- Automatic Smart Objects
- Placing Vector Artwork
- Collages with Smart Objects
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Collages with Smart Objects
If you're not sold on the benefits of using Smart Objects, check this out. Here I created a collage that uses eight copies of the same Smart Object (each time you duplicate the Smart Object, it still "remembers" the original).
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Some of the Smart Objects have adjustment layers that affect them, others have been scaled, and one has a layer mask applied to it. After all this, if I decide that I want to use another photo of the car instead, I simply Control-click (PC: right-click) on one of the Smart Objects and choose Replace Contents. I pick another car photo, and in seconds the collage updates, preserving all the positioning, adjustment layers, and so on.
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Oh and by the way, just because I created the collage with a car in mind, I can easily use this same layout for any photo. Here I used Replace Contents and chose a wedding photo.
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All I had to do then was change the text and slightly reposition the masked layer. How cool is that?
Imagine the possibilities of Smart Objects: creating templates, incorporating complex vector artwork, and more. And we haven't even touched on the ability to create Smart Objects from Camera Raw files or making a multilayered Photoshop document into a Smart Object. The sky really is the limit.