Using template mockups with smart objects Photoshop

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15 lessons / 1 hours

Overview

This course is for designers & marketers who already understand the fundamentals of Photoshop but believe there is a more effective, faster way to work. Work through a multi format creative campaign and learn techniques which will ensure hyper-efficiency & consistency.  

Join Adobe certified instructor Daniel Scott to learn:
 • How to maintain a consistent look across social media, print and web touchpoints.
 • Fast and efficient selection & masking techniques.
 • Practical retouching techniques and time saver shortcuts using Photoshop.
 • Workflow hacks for nondestructive design using artboards, Smart Objects & libraries.
 • The many new Photoshop 2020 features   
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Alright. In this video we're going to use a mixture of a template  that's been laid out with smart objects. Okay? So we update the smart object  and we update one little thing. Watch the logos, look all the logos updated all at once. Hey, saving us time.

I'm trying to think of anything else that saves us. Nope, just time, not, not money, okay? But it's a quick and easy way to kind of do your own mockups  and use smart objects so  that you can redo it again next time easily. Or I'm gonna show you in this one where to get some  of these templates that are ready to go. That will save you time, but no money. Alright?

It's our final video in this series. Uh, I hope you enjoy. Alright, to get started, go to File Open  and there's one called Mockup PSD in your exercise files. It looks like this. Okay? Now the cool thing about the templates, I'll show you where  to get them from, but this one's been created where  that logo is a smart object.

It could be a cloud, um, library object. Okay? We've used smart objects in this case  'cause you don't have my, uh, connection, my library,  but they work the same sort of way. Remember our latte earlier when we updated  one of them, they all updated. There are lots of templates out there ready to go like this. So let's start with the image.

Let's double click the actual icon, not the image name. Okay? So click in here, the little thumbnail,  it opens up in another um, tab, okay? And what we're gonna do is we're gonna go back  to my library of core productivity. I'm gonna grab my tea, I'm gonna drag it out, okay? And I'm gonna make it nice  and big, not holding shift, just make it big.

One trick, trick ish is if you have it, kind of  where you want it, hold on. The option key, okay? On a Mac alt, key on a pc, that's it. And it just drags from the center. It kind of goes out both ways anyway,  get it somewhere in there. That's what I'm gonna do.

Hit enter on my  keyboard, hit save. I'm gonna hit close. And you can see  that smart object was used a couple of times. Okay? Like the latte. So you can see  how you can do some really cool stuff.

When you update one thing,  it updates across a couple gets even better with a logo. Open that up by double clicking it. Eventually it's gonna open up an illustrator. Yours is probably still open from earlier. Mine's not. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab this logo,  delete it, grab my new, kind of like logo slate.

Stick it in the middle here. Okay? Hit save. Go back to Photoshop. You ready? City.

It's the finale for the course as well. I should have mentioned that. It's gonna end soon. You ready? Hey, look at that. If you are ever working somewhere where you've got  to do things like this, mock things up, spend the time,  do it once with smart objects  or library objects, bend them around.

You can twist them, you can scale them, you can color them. And then when all you need to do is update that smart object  and they all update at once. Now you can see the benefits of using these kind  of smart objects and or library items  and updating 'em all at once kind of to use them in mockups. Now what I'd like to show you is where to get them from. So, uh, lots of places supply them. Probably the best is, uh, Adobe's own one.

Okay? So up here in the libraries panel,  there is an option to say,  Uh, drop this down. See there's a little Chevron here. I can say you search in  Adobe stock, okay? And up here I can do a search. I can say, let's look at, I don't know, let's look at  stationary  mockup, see what comes up.

You can see all of this good stuff. Okay? Now you need a subscription to be part of this. Okay? I pay, what do I pay? About $40.

It goes down to like $5, I think's a minimum per month. And this is Australian dollars. So I dunno what that's in us. It's probably not quite half. Uh, nah. Uh, so, um,  you can see here loads of good stuff.

I like to use the website probably better. Um, so let's have a look. See stock adobe.com. You can say switch to templates  and you can say, um, packaging. Packaging. Let's say you wanna mock up.

Ooh, spell badly. Got me there. Okay, so you can see in here. Say you want, say this one here. All of these little icons here will be smart objects. Okay?

And you'll have to update one of them  and it'll update across all of them. Super cool. Just make sure you're using templates, okay? And have a little read through, uh, what it explains,  this one here, some French. Um, so loads of cool stuff just to save you time. Like I've done it loads of times where it's like, actually,  do I really want to spend ages, like mocking something up  that's just a quick like demo for the client.

Okay? There's web stuff and doesn't need to be packaging. But yeah, those templates, uh,  you can use, you can make your own. But yeah, I'll see you in the next video.
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