Perspective transform for Smart object.

Hello!
I working on the Photoshop with Smart Object with link to Illustrator. How can i transform perspective for Smart Object in Photoshop? There are accessible to me only Scale Rotate and Skew, others is gray out.
Thanks all!

That's a special type of SO you've got: Vector SO. Right-click it in Layers panel and pick Convert to Smart Object. That'll put the VSO inside a SO which you can transform with perspective.

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Perspective effect with Smart Objects (SO)

Hi,
i would like to create a perspective efect on smart objects.everything i read so far was that perspective effect doesn't work (distort) on SO.
everybody place the SO almost as they want but to create the perspective effect, they rasterize layer and finish perspective effect using the Free Transform tool.
1. so is it really the only one way to do it ?
I mean i have a lot of business cards design and i have a master design for their presentation... in this presentation i can change just 1 SO (the master one) and all other SO (representing business cards) are automatically updated...
so it is really great for creating a new presentation of product. owever, if i must rasterize SO i loose this feature/possibility.
2. So what is the best solution ?
thx.

Hi Conroy,
at work we have CS6. I tried all kind of File > Preferences > General > Image interpolation, but nevetherless still the same issue. The bicubic is the best one for card border/edge but they are still to "stairs steps" and not clean line for borders.
Here is my work.
A) The top card is former verctor SO, rasterized and once again convert to SO (for later applying effects/filters)
B) The bottom card is a standard Vector SO with content from a vector tool.
there are 2 main issues.
1. the perspective for the card B (vector) is not as perfect as for card A, as if you move individually a corner, other corners move also
how to solve it in order to not have a destructive one ? i mean if i have on 1 artwork 3 visible business cards, i don't want to replace content 3 times + filters, etc.. i would like to maximum replace 3 contents and that's all... imagine if i have 100 business cards ready for that...i will spend months to recreate each perspective and effects.
2. the 2nd issue is with card edges/borders...they are not anti-aliased at all..maybe the top one (card A) is more than the vector SO as it has been rasterized...but nevertheless it is far from what i see on internet for same work.
so what did i miss ? where is my mistake ?
thx.

Hello, i'm creating a very simple animation in ps cs5, but when I try to transform a smart object in a frame, all the frames are affected by it. What can I do ? Thanks, Ep

Hello, i'm creating a very simple animation in ps cs5, but when I try to transform a smart object in a frame, all the frames are affected by it. What can I do ? Thanks, Ep

Ok, you are in frame animation mode. I thought cs5 had a timeline mode, but now I think I was wrong.
In frame animation mode what you do is in one frame you have the object rotated in one position, then select an other frame and rotate it. If it rotates the first frame, which I think it will. Create duplicate of the object in a new layer. Then rotate the second layer.
At this point in my example you would have two layers, one of which has a rotated object.
Clear the frames
Convert the two layers to frames.
You now have two frames, one for each layer.
Select both frames then click the tween button.
This will create the in between frames.
In the tween dialog box the higher the number of frames set here, will create a smoother animation but will result in a longer time frame for the animation to play.
Because Photoshop has no way of knowing which way the object should rotate, it is feasible for it to rotate the opposite direction or could look wonky. Just undo and add an in between layer showing how it should look in the middle, then continue on.
So your layers should be the following, a frame that shows all objects in their rest state.
All objects that remain in a rest state must be copied to the next layer (ctrl-j on Windows or cmd-j on Mac)
All subsequent layers are then used for rotating a duplicate of the object. (Ctrl j or cmd j)
You will find the commands to clear the frames, convert layers to frames and tweeting in the hidden menu found when you click the small icon in the upper right hand corner of the animation panel.

Link Smart-Object Filter mask to transformation of Smart object

Often it would be very nice, if you could link the filtermask of a smart object to the smart object itself. So that when you transform the SM (rotate, scale etc) the filtermask of the smartfilter is transformed, too.

It would seem if a linked layer mask can be transformed with the smart object the filter mask could be linked as well.
I didn't mean the workaround to be vote against the request. But it does have an added benefit. When you transform a smart object with almost any smart filter the appearance of the filter changes. Blurs become more or less blurred depending on the transform. Same with sharpen. If you want the effect of the filter to appear the same after the transform you need to embed it into a new smart object.

Transforming a Smart Object Layer

Plain ordinary photograph..... Start with a background layer. Add a layer for doing non-destructive cloning. Add a couple layers for adjusting curves and hue/saturation.
Then do a merge visible to create a new layer from all the underlying layers and still keep all the underlying layers.
Convert this layer to a smart object and apply Smart Sharpening.
All the above works fine.........................
Now I want to do a transform - free, scaling, whatever..... I can select the marged layer but all the transforms are grayed out.
How do I do a transform on a smart object layer?

Hi Noel. Your questions are valid... This isn't my normal post-processing.
NORMALLY, I have a couple layers for dodging and burning, probably something for other fiddling, my normal adjustment layers for curves and hue/saturation, then a "stamp visible". Depending on whether or not I wind up converting to b&w I may have a couple other layers for that.... Then I save the psd, and afterward crop and sharpen as needed. Generally,
my sharpening is to use the Smart Sharpen on my merged layer, OR to duplicate thelayer and do a high-pass sharpening.
Recently, I've seen two presentations by well-regarded Photoshop experts extolling the virtues of doing as much as possible in non-destructive ways. For sharpening, as I understand it, this means either opening the original image as a smart object, or converting to a smart object prior to sharpening. SO, I've been trying this on some images, just to see if there are some real advantages, or if it's just a big pain-in-the-neck way to do something that's pretty standard.... Frankly, I"m still not sure.
In THIS particular case, I had an image that had been edited, and the sharpening applied through the smart filter PRIOR to cropping. My wife requested a non-standard resizing, not a crop, that meant using a transform to change the aspect ratio of the image. That's when I found that the transforms wouldn't work on my smart object..
Unfortunately, as it turns out, I was right - it was an error on my part. I SELECTED part of the image on the layer with the marque tool... Had i NOT done the selection, the transform would have worked fine.....
So, the bottom line is yes, I agree that it's easy to get caught up in trying to make everything non-destructive and flexible, but sometimes it's more trouble than it's worth.

Original filename for Smart Objects in CS6

After processing a camera raw image in ACR, I want to open the image in CS6 as a Smart Object.
Then I want to run a java script that depends on the original filename. Where in the metadata can I find the original filename?
Background: I have a script that executes very well if the file is opened in CS6 as a regular layer. However, when I open a file as a Smart Object, the script fails, complaining about an invalid filename.
The problem is associated with my favorite time-saving script and I am very keen to resolve the problem.   :-(
Thank you for your assistance.
BA

rj acton wrote:
After processing a camera raw image in ACR, I want to open the image in CS6 as a Smart Object.
Then I want to run a java script that depends on the original filename. Where in the metadata can I find the original filename?
Background: I have a script that executes very well if the file is opened in CS6 as a regular layer. However, when I open a file as a Smart Object, the script fails, complaining about an invalid filename.
I think the the only reason it works when you open them as a regular layer is because of your work-flow and habits. Try opening it twice as a normal layer an see if it works.
When you open a RAW file through ACR as a normal layer and as a smart object layer there is no backing file associated with the open document yet.   I feel you problem is you script is using something like the document name.   If you look at the title in the image floating window or tab you will see that Photoshop has assigned a name the first time you open it as a normal layer you will see something like filename.cr2 @ 25% (RGB16) the second time you will see filename-2 @ 25% (RGB16) when you open as Object you will see filename as smart object-1 (filename, RGB16). These title will change when you save the document to a image file type the title will change to the associated backing file you just saved.
I you look at Photoshop File info you can see all the image metadata and you can find the RAWFileName you want here a text file I wrote using a Photoshop script
It is enev in small jpef file saved from raw conversions if you don't strip mete data
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Identifying all TR/UR/Transformations for LOOKUP Object in whole BW System

Hi ,
I have one ODS object ZTEST in BW system. This ODS object is used in many other data flow's Transfer Rules, Update Rules and Transformations as LookUp object like
SELECT * FROM /BIC/AZTEST00 INTO ITAB WHERE DELIVERY = DATA_PACKAGE-DELIVERY
Now how can i findout all the Transfer Rules, Update Rules and Transformations where this ODS object ZTEST is used as the Lookup object in all BW system .
Please let me know the step by step procedure for it .
Regards
Mubeen

Mubeen,
This is kind of hard to do.
One thing that can possibly alleviate your effort would be to look for
/BIC/AZTEST00 in the table RSAABAP.
But this is not a complete output and you will still have to trace back the generated programs to the original TR / UR etc... but thien - this might give you a start.
P.S We tried this in a previous project but gave up because :
1. We could not trace the original transformations effectively
2. The output of RSAABAP is not a complete list - but it gave us an idea..

Photoshop CS6 (mac) - Why is Liquify disabled for smart object?

I've sent over an image from LR5 into PS CS6 as a smart object.
I'm wanting to run the liquify filter, but it isn't open to me as an option. Can someone give me some ideas on what the problem is here?
I checked with Help on PS..and it says my copy is up to date and no new updates available.
I thought CS6 would work liquify on smart objects as a smart filter.
I'm a bit of a noob here, so I may have something set wrong, so, please be patient talk slowly when using big words with me.
Thank you in advance,
chilecayenne

john worthington wrote:
Liquify Smart Object support was added in a update/dot release to CS6. I don't remember which one. Also we are currently investigating a possible bug where Liquify Smart Objects from older Photoshop psd files may not be recognized correctly in the latest version of Photoshop.
Can you find out for sure on which version? Seems strange, that CS6, no matter where it came from, wouldn't be sync'ed as far as version. I understand features coming out for PHotoshop CC, that would go forward and not be in CS6, but it seems that CS6 should be CS6 and be sync'd for features and version numbers no matter where you got it from.
If you got CS6 from CC....and you quit CC....does that version of CS6 quit functioning or does it work still going forward if you stop paying the CC monthly rent?
Thanks in advance,
C

How do I open as smart object whilst retaining the images original scale? (for architectural drawings)

A simple question I know but I cannot seem to import the vector file at its original scale into photoshop. I am aware that you can transform the smart object once imported to photoshop but im sure there is an easier way for the accuracy required with architectural drawing scales.
Any help would be much appreciated to save me a little time.
Thanks

Thanks for your responses.
Despite setting the canvas size and dpi in vector works, open as smart object function opens the vector file on a separate sheet in photoshop and therefore defaults to an incorrect size for some reason. The solution was in fact far more simple, drag and drop directly on to the preset photoshop file rather than using the open as function. This made me feel rather silly, but at least the problem is resolved!
Another problem I have come across though is the issue of line weights. When printing directly from Vectorworks the lines are far crisper than the photoshop version despite using smart objects which is supposed to retain the vector lines? Would you know of any reason for this?
Thanks again for your help.
Amy

Ps CS6 Problem: Transform applied to Smart Object cannot be repeated on another target

Ps CS6
OS X 10.6.8
Problem: Transform applied to Smart Object cannot be repeated on another target.
"Edit > Transform > Again" fails to transform any target after a Transform is applied to a Smart Object. The following message appears:

When ever I have a problem in CS6 and I have many I always test priot releases like cs2 cs3 cs5. I nevet nitice before you posted this problem the Photoshop has different favlors of Free Transform and that free transform for CS6 has been modified. Adobe seems to be introducind new improvement matche with new bugs,
Investgating your bug using CS5 I see the following. There are two types of free transform one type seems to be for smart Object layers and the other for other layer types. In CS5 you should see a difference in the Option bar for Free transform.
The option bar for layers other then smart object looklike this:
Transform 9 anchor point icons X: field Relative icon Y: filed W: % Constrain icon H: % Angle ° H: ° V: °
The Option Bar for Smart Object layers look like this:
Transform 9 anchor point icons X: field Relative icon Y: filed W: % Constrain icon H: % Angle ° Check Box Anti Alias (grayed out)
If I use the one for other then smart object layers Transform Again is not gratey out and I can use Transform Again on layers even smart object layers However the anchor point seems to be relative always to the first transformed layer's anchor point
If I use free transform on the smart Object Layer and not have done any transform on a other then smart object layer in this Photoshop session not even in an other document the smart object layer will be tramsformed and Transform again menu item will be grayed out. If any had done a Transform on an layer other then smart object layer even in an other document Transform Again would not be grayed out and could be used on the smart object layer at hand. The transform would not be the one just done on the smart object layer rather it be the one done to the other then smart object layer. Seems a bit bazzar to me. This may be how CS6 is also working.
CS6 also added interpolation method to the other then Smart object layer transform and not the one for smart object layers. To be consuitant Adobe should have also put interpolation into the omart opject transform for Adobe transforms smart opject layer by first rendering the pixels for the smart opject then transforms them like a raster layer. Adobe did manage to record the interpolation use into an action step. However I do not know if the made it into Scripting it did not make it into the photoshop javascript user guide. I will test the scriptlistener plugin to see if it records it for the action manager....
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I have now tested the Scriptlistner Plugin it does record the interpolation for transform normal layers. Still the layer resize method in the Photoshop Javascript user guide has not been change for that support. In the past what I have done is scripting was to save the users default interpolation Photoshop prenerenvr changed the preference to what I wanted to use do the layer transform resize then restored the users interpolation preferance. Adobe broke that in CS6 if the users defalt preference is what Adobe's defalt is "Bicubic Automatic" an internal Photoshop error occurs. Adobe did not add "Bicubic Autoimatic" to scripting when I try to save the preference scriping has the internal error. There is also no way to set the preference back to "Bicubic Automatic. I'm also transform smart object layers so I would still have to use the save preference, change preference, transform, restore preferance method. This works if the users preference is set to some preference other the "Bicubic Automatic"
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So to me it look like CS5 and CS6 transform work basiclly the same. There seems to have been some behavior changes made to CS6 I can not seem to put my finger on as well as the addition of the interpolation method in the option bar. I can't put my finger on it so it may be the same in CS5 and CS6.
It may have to do with the bazar behavior of Free Transform and Transform Again not being available on smart object layers if no free transform to a normal layer has been done in this Photoshop session but are available if one was done in any doument. And thet you can start to do a transform on the smart object layer and see the Transform handle but then start using transform Again shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T and watch the old transform being done perhaps rotating some virtual anchor point and not around the acnchor point bing displayed in the Transform bounding box and control points.
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Over in the Adobe Feedback site several issues were posted with CS6 Transform one was marked "Not a problem" by Adobe. One was marked "Solved" by Adobe and the others have no Adobe markings the may on not be a problem
So I beleive there is a bug but I do not think it originated in CS6 the bazar things I see happing also seem to be in CS5.

"Anti-alias" greyed out when free-transforming smart objects.

While resizing smart objects, I noticed that the anti-aliasing was very contrasting and not smooth enough for my purposes. I realized that if I rasterized the smart object before resizing, the anti-aliasing was better. I then noticed that there was a setting when free-transforming smart objects called "anti-alias." However, I am unable to activate it as it is greyed out. So, here's two questions:
1) Is there a way to make the anti-aliasing for smart objects the same as that of rasterized objects?
2) Is there a way to activate that "anti-alias" setting when free-transforming smart objects?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide

On top of what Zeno Bokor wrote that while your doing the transform your viewing a quick scaled preview not the actual transformation you wrote
The SOs I'm talking about are bitmap images I made into SOs to be able to resize and edit without destructive changes, not imported vector graphics from AI.
You did not state how you made the bitmap images into smart object. If you just converted a layer you had been working on into a smart object some damage may have already been done to the bitmap image. You might get better results if you started out with a smart object layer to begin with by using ACR open as smart object option or by placing your camera jpeg images into your document as starting points.

Vector smart objects still looking for older version of Illustrator

When we try to open smart objects from withing Photoshop CC, they're looking for Illustrator CS6. On machines where Illustrator CS6 is uninstalled we get errors. All the file associations in Bridge are correctly set. Is there a way to change the file associations for smart objects?
Thanks,
-Onur

Editing smart objectrs uses the system wide associations, not the ones from Bridge, so you need to adjust that for the *.ai file type.
Mylenium

Does Extract for PSD support smart objects?

I have spent some time exploring Extract for PSD and so far it it fantastic. I can really see this being useful when passing on my PSDs to my developers.
One feature that I would love to see would be support for smart objects. I use smart objects a ton in my web designs. For example when I create the footer I will make it a smart object so that it stays consistent throughout all my layer comps. currently in Extract for PSD all smart objects seem to be flattened. It would be great if my devs could click into the smart objects and access the content within.

You are right that we don't expose this right now. We do have plans to do this in the future soon!

Photoshop CS4 smart object template just overwrote a raw file - HELP

So. I've been working in Photoshop extensively for about 6 years now and I am well aware that nothing we do in Photoshop or Lightroom is supposed to overwrite a raw file. I'm not talking about changing it to something a little lighter or darker, I'm talking about replacing a picture of one baseball player with another one - and the original? Gone.
Here's what happened: I have a poster template that contains several layers, 7 of which are smart objects. I change the pictures in the template by right-clicking the smart object layer and selecting "replace smart object," browsing to the new image, selecting, and here is what SHOULD happen: the target picture opens in Adobe camera raw, I make some small edits, click done or okay or something similar, and that new image has replaced the old one in the template. What DID happen was this: I followed the procedure above and selected my target raw file, the picture that was already in the template (the one I was trying to replace with my target file) opened in Adobe camera raw. I thought - Hey, that's wierd! Closed the ACR dialog and tried again. Same thing happened. I opened lightroom and saw - to my HORROR - that the target file had been changed to the same image that was in the template.
If it clarifies: pictures of player A (who played in 2009) is in all of the smart object layers in my template. I want to make that poster be of player B (who played in 2012) so I begin replacing all the smart objects. When I get to the 3rd image in the poster template, Photoshop overwrites my raw file of player B with the smart object photo of Player A. There were no photos of player A on the network drive that the picture of Player B was on. But there's one now. My raw file shows that it was modified about 10 minutes ago.
We tried undoing in Photoshop. That did nothing. We tried deleting the xmp file. That did nothing. We removed it from the lightroom catalog and reimported it. It is now a picture of Player A from 2009 and my picture of Player B from 2012 is just gone.
Anybody have any idea what this could be and how we could avoid it in the future?
Best,
Jamey

mojoimagery wrote:
Now - JJ - when you say "overlay files" - what do you mean? Because that feels like a good description for what happened.
We performed no save operation at any point during the sequence of events that ended with the image in one raw file being replaced by the image in the smart object.
As I wrote Smart Object layers embedded object is a copy of the original and if you replace it you replace it with a copy of some other object. Embedded object are copies and independent from the original. If after creating a smart Object layer who's embedded object is a copy of a raw file and its conversion settings. You change the original RAW files RAW conversion settings the smart object layer raw conversion setting are not changes for its a copy with independent raw conversion settings. When you replace a smart object layers contents you will replace the embedded object and you should replace it with an object the has the same pixel size and orientation. Because there is an associated transform for the object in the layer that is not replaced. The replacement is also a copy. If the original smart object was created using File Open where you choose a RAW file ACR would open with the RAW files current conversion settings. In ACR you can changes the setting then hold down the shift key to change the open image button to an Open Object button. Using that button ACR will open a smart object layer in Photoshop the contents of the embedded object is a copy of the RAW file and the current ACR settings. No File is written Photoshop is not a File Editor its a Document editor that has many data structures for different layer types. When you replace the contents of a smart object you will be put into a "Place" file selection dialog if you choose a raw file it should have the same orientation as the image being replaced because of the associated transform. When you choose a RAW file ACR will open and you can change the conversion settings however there will be no Open Image button instead there will be an OK button. There is also a save image button and you can save a RAW file that is a DNG file not a CR2 file. Like the DNG converter. If you click the OK button the embedded object in the smart object layer will be replaced with a copy of the selected RAW file and the current ACR settings. Again there is no file written Photoshop is not a File editor just the embedded smart object data is replaced in Photoshop smart object layer's data structure.
I do not think the use of smart objects in you process caused what you are experiencing and because it only happens once an a while I feel its more likely caused by some human error made during the processing in those cases. I would look elsewhere for what causing the overlay. In the place file selection dialog it is possible to rename files perhaps even by accident. Programs like LR and Bridge can rename and copy files perhaps overlay other files.

Replace smart object script

Disclaimer: I do not know how to script, but am willing to learn and am looking for advice.
I need to replace the text in a smart object from a data list then save the updated file using the smart object text. Is there an existing script that will do this?
I cannot use a straight text layer because I'm performing a free distortion warp on the smart object that does not work on straight text. Using variables seems like a logical solution, but the only variable type for smart objects is "visibility".
Plan "B" is to "replace smart object" with a series of PSD files containing the appropriate text. This works great, but I don't know how to automate it. I can easily create the series of PSD files using variables, but don't know how to automate their insertion into the template containing the distorted smart object.
I'm looking forward to learning something new!

I took a quick look at your script.
I do not know where the the displacement map come in,
The script seem the be replacing the object content of the current smart object layer.
That layer can have had all sort of photoshop functions associated with it and has an associated transform. All smart object layer have an associated transform and may have smart filters and filter mask as well.
I see no code to handle the smart object size and make the replacement object have the same size or insure the replacement object is the aspect ratio and size. Replacing a smart object content does not change the current layer's associated the transform that transformed the original object. If the replacement object is not the same size as the original object the transform may not work like your expecting.
An associated displacement map may come into play because of smart filters on the smart object layer. Displacement maps content are either for the layers content or for lower layers content to make the current layer to conform to lower layers contours.
In fact I create a four image picture package template that used a smart object for the image. Added CS2 for a file type that could be used to replace the image in your script and ran your script. It did pop up the ACR dialog if I select a raw file but it worked perfectly for my portrait cr2 files are the same size and aspect ratio. Ast the object.
And a jpeg was saved to my desktop.
When a different size landscape orianted portrait image is selected here is the result

Perspective transform for Smart object.

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