Smart Objects in Photoshop: Why you should use them & how to edit smart objects in Photoshop 2021

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How to use smart objects in photoshop is a super frequent question, specifically how to edit them and why you would even use them in the first place. In this video we cover what a smart object is, why they're useful and when you're actually using them, how to edit a smart object layer to keep fluidity and non-destructiveness at the heart of your Adobe Photoshop workflow.
Short and sweet today, less than 5 minutes to the answers in this one! Enjoy!
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@laudenclear123 3 года назад

This is huge!!! Smart Objects and seemingly not being able to edit the image after the fact has been the bane of my editing existence. NO MORE!!! Thank you x1000000

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

Yay! Great news 🥰

@willborn.sniper5168 3 года назад

Story of my life

@007Yasir Год назад

What most video miss and even on Adobe help, is when you assign a smart object to a layer and right click to edit content, is the part where it opens in another document to do the editing and save and go back to resume your work. I was creating a mock-up for my trifold brochure and learned about placing graphics on each panel through smart object. You explained it well, thank you 👍

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

I'm glad it helped 😊

@DezaviProductions Год назад

HUGE thank you for this. Working on upgrading my thumbnails and downloaded templates for the first time. They use Smart Objects and I had no clue what they were until that moment. Your video helped me understand them, thank you so much!

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

You're very welcome, I'm glad it helped you ☺

@SuperTrooper 3 месяца назад

THANK YOU. It's ridiculous how many videos and articles I had to go through to find this solution.

@DariaCircus Год назад

Thank you so much i was following another tutorial that didn't mention how to confirm a smart object edit and was lucky to find this simplified video x

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

Thank you for those kind words 🙏 So pleased it helped

@EliteDronesAZ Год назад

Lifesaver! I couldnt for the life of me figure out how to edit the smart layers without rasterizing. Thank you.

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

Happy to help! 😀

@klausnielsen7111 3 года назад

Thank you... Just what I needed. Didn't know that you could do that. Saved me hours of work and redoing stuff. Thanks...

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

Glad it helped you ☺️💪

@reginejensen6429 3 года назад

Omg! How easy when you know! Been struggling with this. Thank you Jess

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

Glad to be of help!

@naatali4393 3 года назад

I was experimenting with smart object this morning. ( watching a Pipi video editing 🤓)... perfect timing, again!! Thank’s!! 🤩 Easy to understand ❣️

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

I’m so glad 🤓

@carebear4554 2 года назад

This info is a live saver! I need to practice this for a new gig I'm starting soon. Game changer!

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Aww, that's amazing! 🙏. Good luck with the gig 😊

@tommyoman7389 2 года назад

Great Video!! Then what format do you save your image in when you're done editing if you might later want to go in and edit it some more?

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Thank you so much 🙏. PSD if it’s a super simple edit, but for anything hefty, always a PSB (large document format) to ensure I don’t hit a size limit. Hope that helps 😊

@veroarcila Год назад

Been using Photoshop for a long time and didn't know this trick, so useful. Thank you!!!!!!

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

Glad it helped you 😊

@patricianadarajah6833 3 года назад

Clever! I convert my raw files to smart objects after my edits in photoshop before I go to Denoise too

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

Yes great plan!!

@giuseppebianco9266 Год назад

So helpful! Excellent tutorial. Thanks so much!

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

Glad you found this helpful and thank you for the kind words 🙂

@Imran-pi5rs Год назад

Finally, found a video that explained it all so well. thanks.

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

That's so kind, thank you 🙏 and so great to know it helped

@briankimathi1486 2 года назад

great and cool video....i did not understand anything about the smart object but now I've got it..thanks to you... you are of a very great impact ...may you work on a video of layermask

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏 so great to hear you found the video so useful. Absolutely! if you could pop that idea into the suggestion box we can then take a look 👌 In the meantime you might also find this video helpful ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--M0LLrJVbQU.html. Hope that helps 😊

@nickyvannuffel8079 3 года назад

This was so helpful! I've been losing so much time with this because I couldn't figure out how to edit the smart layers so THANK YOU!

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

You're so welcome!

@markkoller479 Год назад

Very helpful and exactly what I needed. Thank you

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

So pleased it's helped Mark, thank you 🙏

@clairegsi 3 года назад

Great Thankyou. That was very helpful x

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

I’m so glad Claire ❤️

@joh.8203 Год назад

Smart objects have been a mystery! Thank you for this simple explanation and showing how to subsequently make edits to a smart object. Still kind of mysterious but much closer to understanding.

@ayriniemi1154 3 года назад

Jess you are right the algorithm is being a pain I have 4 vids here I haven't seen... odd thing is I'm subscribed and I didnt get an alarm on them. Hrm. Anyways very helpful and I feel like we just talked about this ;)

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

It's so frustrating isn't it! Argh! Keep plodding on tho and doing our thing ☺️

@John_1033 Год назад

Thank you for the video. I learned something new today.

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

I'm glad it helped you 😊

@civilye 3 года назад

Thank you so much... that was an amazing content.

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@thegiantpaperpanda Год назад

Thank you! This was helpful.

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

You are very welcome 😀

@carolineoatway1074 Год назад

Thank you so much. This was so helpful.

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

Thank you Caroline 🙏

@baddogastro 2 года назад

How can you get this to work on a RAW or DNG file?

@Pondicoco1 10 месяцев назад

I´ḿ just getting in to smart objects and your tutorial is a welcome introduction. You make sense of the principles of how it works and thatś just what I needed. Many thanks!!!

@ThatPhotographySpot 10 месяцев назад

I am so glad that this video has been a useful one for you to watch 🤓

@Papeto812001 2 года назад

Thank you so much!

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Thank you 🙏

@Stellifant 2 года назад

Really well explained. Thanks!

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

No worries, glad you found it useful 🤓

@clarencenichols1085 Год назад

Thank you!!! So much

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

You're welcome 🤩

@ronydey2696 3 года назад

Great understanding that's much needed mam over Adobe ps hi there myself Rony an VFX student from India

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

🤗

@MrSuperior36 2 года назад

Easy to understand, thank you.

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

thank you 🙏

@davidcheung28 3 года назад

Nice one!! Thank you!

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

Any time!

@niggasplay Год назад

Thank you!

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

You're so welcome 🙏

@dosam_6146 3 года назад

Excellent content! Thanks!

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

My pleasure!

@kazimshaikh6516 2 года назад

Just what I am searching for 🙏

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

That's great, so pleased you've found us ❤️

@TheColasaufer Год назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

You're SO welcome 🙏

@Mahmoud-mf8hn 2 года назад

Great video, thank you

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Thank you so much 🙏 and thank you for your support

@irohalabdellah Год назад

thanks

@sarahfarr9606 2 года назад

Thank you!!!!

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Thank you so much for your support 🙏 🥰

@baddogastro 2 года назад

I open the .DNG file, which opens into the Camera Raw Tool, I click open from Camera Raw and then it opens in photoshop. Then I converted the .DNG file to a smart object. Then I dbl. click layer and it does open a new tab/image. I can now use content aware tools and other filters, just as described in your video. But when I close that image and hit save, when requested to, it closes that tab and I see the updates applied to the original DNG file, but I do not see any additional smart layers, like the content aware changes or camera raw filter layers, that allow me to go adjust or remove changes.

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Hi there, so if you double click the layer again it should reopen with the adjustments just like before 😊

@baddogastro 2 года назад

@@ThatPhotographySpot thanks

@shaharbinaboobacker6475 2 года назад

Hello Jess, thanks for this video. When I open a file as a smart object from lightroom in photoshop in order to clean up, after pressing edit contents the only thing that pops up is the camera raw. Once I close this I can't seem to be able to use any tools just like before. Is there any workaround this? I am using photoshop 2022. Thanks in advance!

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Open in photoshop not as a smart object and then convert to a smart object and that should work 😊

@shaharbinaboobacker6475 2 года назад

@@ThatPhotographySpot Jess thank you very much for this....just couldn't wrap my head around what I was doing wrong. Appreciate you very much!

@jessicafynmore1488 3 года назад

So helpful thankyou

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

You're so welcome!

@willborn.sniper5168 3 года назад

Wow. Wow. Wow.

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

👌🏼

@kh5551 2 года назад

Thanks alot

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

No problem!

@vaibhavkalra9610 3 года назад

Hey how did you used that big bright zoom circle in video and blur the background, is that a plug in or something ???🤔

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

It's the software we use to record our videos! Have a fab day 💪🏼

@vaibhavkalra9610 3 года назад

@@ThatPhotographySpot was that OBS ?

@seyfdali4896 2 года назад

OMG your accent is sheeesh ❤️❤️

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Thank you! 😄

@t332y7 2 года назад

i like your video and then just now i converted text to shape but i dont know how to convert it back to text，can u teach me？tq

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

Thank you for the great feedback 🙏 To the best of our knowledge you cannot transfer a shape back to text.

@cosmicfoxglove1047 3 года назад

Your videos explain things really simply for thickos like me thank you. I think this video hasn't got the views that the others have just because of the title, It sounds a bit technical and not very exciting.

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

You're not thick at all! I'm just glad to be able to help providing content that is useful for people. Good point on the title, i'll keep it in mind for future 🙂

@cosmicfoxglove1047 3 года назад

@@ThatPhotographySpot Something like "The one tool in Photoshop that professionals use and amateurs overlook: Smart Objects" or something more catchy maybe.

@chestercheese1375 2 года назад

Hello, so when I do the edit contents the save thing wont pop up

@ThatPhotographySpot 2 года назад

If you change something on the document that opens after editing contents, and then press the X on that tab to close it afterwards, you should be given the option to save. Hope that helps 😊

@macvideoworld 3 года назад

when I edit my smart object and close/save it, it makes it into a new file instead of updating the actual smart object file. What am I doing wrong?

@ThatPhotographySpot 3 года назад

It sounds like you may be renaming it? Are you? If so, don’t rename it, just hit x & select the save option that pops up ☺️

@arringtonjohns1795 Год назад

@@ThatPhotographySpot I had same issue. I did exactly what you said but nothing updated on the original smart object file

@FrankWaltersLovestoteach 2 года назад

layers that can lose their resolution is a real headache. Affinity Photo lets us resize images without losing any data

@keabetswegabi6757 Год назад

😭😭😭🔥🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️

@ThatPhotographySpot Год назад

❤🙏

@stepstrajder7283 Год назад

AM I ONLY ONE WITH BROKEN PHOTO SHOP. like i fucking dont get it why i cant move image when its a layer its just fucking stil in same place. i should kms