Matt Doyle | Elated Communications
Web and WordPress Development
If you’ve developed websites or web apps at all, you’ve probably heard of JSON, at least in passing. But what exactly is JSON? What can it do, and how do you use it?
In this tutorial you’ll learn the basics of JSON. You’ll look at the following topics:
Let’s get started!
Smart Objects are an often-overlooked, yet handy feature of Photoshop. Introduced in CS2, Smart Objects let you store all kinds of different image content within a single, layer-like object. A Smart Object can store:
In effect, a Smart Object is like having a separate Photoshop or Illustrator document encapsulated in a layer.
Smart Objects sit in the Layers panel just like regular layers. In fact, you can treat a Smart Object much like a bitmap layer — for example, you can move it, resize it, apply layer effects to it, and so on.
When you want to edit the Smart Object’s original content, you just double-click the Smart Object’s thumbnail to open the embedded “document”, make your changes to the document in a separate window, and save. The Smart Object then updates to reflect your edits.
In this tutorial, you’ll look at: