Help! Tried To Do Tutorial And My Photoshop Shows Error

Dizmo · Post by **Dizmo** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:28 pm

I got photoshop CS3 extended.

First question is

- Is that the full version of cs3?

I tried this tutorial on youtube:

Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M70LzGUkXUI

But I'm stuck at 1:49~, where the guy asks you to click on select and choose inverse and click delete. I did that but everytime I do that I get this error message that says

Cannot Complete Your Request Because Smart Object Is Not Directly Editable

But the guy could do it? How come, can someone help?

Dizmo · Post by **Dizmo** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:37 pm

Um, replace boochsack in the url above with y..o..u..t...u..b...e

Take out the dots of course, guess this place doesn't like that place. I just want to use it because that's the tutorial I'm looking at and want to reference it.

Vax · Post by **Vax** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:39 pm

Dizmo wrote:Um, replace boochsack in the url above with y..o..u..t...u..b...e

Take out the dots of course, guess this place doesn't like that place. I just want to use it because that's the tutorial I'm looking at and want to reference it.

The Org is not fond of yuutube

Dizmo · Post by **Dizmo** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:47 pm

Yeah, well obviously.

I just want to link that video because I need to show exactly what I'm trying to do.

Simple as that, please don't make a simple question complex.

Vax · Post by **Vax** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:50 pm

Dizmo wrote:Yeah, well obviously.

I just want to link that video because I need to show exactly what I'm trying to do.

Simple as that, please don't make a simple question complex.

I was no where near trying to make it complex.

Dizmo · Post by **Dizmo** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:54 pm

Yeah, sorry, wrong response. I was reading somewhere else and typed it here.

Basically I'm saying that I didn't wanna link yuutube to here, but that's my only reference....

Dizmo · Post by **Dizmo** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:38 pm

That's weird, I finally got it to work when I used a paintbrush and it asked me if I wanted to rasterize it.

What's rasterizing and how do I do it manually?

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:27 pm

Couple things, here:

1. Smart Objects are not like regular layers in Photoshop. What's basically going on is that you have an object in your Photoshop file that exists independently OF the Photoshop file and, as such, you can't do certain things to it unless you choose to edit that object directly (double click on the Smart Object in the layers palette to do this and then read the instructions that pop up). Those things you can't do include changing parts of it while it's active as a Smart Object.

Abridged version: Don't bother with Smart Objects unless you know how to use them.

2. If you rasterize the Smart Object you're telling Photoshop to (basically) convert it into a bunch of pixels that can be messed around with however you want. This includes deleting parts, adding filters and painting on it.

Abridged version: Rasterize your Smart Object and then you can do whatever you want to the resulting layer.

How did you wind up with a Smart Object in the first place?