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Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects

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Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects

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- [Lecturer] In the next few minutes, we're going to take a look at how we can take advantage of Smart Objects when we work with multiple instances of a shape in order to keep the editing of those shapes as efficient and flexible as possible. I'm going to return to the Shape tools and select the Polygon tool. I'll right click in order to reset the tool, and then I want to change the number of sides to six and I'm also going to remove the stroke by clicking on the swatch and choosing none. Then in the image area, I will click and drag out my polygon. I'm holding down the shift key in order to constrain it, and if I hold down the command key on Mac, control key on Windows, I can also rotate it, and I want this shape to end up looking like this, where the point is pointing down. All right, before I do anything else, I'm going to convert this live shape to a Smart Object so that I can make duplicates of it and they'll all…

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