The Smartling Adobe Photoshop plugin allows Account Owner and Project Manager Smartling users to submit content and context directly from Adobe Photoshop to Smartling for translation, and retrieve the content once it's complete.
Please note that this plugin is a paid product. For pricing information, please reach out to your Smartling Customer Success Manager.
Prerequisites
Adobe Photoshop app
Access to Adobe Creative Cloud
Access to Smartling as an Account Owner or Project Manager user
This means having an activated user account (i.e. you have signed in to Smartling successfully)
If working on a newer MacBook with an M1 or M2 chips, enabling Rosetta is required
Create a Photoshop project in Smartling
Create a new project in Smartling
Select "Connector" as the project type, then choose "Photoshop" as the connector type.
Download the Smartling Photoshop Plugin
Launch Adobe Creative Cloud
Go to Stock & Marketplace
Filter for Plugins and search "smartling"
Click on the Smartling Plugin tile for Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign and then select Install.
The Smartling Photoshop Plugin has successfully installed. Next, access the plugin.
Note on Smartling Adobe Plugins
You will see three Smartling plugins in the marketplace:
Smartling – Recommended for use with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop only. Referenced in this documentation.
Smartling Plugin for InDesign – Recommended for use with Adobe InDesign.
Smartling Plugin for Photoshop (Legacy) – Not recommended for use.
Access the Smartling Photoshop Plugin
To access the Smartling Photoshop plugin and all its functionality;
Launch Photoshop
Open the Photoshop file that you want to translate
You must have the file open in Photoshop to take any action on it via the Smartling plugin
This is the source file that the Smartling plugin will convert into a JSON file for translation
Click Window > Extensions (legacy) > Smartling
Log in to Smartling via the Photoshop Plugin
In Photoshop, open a Photoshop file
Click Window > Extensions (legacy) > Smartling
This opens up a new tab in your browser, where you can log in to your Smartling account
Next, in the Account Summary modal, select the Smartling Project you want your Photoshop content translated in
If the modal has been closed, simply click Window > Extensions (legacy) > Smartling
Choose to exclude irrelevant strings
Enabling this setting prevents any string that contains only numbers, special characters or emojis from being submitted for translation
Unselect this checkbox to include this content for translation
Choose if you would like to enable variants
By default, variants are disabled. If variants should be created, please enable this setting before submitting any content for translation. New variants for strings will be generated based on the text node ID and the text node position in a table grid.
In most cases, it is recommended to leave variants disabled. If enabled, new variants will be created on each upload of a file.
Click Save
Once the confirmation flag appears, you can click X to close out the window
You are now ready to start translating with the Photoshop plugin.