What are Photoshop Smart Layers?

Posted on January 30, 2018February 14, 2018 by Mark

Adobe Photoshop has the ability for you to use ‘Smart Layers’ essentially a Smart Layer will remember the maximum quality of your Adobe Photoshop layer. For example you may place an image in to your Photoshop document and it is A5 size on an A4 canvas, if you reduce the size of this layer down to 25% of its size and commit to the transformation Adobe Photoshop completely forgets all of the information of when the layer was A5 size. So if we make the layer bigger again the layer will become pixelated and very poor quality. Adobe Photoshop Smart Layers can also be layers that have Vector ...

Adobe InDesign – Using Text Wrap

Posted on January 18, 2018January 30, 2018 by Mark

Adobe InDesign – Using Text Wrap When placing images and graphics in to Adobe InDesign you have probably noticed that you get a stacking order, essentially there is something at the top and something at the bottom and all other objects in between. In Adobe InDesign you can control this stacking order very easily by selecting the frames and then right clicking and choosing to send that particular frame to the front or send it to the back and getting all your Adobe InDesign frames in the order that you require. However there may be times when in your Adobe InDesign layout you want the fram...

Adobe Illustrator – Using the symbol sprayer.

Posted on January 10, 2018October 14, 2021 by Mark

The Symbol sprayer in Adobe Illustrator is a great way to repeat instances of your artwork multiple times quickly and efficiently. In this example Im going to use a snowflake vector that I created using the pathfinder but the same technique can be applied to any artwork that you have created in Adobe Illustrator. document.getElementById("thinkific-product-embed") || document.write('');50% OFF WITH CODE 'CSBLOG' To use the symbol sprayer in Adobe Illustrator you need to select a symbol in the symbol panel. Any symbol can be used and if you wish to use your own Illustra...