Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Manual (Page 318)

PHOTOSHOP CS3
User Guide
311
See also
“Place a file in Photoshop” on page 75
“Paste Adobe Illustrator art into Photoshop” on page 76
Duplicate a Smart Object
❖ In the Layers palette, select a Smart Object layer, and do one of the following:
• To create a duplicate Smart Object that is linked to the original, choose Layer > New > Layer Via Copy, or drag the
Smart Object layer to the Create A New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. Edits you make to the
original affect the copy and vice versa.
• To create a duplicate Smart Object that isn’t linked to the original, choose Layer > Smart Objects > New Smart
Object Via Copy. Edits you make to the original don’t affect the copy.
A new Smart Object appears in the Layers palette with the same name as the original and “copy” as a suffix.
Edit the content of a Smart Object
When you edit a Smart Object, the source content is opened in either Photoshop (if the content is raster data or a
camera raw file) or Illustrator (if the content is vector PDF). When you save changes to the source content, the edits
appear in all linked instances of the Smart Object in the Photoshop document.
1 Select the Smart Object from the Layers palette, and do one of the following:
• Choose Layer > Smart Objects > Edit Contents.
• Double-click the Smart Objects thumbnail in the Layers palette.
2 Click OK to close the dialog box.
3 Make edits to the source content file, then choose File > Save.
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.
See also
“About placing files” on page 74
Export the contents of a Smart Object
1 Select the Smart Object from the Layers palette, and choose Layer > Smart Objects > Export Contents.