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Working with Smart Objects in Photoshop

14 April 2010 / Leave a Comment

Working with Smart Objects in Photoshop

Smart Objects are an often-overlooked, yet handy feature of Photoshop. Introduced in CS2, Smart Objects let you store all kinds of different image content within a single, layer-like object. A Smart Object can store:

  • Any number of Photoshop layers, including bitmap, type, shape, adjustment, and fill layers
  • Vector artwork created in Illustrator
  • An imported image file, including JPEGs, TIFFs, Illustrator files, and even PSD files

In effect, a Smart Object is like having a separate Photoshop or Illustrator document encapsulated in a layer.

Smart Objects sit in the Layers panel just like regular layers. In fact, you can treat a Smart Object much like a bitmap layer — for example, you can move it, resize it, apply layer effects to it, and so on.

When you want to edit the Smart Object’s original content, you just double-click the Smart Object’s thumbnail to open the embedded “document”, make your changes to the document in a separate window, and save. The Smart Object then updates to reflect your edits.

In this tutorial, you’ll look at:

  • The benefits of Smart Objects
  • Creating Smart Objects
  • Editing Smart Objects
  • Duplicating Smart Objects
  • Converting Smart Objects to regular layers

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