From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design
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Linked vs. embedded Smart Object - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design
Linked vs. embedded Smart Object
- [Instructor] Photoshop has the ability to place both an embedded or a linked Smart Object. An embedded Smart Object has no connection with the original source file once it's placed into Photoshop. On the other hand when you add a linked Smart Object to a Photoshop document, that linked layer is still connected to the original document. Let's take a look. First I'll choose File and then Place Embedded. I'll place the Match.psd file, and then hold down the Option key on Mac or the Alt key on Windows and just transform it a little bit smaller and move it over the the left, and then tap Enter or Return to apply that transformation. In order to make an edit to the contents of the Smart Object I will double-click on the thumbnail in the Layers panel, and then I'll toggle off the visibility of the yellow flame, choose File, Save, and then File and Close, and we can see that it's been updated in the parent document. Let's…
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