must take professional training from a good Institute like
Graphic Design Institute (GDI)
which emphasizes on practical cum individual training. Institute is
also providing online classes for Web, Graphics designing, Motion
Graphics and other single application courses.