Learn how to apply Free Transform to Smart Objects so that you keep the images' original resolutions as you resize, allowing for greater flexibility.

Deke McClelland shows you how to edit the contents of a vector-based Smart Object inside Illustrator and then hand off the changes back to Photoshop. This is a great example of two applications interacting with each other. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Deke McClelland demonstrates how to import an illustration into Photoshop as a Smart Object, which allows you to reference the original vector-based information so that, among other things, you can scale the illustration inside of Photoshop as much as you want. Learn more from the full course at lynda.com.

Object Style Options now has an new Export Tagging feature. Learn more about it in this video from Train Simple's InDesign Training.

Jeff Sengstack explains how to apply "bump maps" to 3D objects and then adjust them. Bump maps give 3D objects texture -- bumpiness. They can make a reptile's skin look rough, create a sense of contours on the surface of a planet, or make a smooth sphere look like the skin of an orange. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop.

FrameMaker goes beyond Word in extending your style control over graphic object styles. As with paragraphs, character tags and tables, FrameMaker provides a catalog for object styles, which can enable you to globally update the position or appearance of named anchored frames and graphics. This functionality empowers you to achieve consistency with graphic formatting just as you have always done with text formatting.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates how nesting Smart Objects enables each filter applied to have it’s own unique Smart Filter (layer) masks.

Many of us have been frustrated by how "slippery" the positioning of anchored frames can be in Word. FrameMaker 11 provides considerably more control. This video starts out with a bang, showing how you can easily generate a table of parts, views or animations (with auto-hypertext links) to a 3D graphics. The published PDF output provides an attractive, guided user experience. Discover how FrameMaker 11's new Object Styles allow you to name, then globally update the appearance or positioning of both anchored frames and graphic objects. Hotspots also allow you to create a link between a zone of a graphic and related text.

Word's style catalogs don't obviously segregate text styles from paragraph styles. FrameMaker 11 provides simple, logical catalogs for paragraphs, character styles, table styles and even graphic object styles. In FrameMaker 11, not only can you globally update headings, lists and emphasized text, you can even change all instances of named tables, labeled anchored frames or graphic objects! This allows you a level of formatting control and document consistency amongst multiple authors you could have only dreamed of with Word. Warning: once you use these tools, there is no turning back.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne explains the difference between duplicating a Smart Object using the Layers panel to create multiple instances of a layer and creating a copy of a Smart Object using the application menu for independent editing.