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Working with Embedded and Linked Smart Objects

In this project you used the Place Embedded option to create Linked fi les also have potential disadvantages. As we
Smart Object layers containing the placed fi le data. In this mentioned previously, double-clicking a Smart Object layer
case the embedded fi le data becomes a part of the parent fi le. thumbnail opens the linked or embedded fi le in an application
that can edit the relevant data. If you are working with linked
If you double-click the thumbnail icon of an embedded Smart Smart Object layers, any changes you make affect the original
Object, the embedded fi le opens in an application that can fi le data. This means your changes appear not only in the
edit the stored data — AI fi les open in Illustrator; PSD, TIFF, parent Photoshop fi le where it is linked, but also in any other
and JPEG fi les open in Photoshop. fi le that links to the same data.

When you fi rst open a Smart Object fi le, the application For a fi le to output properly, linked Smart Object layers must
provides advice for working with Smart Objects: be present and up to date at the time of output.

If the linked fi le has been modifi ed while the parent fi le is
open, the changes automatically refl ect in the parent fi le
when you return to that document. If the parent fi le is not
open in Photoshop when the linked fi le is edited, you will see
a Modifi ed icon for the linked Smart Object layer.
After you make necessary changes, you can save the fi le and If the linked fi le is deleted or moved to another location after
close it, and then return to Photoshop (if necessary). Your it has been placed, the parent fi le will show a Missing icon for
changes in the Smart Object fi le will automatically refl ect in the linked Smart Object layer.
the parent fi le where the Smart Object layer is placed.
If a linked Smart Object has been moved while the parent fi le
Important note: Do not use the Save As option when is not open, you will see a warning dialog box when you open
editing Smart Object layers. The changes will not refl ect in the the parent Photoshop fi le. You can use that dialog box to
parent fi le if you save changes with a different fi le name. locate the missing link, or close it and use the options in the
Layers panel to correct the problem.
If you choose the Place Linked option in the File menu, Smart
Object layer stores a link to the original fi le data rather than Control/right-clicking a linked Smart Object layer name opens
embedding that data inside the parent fi le. a contextual menu with options to update modifi ed content
and resolve broken links.
This icon identifies
a linked, modified
This icon identifies Smart Object layer.
a linked Smart
Object layer. This icon identifies
a linked, missing
Smart Object layer.
This provides an opportunity for maintaining consistency
because you only need to change one instance of a fi le to
refl ect those changes anywhere the fi le is placed.

Say you place a logo created in Illustrator into a Photoshop
fi le. The same logo is also placed as a link in an InDesign fi le.
If you open the logo in Illustrator and change the main color To avoid potential problems with missing linked fi les, you can
(for example), when you save the changes in the original logo use the File>Package command to create a job folder. The
fi le, the new color automatically refl ects in any fi le — whether parent fi le is copied to a
InDesign or Photoshop — that is linked to the edited logo. new folder, along with
a Links subfolder
If you use the Place Embedded option in Photoshop, the containing any fi les
Smart Object layer is not linked to the original, edited logo placed as linked Smart
fi le; you would have to open the embedded Smart Object and Object layers.
make the same color change a second time.

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