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Working with Embedded and Linked Smart Objects
In the previous exercise you used the Place Embedded
Linked files also have potential disadvantages. As we
PHOTOSHOP FOUNDATIONS becomes a part of the parent file. an application that can edit the relevant data. If you are
mentioned previously, double-clicking a Smart Object
option to create Smart Object layers that contain the
layer thumbnail opens the linked or embedded file in
placed file data. Using that method the embedded file data
working with linked Smart Object layers, any changes you
If you double-click the thumbnail icon of an embedded
make affect the original file data. This means your changes
Smart Object, the embedded file opens in an application
appear not only in the parent Photoshop file where it is
that can edit the stored data — .AI files open in Illustrator;
linked, but also any other file that links to the same data.
PSD, TIFF, and JPEG files open in Photoshop.
For a file to output properly, linked Smart Object layers must
When you first open a Smart Object file, the application
be present and up-to-date at the time of output.
provides advice for working with Smart Objects:
If the linked file has been modified while the parent file is
open, the changes automatically reflect in the parent file
when you return to that document. If the parent file is not
open in Photoshop when the linked file is edited, you will
see a Modified icon for the linked Smart Object layer.
If the linked file is deleted or moved to another location
After you make necessary changes, you can save the file after it has been placed, the parent file will show a Missing
and close it, then return to Photoshop (if necessary). Your icon for the linked Smart Object layer.
changes in the Smart Object file will automatically reflect in
the parent file where the Smart Object layer is placed. If a linked Smart Object has been moved while the parent
file is not open, you will see a warning dialog box when you
Important note: Do not use the Save As option when open the parent Photoshop file. You can use that dialog box
editing Smart Object layers. The changes will not reflect in to locate the missing link, or close it and use the options in
the parent file if you save changes with a different file name. the Layers panel to correct the problem.

If you choose the Place Linked option in the File menu, Control/right-clicking a linked Smart Object layer name
Smart Object layer stores a link to the original file data opens a contextual menu with options to update modified
rather than embedding that data inside the parent file. content and resolve broken links.
This icon identifies
a linked, modified
Smart Object layer.
This icon identifies This icon identifies
a linked Smart a linked, missing
Object layer.
Smart Object layer.

This provides an opportunity for maintaining consistency
because you only need to change one instance of a file to
reflect those changes anywhere the file is placed.
Say you place a logo created in Illustrator into a Photoshop To avoid potential problems with missing linked files, you
file. The same logo is also placed as a link in a number of can use the File>Package command to create a job folder.
InDesign documents. If you open the logo in Illustrator and The parent file is copied to a new folder, along with a Links
change the main color (for example), then save the changes subfolder containing any files that are placed as linked
in the original logo file, the new color automatically reflects Smart Object layers.
in any file — whether InDesign or Photoshop — that is
linked to the edited logo.

If you use the Place Embedded option in Photoshop, the
Smart Object layer is not linked to the original, edited logo
file; you would have to open the embedded Smart Object
and make the same color change a second time.

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