advanced object handling - Smart Objects

[nkaretnikov]

Hello!
A fellow of mine created a nice .psd file

As you can see, on a MFD screen there's a smartobject and its borders perfectly match those of the MFD's touchscreen
I have no idea how to do that. There should, I believe, be a way to first define borders of the screen and than just make smartobject fit there
Would you please suggest a way to achieve that?

 

[IamSam]

Hello and welcome. This is one easy method, there are others if you are interested.

Open your main image that you wish to change.


Open the replacement image you wish to add to the touchscreen panel of the original image.


Convert the replacement image to a Smart Object.
Lower the opacity of the replacement image.
Enter free transform (Cmd/Cntrl + T)
Right click and choose "distort"
Transform the replacement image to fit in the original touchscreen panels area.



Once done hit "enter" or "OK".
Return the replacement image's opacity to 100%



You can now double click the SO and open the PSB file, make changes, save changes.........