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Linked vs. embedded Smart Objects

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Linked vs. embedded Smart Objects

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- [Instructor] Photoshop has the ability to place a linked or embedded smart object. An embedded smart object has no connection with the original source image once it's placed into a Photoshop document. 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. I'm going to open a new file at the default Photoshop size, and then I'll choose file and we'll start with place embedded. I'll navigate to the lobster.psd file. This is a multi-layered file and we'll place it into this open document. I'm just going to scale that down a bit and move it over to the left side. Alright, let's edit the contents of the Smart Object. I can do that by just double clicking on the Smart Object thumbnail in the layers panel. That will bring up the contents of the Smart Object in its own document and I'm just going to choose not to show…

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