{"id":17929,"date":"2013-01-02T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T16:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8353"},"modified":"2013-01-02T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T16:55:23","slug":"demo-the-difference-between-duplicating-a-smart-object-and-creating-new-smart-object-via-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/demo-the-difference-between-duplicating-a-smart-object-and-creating-new-smart-object-via-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Demo: &quot;The Difference Between Duplicating a Smart Object and Creating New Smart Object via Copy&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When devising what became Smart Objects in Photoshop, we had several goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enable non-destructive transformation &#038; filtering<\/li>\n<li>Tighten integration with Illustrator &#038; other apps<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate &#8220;edit one, update many&#8221; parent-child links among layers (a la &#8220;symbols&#8221; in Illustrator, Flash, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last of these is far &#038; away the most obscure and, frankly, confusing. Photoshop doesn&#8217;t present any indication about which layers are linked to which others, and it doesn&#8217;t offer a Library panel for managing SO&#8217;s. (There&#8217;s so, so much potential yet to be unlocked here.)<br \/>\nIn any case, Julieanne Kost uses a real-world example to demonstrate how to link Smart Objects together (simply duplicate them on the Layers panel) and how to duplicate &#038; unlink them.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AdobeTV Video Player\" width=\"425\" height=\"246\" src=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/embed\/36\/15187\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When devising what became Smart Objects in Photoshop, we had several goals: Enable non-destructive transformation &#038; filtering Tighten integration with Illustrator &#038; other apps Facilitate &#8220;edit one, update many&#8221; parent-child links among layers (a la &#8220;symbols&#8221; in Illustrator, Flash, etc.). The last of these is far &#038; away the most obscure and, frankly, confusing. Photoshop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}