Smart Objects Indeed

So you may or may not have noticed some new header images up there at the top of the blog. Yep, I finally learned the easy way to make those suckers.

I subscribe to the photoshopusertv.com podcast via iTunes so I catch every episode these days to learn more tricks to stuff up my sleeves and pull out every so often. This week’s episode contained a tip by Dave Cross that happened to be just modifiable enough to create a “template” of sorts for the creation of our header images. Just go here, watch it in flash if you like, and skip ahead to 11:45 to view the tip I’m referring to. Now making new headers is as easy as 2 clicks of a pen. (Oh, and if you’re trying to figure out how he clicks in the layers palette to get to the “make smart object” thing he does right off the bat, it’s control+option+click (or control+alt+click for a pc) in the whitespace of the layer he is wanting to affect; he doesn’t explain that one in the podcast.)