Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 324)

317 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Layers
Last updated 1/10/2010
Photoshop updates the Smart Object to reflect the changes you made. (If you don’t see the changes, make the
Photoshop document containing the Smart Object active).
Replace the contents of a Smart Object
You can update the image data in one or multiple (if the Smart Objects are linked) instances of a Smart Object.
Note: When you replace a Smart Object, any scaling, warping, or effects that you applied to the first Smart Object are
maintained.
1 Select the Smart Object, and choose Layer > Smart Objects > Replace Contents.
2 Navigate to the file you want to use, and click Place.
3 Click OK.
The new content is placed in the Smart Object. Linked Smart Objects are also updated.
More Help topics
“ Place a file in Photoshop ” on page 69
Export the contents of a Smart Object
1 Select the Smart Object from the Layers panel, and choose Layer > Smart Objects > Export Contents.
2 Choose a location for the contents of the Smart Object, then click Save.
Photoshop exports the Smart Object in its original placed format (JPEG, AI, TIF, PDF, or other formats). If the Smart
Object was created from layers, it is exported in PSB format.
Convert a Smart Object to a layer
Converting a Smart Object to a regular layer rasterizes the content at the current size. Convert a Smart Object to a
regular layer only if you no longer need to edit the Smart Object data. Transforms, warps, and filters applied to a Smart
Object are no longer editable after the Smart Object is rasterized.
❖ Select the Smart Object, and choose Layer > Rasterize > Smart Object.
If you want to re-create the Smart Object, reselect its original layers and start from scratch. The new Smart Object
won’t retain transforms you applied to the original Smart Object.
About Smart Filters
Any filter applied to a Smart Object is a Smart Filter. Smart Filters appear in the Layers panel below the Smart Object
layer to which they are applied. Because you can adjust, remove, or hide Smart Filters, they are nondestructive.
You can apply any Photoshop filter (that have been enabled to work with Smart Filters)—except for Extract, Liquify,
Pattern Maker, and Vanishing Point—as a Smart Filter. In addition, you can apply the Shadow/Highlight and
Variations adjustments as Smart Filters.
To work with Smart Filters, select a Smart Object layer, choose a filter, and then set filter options. After you apply a
Smart Filter, you can adjust, reorder, or delete it.
To expand or collapse the view of Smart Filters, click the triangle next to the Smart Filter icon, displayed to the right
of the Smart Object layer in the Layers panel. (This technique also shows or hides Layer Style.) Or, choose Layers panel
Options from the Layers panel menu, then select Expand New Effects in the dialog box.