Importing a Smart Object
Photoshop offers support for Smart Objects, which allows you to import vector objects from Adobe Illustrator and edit them in Photoshop without a loss of quality. Regardless of how often you scale, rotate, skew, or otherwise transform a Smart Object, it retains its sharp, precise edges. In addition, you can edit the original object in Illustrator, and the changes will be reflected in the placed Smart Object in your Photoshop image file. You learned a bit about Smart Objects in Lesson 9. You will explore them more now by placing text created in Illustrator into the toy store poster.Adding the title
We created the toy store name for you in Illustrator. Let's add it to the poster.
| 1. | Make sure the Saucer layer is selected and choose File > Place. Navigate to the Lessons/Lesson10 folder, select the title.ai file, and click Place. Click OK in the Place PDF dialog box that appears.The Retro Toys text is added to the middle of your composition, inside a bounding box with adjustable handles. A new layer, title, appears in the Layers palette. | | 2. | Drag the Retro Toys object to the upper right corner of the poster, and then press Shift and drag a corner to make the text object proportionally largerso that it fills the top portion of the poster, as in the following figure. When you're done, press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS), or click the Commit Transform button ( ) on the tool options bar. When you commit to the transform, the layer thumbnail icon changes to reflect that the title layer is a Smart Object. Because the Retro Toys title is a Smart Object, you can continue to edit its size and shape, if you'd like. Simply select its layer and choose Edit > Free Transform to access the control handles, and drag to adjust them. Or, select the Move tool ( ), and check Show Transform Controls on the tool options bar. Then adjust the handles. |
Finishing up
As a final step, let's clean up the Layers palette by deleting your guide template layers.
| 1. | Make sure that the title, Saucer, Pattern, Retro Shape, and Background layers are the only visible layers in the Layers palette. | | 2. | Choose Delete Hidden Layers from the Layers palette pop-up menu, and then click Yes to confirm the delete action.  | | 3. | Choose File > Save to save your work.Congratulations! You've finished the poster. It should look like the following image (the title text will only be stroked if you complete the Extra Credit task). |
EXTRA CREDIT
 If you have Adobe Illustrator CS or CS2, you can go even further with the Retro Toys text Smart Objectyou can edit it in Illustrator, and it will update automatically in Photoshop. Try this:
| 1. | Double-click the Smart Object thumbnail in the title layer. If an alert dialog box appears, click OK. Illustrator opens and displays the Retro Toys Smart Object in a document window. | | 2. | Using the Direct Selection tool ( ), drag a marquee around the type to select all of the letters. | | 3. | Select the Stroke icon ( ) in the toolbox. | | 4. | Move the mouse over the Color palette (choose Window > Color if the palette isn't already open onscreen). Notice that the cursor changes to an eyedropper. Use the eyedropper to choose black in the Color palette, and then, in the Stroke palette, specify a 0.5-point width.A 0.5-point black stroke appears around the Retro Toys type. | | 5. | Click the Close button to close the Vector Smart Object document, and click Save when prompted. | | 6. | Switch back to Photoshop. The Retro Toys poster image window updates to reflect the stroked type. |
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