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Pasting Smart Objects in Photoshop
Using both Photoshop and Illustrator is a common work flow process in many projects. In this small tip, I will show you how you can use Illustrator’s objects, shapes or text as Smart Object in Photoshop and still keep them editable in Illustrator.
In this example, I have created a shape using Star Tool, Pucker and Bloat Effect In Illustrator.
Next, I want to import it into Photoshop, so I select the shape and choose, Edit > Copy (Ctrl+C) to copy the text.
Create a new document in Photoshop and paste the text by choosing, Edit > Paste (Ctrl + V).
In the corresponding dialogue box, select Smart Object radio button and hit OK.
Your text should be pasted as a Smart Object in Photoshop, hit Enter on the num pad or checkmark on the Option Bar to commit it.
Now for some reasons I want to edit the object. For that, just double-click on the Smart Object icon in the Layer Palette. Photoshop will open a dialogue box, hit OK.
The object/shape will automatically open in Illustrator, edit the object or if you have any text or shape do the edit as you want, here I edited it a bit and added a another overlapping shape and also changed the color of the object to red.
After you are satistied with the edit, select File > Save and close the file and voila the changes will be automatically reflected in your Photoshop document.
Using both Photoshop and Illustrator is a common work flow process in many projects. In this small tip, I will show you how you can use Illustrator’s objects, shapes or text as Smart Object in Photoshop and still keep them editable in Illustrator.
In this example, I have created a shape using Star Tool, Pucker and Bloat Effect In Illustrator.
Next, I want to import it into Photoshop, so I select the shape and choose, Edit > Copy (Ctrl+C) to copy the text.
Create a new document in Photoshop and paste the text by choosing, Edit > Paste (Ctrl + V).
In the corresponding dialogue box, select Smart Object radio button and hit OK.
Your text should be pasted as a Smart Object in Photoshop, hit Enter on the num pad or checkmark on the Option Bar to commit it.
Now for some reasons I want to edit the object. For that, just double-click on the Smart Object icon in the Layer Palette. Photoshop will open a dialogue box, hit OK.
The object/shape will automatically open in Illustrator, edit the object or if you have any text or shape do the edit as you want, here I edited it a bit and added a another overlapping shape and also changed the color of the object to red.
After you are satistied with the edit, select File > Save and close the file and voila the changes will be automatically reflected in your Photoshop document.