Change your mind after you press the Enter key? No problem. The germ
is a smart object, so you can always revisit the point where you last left
off. Just choose the Warp command again to redisplay the warp mesh,
with all lines and handles intact. To remove the warp entirely, choose
None from the Warp pop-up menu in the options bar.And there you have it—a compelling, expertly assembled ad-
vertisement. But imagine that the suits representing the soap
company have demanded some crucial changes: They think
that the logo is way too small and the germs aren’t unappealing
enough. (One guy called them “cuddly”!) And the germs can’t
be blue—that’s the logo color. They have to be green. These
eleventh-hour fixes might be cause for alarm for someone who
used a traditional Photoshop composition. But let’s see how
smart objects save the day.- Resize the logo. Go to the Layers panel and click the vector-
based Glistenex Logo layer. Then press Ctrl+T (�-T) to enter
the Free Transform mode and do the following:- In the options bar, change the transformation origin to the
bottom-right corner ( , as in Figure 7-17). - Turn on the icon to lock the proportions and increase the
W value to 65 percent.
- In the options bar, change the transformation origin to the
Figure 7-17.
Figure 7-18.
- Press the Enter or Return key twice to accept your
changes.
Back in the days before smart objects, one
transformation would have been heaped
upon the other, and the quality of the
logo would have suffered considerably.
But thanks to smart objects, Photoshop
references the original Illustrator graphic
and produces a razor-sharp transformation
once again, as witnessed in Figure 7-18. But
impressive as this new efficiency is, we’ve
only begun to reap the benefits of work-
ing with smart objects. Let’s keep reapin’.
232 Lesson 7: Sharpening and Smart Objects