Friday, May 16, 2008

Link a vector mask to a smart object in Photoshop


I love using smart objects inside Photoshop, but they have always bothered me because I could not link a vector mask with a smart object. I have found a way around this limitation. Put your smart object into a folder and then create a vector mask on the folder, which in turn is a mask on your smart object.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 26, 2008 at 8:38 AM

    Thanks a lot! Great tip, that was bothering me for ages :D

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  2. Johnny5kNovember 18, 2008 at 4:01 PM

    This is good, unless you want to also apply a layer filter to the masked smart object. Adobe just needs to fix this, and no, I don't mean by making me upgrade to CS4. This is a bug and should have been fixed a long long time ago.

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  3. UnknownJanuary 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM

    Oh my this is wikkd.
    thank you

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  4. AnonymousApril 3, 2009 at 1:06 PM

    Thanks so much! However, as ludachris said, there's no way to apply a filter (ex: drop shadow) which is still bugging me! What a dumb bug.

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