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JSON Basics: What You Need to Know

24 March 2011 / 13 Comments

JSON Basics: What You Need to Know

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:

  • What JSON does
  • The kinds of things JSON is used for
  • How to create JSON strings
  • A simple JSON example
  • How JSON compares to XML, and
  • How to work with JSON using both JavaScript and PHP.

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Working with Smart Objects in Photoshop

14 April 2010 / Leave a Comment

Working with Smart Objects in Photoshop

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:

  • Any number of Photoshop layers, including bitmap, type, shape, adjustment, and fill layers
  • Vector artwork created in Illustrator
  • An imported image file, including JPEGs, TIFFs, Illustrator files, and even PSD files

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:

  • The benefits of Smart Objects
  • Creating Smart Objects
  • Editing Smart Objects
  • Duplicating Smart Objects
  • Converting Smart Objects to regular layers

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