(soft music)
- In this lesson,
we will learn the features of smart objects
that are essential for a compositing.
If you want to understand the basics of smart objects
and how they work and all the fundamentals,
I would highly recommend that you go back
and watch the lesson on layers.
And once you get the fundamentals right,
you can always get back to this one.
I hope you already and I'm sure you are
so without any further ado let's get started.
But before we begin, let's do a little housekeeping stuff.
What do I mean by that?
Well, right now, let's see what happens
when we place a document on a blank canvas.
So this is a blank canvas
the dimension of this one is 1920 by 1080.
Just keep that in mind for reference, right.
Right now, if I just take an image,
drag it and drop it onto the canvas, see what happens?
The image doesn't fit the canvas
and if I hit enter it's not a smart object.
Why is it happening?
Because I made a little change in the preferences.
So to avoid that let's get started on the right foot first.
To do that, just make sure once you open Photoshop,
go to the Preferences by going to Edit and then Preferences.
If you are on a Mac
that would be under Photoshop and then Preferences.
Inside of preferences, simply click on general
or once you open the preferences,
you can just go to the general tab right there.
Now, inside of that,
just make sure you have resized image during place checked.
If you have that unchecked, what will happen is,
have a look this is 1920 by 1080, right?
Now this image is how much,
this is 3500 by 2333 much larger dimension.
So once you place it,
what happens is that it places it much bigger
than the canvas
because it's placed according to its resolution,
because it has a bigger resolution
you have a bigger image right there.
You will see a similar problem
when the canvas is much larger than the original image.
So if I go to image, image size and choose a larger canvas,
let's go for 6,000 all right and hit okay.
You would notice that now when you place it,
let's just drag it and drop it over the canvas.
You would notice that the image is much smaller
than that of the canvas.
How do we resolve this issue by simply going to edit,
preferences and then just make sure in the general stamp,
you have resized image cheering place, checked, hit okay.
Now when you place it Photoshop will fit the image
to the canvas, only and only if it's smaller
and I wanted to make this clear to you.
So right now it's still smaller on the larger canvas.
However, if you have a smaller canvas,
which is 1920 by 1080, now what happens is that
now when you drag it and drop it,
you will notice that it fits to the canvas, right?
So that it becomes easier for you
to deal with these objects.
Now, once you hit enter, once you've set this image up,
hit enter, this is no more a smart object.
Now what are the demerits of this not being a smart object
or in other words, what are the demerits of raster layers?
Simple, everything you do is burned to the pixels.
So what happens is if you make it really, really small
for something, now we wouldn't go that extreme,
but even a little size change can lead to loss of details.
So for showing you an extreme result, I made it this small
and then later I decided that
now I need to make it a little larger
I need to place it here and there.
Now, when you try to make it larger you would notice
that you have lost all the details in the image, right?
So to a wide that it's essential that
when you place an image by default,
it is placed as a smart object.
So let's get rid of this and then let's go to edit
and then preferences.
And inside of that again let's go to general
and make sure you have always created smart objects
when placing once you hit okay,
you would notice that once we place this
or any image into Photoshop, if it is larger than that,
of the canvas it'll fit to the canvas.
And now once I hit enter or return,
you would notice by the symbol right over there,
that this is a smart object.
Pretty cool isn't it?
Now we have talked about a little housekeeping stuff,
and let's start with raw photos.
Yes, you can use smart objects with raw photos
and there are actually a plethora of advantages.
One of the biggest advantage it's always with smart objects
is that you can always go back and change the values later.
So what happens when you drop a raw photo in Photoshop?
Let's see what happens.
So if I go to my finder,
I think I have some raw photo right here.
So this is a photo that I clicked in Las Vegas.
So let's just drag it and drop it right there
not over the canvas right there.
Now when you drop a raw photo in Photoshop,
it will open that up in Adobe Camera Raw.
It'll give you lots of raw controls.
Now you already know some of you already know
the advantages of raw photos.
When you click photos in raw files format,
you can change the white balance after the fact,
it's not burned to the pixels,
you have the complete control
over the white balance right here.
So I'm just gonna set to as shot as it was shot.
You also have more leeway into the highlights
and the shadows, you have more details
you have more information, lots of stuff,
you can recover a lot.
See, if you dig the exposure all the way to the right,
the extreme bright areas are recovered.
So there's a lot of options right here.
Now here's the thing
if you click on open directly,
it'll just open it as a regular image.
It won't have the advantages of changing the white balance
later or having more information and more range
to recover highlights and shadows, it won't have that.
And also now I cannot go back and change the white balance,
whatever I changed now, we'll be on a raster layer
it's all burned down to the pixels
it doesn't have much details as the raw photo
I cannot go back and have those settings.
Instead of doing that, let's go ahead and delete this.
Let's close this document, no, I don't want to save it.
Let's just do that one more time
let's drag it and drop it right there in the Photoshop.
Now this time I'm gonna do little changes here and there,
and you're gonna see the advantage.
So let's say I decreased the exposure,
or maybe I decrease the highlights a little bit,
just like this and then maybe we increased the contrast
is looking interesting then maybe a little bit more clarity
right here and then increase in the shadows a little bit.
All right, these changes from...
Remember the values, the shadow is plus 52
highlights minus 100, right?
Now, instead of clicking on open if you hold the Shift key,
you would notice that the button changes to open object.
So now when you click on it and by the way,
you can always choose open as object by default as well.
Or you can just click on the arrow
and then choose open as object
let me do that again for you.
If you drag it and drop it and I always use this method,
I just hold the Shift key and click on open as object
when I want to, because there are many times, many instances
when I just open it as a raster image, all right.
So I made these changes
plus 52 shadows minus 100 highlights
if I hold the Shift key,
the button changes to open object.
If you also click on the dropdown
you will get those options.
Anyway, so hold the Shift Key changes to open object.
You click on that, you would notice that now it opens it up
as a smart object.
Now let's say after doing a lot of work,
lot of composite branding, designing and all that stuff,
you wanna go back and change some values.
So all you have to do is to double click on the thumbnail.
Once you do, it'll get you back to Camera Raw
and it'll have all the changes that we had done before.
Have a look,
it still has plus 52 shadows,
it still has minus 100 highlights.
See the advantage of smart objects.
Now let me share with you one more advantage,
and this is not an advantage it's more of a technique
that is going to be very important for you
no matter what you do in Photoshop, it's very important.
Okay, so first of all, let's reset all of this to default.
You see the three dots right there,
click on that and choose a reset to default.
Now, what I want to do is just increase the contrast
a little bit to make it more exciting.
So we're gonna keep it at about 42
and open that as an object.
Now it's already a smart object so once I do these,
it'll still be a smart object.
Now, when you make a copy of this press CTRL
or COMMAND + J to make a copy.
Now, the source of both of these layers is the same.
What if I want the source to be different?
What do I mean by that again, is it getting all confusing?
Let me share this with you.
Okay, so for this second layer right here,
let's say I want to recover the highlights
and then I want to create a mask
so that I have the recovered highlights for just this one.
So this is the base layer
and let's name this one as Recover Highlights.
Now what'll happen is if I just double click
on the thumbnail of this
now whatever I do in this, let's say I want to recover
the highlights by decreasing the exposure
and the highlights.
So if I decrease the highlights and also the exposure,
the highlights are recovered,
but everything else is also becoming dark.
And I just want this section in that layer
by creating a mask and that should work, right.
But if you hit okay,
you would notice that not only this layer changes,
but both of them change, why?
Because both of them have the same source.
How do we make an arrangement so that both of them
can have a different source
and can be unique in their own way?
Well you can do this.
Let's first of all go back by pressing CTRL
or COMMAND + Z or Z however you pronounce it.
Let's just delete this one and right click on the base
and choose new smart object via copy.
Once you choose that, now both of them are unique
and both of them are different individuals.
So if you change one the other one would not change.
So for this one we can name it, recover highlights.
All right, now just double click
on the thumbnail of the layer.
Now you can easily recover all the highlights you want.
So I'm just gonna decrease the highlights, all right,
we have all the details there.
You can also decrease the exposure a bit and hit, okay.
All right, we didn't want it in rest of the areas
just on this area.
So now you can turn this off for a moment,
come to the base and then go to select and color range.
Now we want to select the highlights
so click on the dropdown and choose highlights right here.
Now decrease the range and adjust it
first of all decrease the fuzziness all the way to zero.
Now we're gonna start increasing it
you can also choose the selection preview to be gray scale.
Now depends upon how accurate you want the selection to be.
So I want a selection here
so this seems to be all right to me
and then you can increase the fussiness.
Fuzziness is actually the transition between the areas
that are selected and areas which are not.
So about 49, 50 looks good to me and this is 194 is okay
we have a selection of the bright areas.
You can always decrease or increase the range
according to your convenience.
So I'm gonna keep it at about 209, hit okay.
Now we have a selection
all we have to do is to turn on recover highlights,
and just click on the mask button.
So now have a look for the recover highlights
we have this mask
and we're only recovering the highlights of the bright area
so here's the before here's the after.
Now I only wanted to recover this area, not the other areas.
What do I do now?
So with the recover highlights layer selected,
press CTRL or COMMAND + G
we don't wanna disturb this mask.
If we want it, we can just go to this mask
and paint other areas with black,
but I didn't wanna disturb it.
So can use the technique of double masking.
Remember double masking technique,
just from the previous lesson
on advanced layer masking techniques,
we're gonna use the same technique right here.
So for the group,
hold the Alt key or the option key
and click on the mask button to create a negative mask.
Then you take the brush with white as the foreground color,
make the brush a little larger and then just paint it
on the areas where you want to recover the highlights,
increase the flow and opacity to a hundred percent
just paint on that area
where you want to recover highlights, that's it.
I only wanted to do it in just that area
and there we have it my friend,
let's paint on this area as well, and there you have it.
So here's the before it's just blowing out, blowing away
and here's the after,
the other areas are not damaged as well.
So there we go that's how to create
a copy of the smart object that is unique in its own way.
Now you might ask why is by default
when we make a copy of a smart object, both of them,
why do they have the same source?
Let me share this with you
if you have a regular smart object,
if I go here and then if I just open any image,
let's open this image right here in a blank document, right?
And now I'm just gonna make a simple design,
just trying to make you understand why it's important
that by default, when you make a copy of the smart object,
both of them have the same source.
It's important, especially when it comes to mock-ups
you will understand the meaning here.
So let's say on one side, I wanted it to be like this,
and I made another copy of this
by simply selecting this layer,
then pressing CTRL or COMMAND + J and for this copy,
I just placed it just right here.
All right, this is not an exact design of what I would want
and now you would just select this area
and then create a mask by clicking on the mask button.
All right, and for the one at the bottom of that,
you would add a little blur by going to filter blur,
and then Gaussian blur, right?
Just a little bit blur.
All right, let's go for about 16
and now let's just make it a little darker
by adding a solid color,
adjustment black, decreased opacity.
And this area is an area for some texts.
So click on the T for the text tool
it's actually the text too.
And now I'm gonna just paste some symbol text, alright.
Now, first of all let's align it properly
it doesn't really matter what the text is
let's just color it white, simple text
and we can choose a symbol font right here as well.
Let's say we go with this one, a nice font here,
not a simple one, a pretty nice one, now the gap is awkward
we're just gonna go to character properties
and just increase the gap right here
about let's go with about 60 or let's set it to auto
that is better.
All right, now what have you did, it really doesn't matter
I didn't do a master typography here.
Now, see these are copies of smart objects, right?
So whatever changes I make in this one
will happen in this one as well,
alright, so what's the advantage of this.
So let's say you wanted to add a little more contrast to it,
and you have instances of the same object
all over the place, right?
So if I just double click on it
and let's say I wanted to change the hue a little bit,
I wanted to make it a little funky,
or maybe you wanted to add a color lookup table to it.
So let's go ahead and add a color lookup table,
and then let's go for crisp warm
now it's black due to some Photoshop error.
I'm gonna select that again, it should work, I don't know.
It is not working for some reason
anyway, so let's go with candle light right now
all right, and it just a Photoshop error don't mind it.
We need to merge it, unfortunately,
because if you save it right now by pressing CTRL
or COMMAND + S it won't save it
because this was a regular image not a Photoshop document.
So you would have to merge it here
and press CTRL or COMMAND + S, hit okay.
What happens is now we need to get back to your design
you would notice that it changed.
See, it was something else before
it was all colorful and stuff
after we applied the color lookup table,
this one changed and the top one change as well.
So this is very useful when we are creating mock-ups
now keep in mind once you insert this kind of thing
and if you wanna make changes inside the image,
I would rather prefer that you didn't paste a JPEG instead,
I would recommend that you paste a PSG file
so that we don't have to merge everything
so that we can make changes and add layers to it
right now we cannot add layers and save it.
Anyway, so here we are so that is the advantage
of, having the same source or both at the default
so that when you change something,
every instance of that smart object will change.
If you wanna make an individual copy,
just right click on it
and then choose new smart object via copy.
Now, let us talk about smart object grouping and ungrouping
now besides organizational advantages
there are many advantages
to grouping smart objects into one.
For example, have a look at this image.
Now this is a composite so if you look at it
before I've added the rain and the subject is different.
So here's the before, right?
And I blurred the background in a certain way
I created a little bit shadow right here
and a little bit rain stuff and added the subject, yeah.
And then definitely we need to make adjustment
to the subject because it's not matching at all.
It's the font that we made some adjustments with curves
so that it matches more with that of the background
we added some rain on top of her,
and some more rain on top of her
so this is what we get.
Now, don't worry
we will learn how to do that in the upcoming lessons
about composites will absolutely create this from scratch,
and we can do this together so don't worry about it.
The point that I'm trying to make here is right now,
it's fine, it's not a huge image.
And there are not many layers, but in many cases,
when you're creating composites like this,
or even when you're retouching,
you would create a lot of layers.
And sometimes the layers are so many
that Photoshop begins to lag.
Right now it's not lagging
if I create a brand new layer,
and if I take the brush and try to paint something,
it's not lagging, it's pretty fine.
However, if there are many layers,
let me just make a lot of duplicates of this
it would make more sense to you.
So I'm gonna select it all till here
and then make a group of it and make a couple copies.
Even making one copy is taking a lot of time.
Still it's the Photoshop document is not lagging
it's beginning to lag a little bit, but it's not that much.
Now I just gonna take simple layers here,
or maybe create a stem visible layer at the top
and make a lot of copies of it.
So let me turn this off, turn all of that off
and press CTRL or COMMAND + J a lot of times.
You have a lot of copies right now,
and then we can make a group of all of this.
This is just to show you what happens
when you have a lot of layers
and you will have a lot of layers
so I'm talking about a practical situation here.
Okay, now we have tons of layers
now, if you try to work on it,
you would notice that Photoshop is beginning to lag.
It's beginning to lag so much that once you draw it,
it just appears a little later,
also the layers begin to lag a lot.
So now I want to do, when you have a lot of layers
and Photoshop is beginning to lag.
Here's how you can trick Photoshop.
So you can group all of these layers into one smart object
that will make Photoshop treat all of those layers
as just one layer.
And when that happens,
it just lightens the load on Photoshop.
Now you might say that's like merging, right?
You won't get access to all of the layers again,
you won't get access to the adjustment layers
no it's not like that.
You still have access to it
it's just that the access gets a little more restricted.
But if you know that
you're not gonna need these layers later,
but still want to have it for emergency
but in that case you can do it.
Select the first layer, hold the Shift key,
select the bottom most layer right click on it
and then choose convert to smart object.
Now it's gonna take a little while,
but what'll happen is it'll just group all of that
into a smart object.
And if you want to access the properties,
there's a way to do it actually there are two ways to do it.
Now as you can see it's all grouped into one smart object.
Now if you noticed Photoshop becomes so snappy
it doesn't have to deal with a lot of layers,
everything is just so smooth and it just gets faster.
So if you want to progress your editing
and there are already a lot of layers
or sometimes the resolution is so big.
Even if you have a few layers Photoshop begins to lag,
then you can use this trick.
These days we have 50 megapixel, 150 megapixel,
medium format cameras, really crazy.
Even consumer cameras have gotten so higher in resolution
that it's important to understand and know this trick.
So now, if you already know that you're not gonna
use those bunch of layers only and only then
you use this technique.
But still for emergency
if you want access to all of those adjustments and layers
you can still have added,
you can double click on the thumbnail of this layer
it'll open up another document
let me just double click on it with my mouse.
It was just not responding the pen for some reason.
Now it's taking a little while
it's gonna take a little while,
but you will have access to it.
Now, as you can see it opens up in a brand new document
it also has stored the entire overlays right here.
So if you open that up, you have access to everything
every layer right here,
you have access to the overlays and stuff.
So if you wanna make changes to anything,
just change it here and press CTRL or COMMAND + S
to save it and then once you get back to it,
everything will be updated.
The other way to get back access to it
or to get the document the way it was
is just right click on the smart object
and then choose convert to layers.
As you can see the process is now complete
now keep in mind that doesn't mess it all up
by just spreading all the layers here and there
it groups all of that and organizes that.
So now when he opened the group,
you have access to everything that was
inside of the smart object.
So there we go, if you have a very huge document
and Photoshop is lagging,
take a bunch of layers that you know,
that you're not gonna use so frequently,
but you still wanna have access to all of the adjustments
as an emergency select all of that,
and then group it into a smart object.
Once you do that Photoshop treats it as one layer
and Photoshop gets snappier.
To make it less complicated, organized
and also not having to deal with masks and such,
just select the subject, hold the Shift key,
select the top most adjustment for the subject, right?
Click on it, and then choose convert to smart object.
Now you just have the subject, you just have the background,
you just have the shadow,
you can also group the shadow accordingly as well
and choose the blend mode accordingly.
It's just easy,
now you don't have to deal with the masks
and every adjustment is inside of this.
If you wanted to get back access to it
you can always convert it back to layers,
or you can just double click on it.
And it opens up another document
with all of the adjustments.
So let's say you want it to darken everything a little more.
I'm going a little extreme here
And if you've pressed CTRL or Command + S
and if you get back to your document you would notice
that all of those changes has taken place.
If you wanna go back again, press CTRL or COMMAND + Z,
and there you have the image how it was.
Now it is time for us to learn about embedded smart objects
and linked smart objects and they are as the name suggests.
Up until now whatever we were doing,
when it comes to smart objects, all of those were embedded,
which means those were embedded into the document.
If in the document you have a smart object,
which is a part of the document
then it is an embedded smart object.
If in the document you have a smart object
that just not a part of this document,
but it's something separate and it's linked to the document
it's a linked smart object.
Let me share with you some differences.
Remember this design that we had done
for the text tool lesson,
let's redo this again with a twist of smart objects.
All right, so first of all let's get rid
of both of these layers
and let's drag and drop in our images.
So here I have a kitchen image, let's go with this one,
let's drag it and drop it into Photoshop.
Now once we do this, it's placed embedded
it's embedded do this document.
It's a bot of this document even though it's a smart object.
Other way of doing that, doing the same thing exactly
if you go to file and then place embedded,
it's doing the exact same thing as dragging and dropping
and that's why it is called place embedded
let's click on that and let's choose the same image.
It tells us that this is a part off this document.
Now what are linked smart objects,
but let's say instead of doing that,
let's open that image separately
and I'm gonna save that as a BSD for our convenience.
So here's the kitchen image
let's open that up and let's add a few layers,
or if you don't wanna add that's fine too
we're gonna add that later anyway.
Let's go to file save as and let's save it as the same name,
but this time let's choose BSD Photoshop document
and let's save it.
Now, we're gonna place it linked to this time.
So let's go to file and a place linked, okay?
Now I'm gonna choose kitchen1.PSD, let's place it, okay?
Now this is a separate entity my friend,
now look at this icon right there, it's a different icon.
It means that it is a smart object,
but it's a linked smart object, okay?
Now let's just drag it behind the curves adjustment
let me make a copy of it adjust the way it was.
And now I'm just gonna keep that area,
this area right here and create a mask like this
and also only apply curves to this one.
Hold the Alt key or the option key
click on the line between these two layers.
This is interesting.
Now also we want to darken this a little bit in this case
So we're gonna add another curve adjustment layer
and hold the Alt key or the option key click on it.
And maybe I wanna just dark in it a little bit like that,
and maybe we wanna select this mask
with the help of a gradient, let's try different gradients
that looks better.
Let's try something like this
this looks exciting, doesn't it?
So this looks good, you're gonna keep it this way.
And also we can blur it a little bit on link that
let's go to Filter, Blur and then Gaussian Blur
a little bit blur for the background
as you can see the background is getting blurred
all right this looks fantastic.
Now here's the advantage of linked smart object.
It's an absolute separate entity.
So let's save this is design one, right?
Let's save this, okay.
Now even if you close this everything is closed
if you have kitchen1.psd open,
if you open at any time,
if let's say you thought of making it black and white,
so let's add a black and white adjustment layer.
Now everything is black and white the color is gone.
Now on top of that,
you felt like you wanted to add a gradient maybe,
or a gradient map, whatever you want it to do.
And I wanted to add a duo tone,
something like this hit, okay
and then change the blend mode from normal to soft light,
and then saved it.
Press CTRL or COMMAND + S, this is a PSD so not an issue.
And then when he opened design1 again,
you would notice something.
So let's open design1 again and it shows you an error.
The error is actually saying to you
that the objects have been modified
do you want to modify it?
To modify it all you have to do again,
is to go to layer and inside of that smart objects,
and here you will find update all modified content.
And once you do that, all the modified content
will be updated even though it's separate entity.
Now, again you can do this with the regular
smart objects as well right?
So what is the advantage of linked smart object?
Well, you can have several design linked do the same thing
and if you modify the source every design
will modify it as well.
So let's say I have another design which is design2
let's open this design, okay?
Now in this design, instead of this image,
I placed the same kitchen image as linked.
So let's go to file place linked
now let's place the same kitchen image right here,
and I'm gonna place it right there.
Let's make it a little larger, keep it like this,
okay there you go.
All right now as you can notice
that it's the same design right here
and now design1 has the same kitchen.
Now if I go to kitchen and if I make any change here,
let's just go ahead and add...
Let's just paint with something.
So with a Hard Round Brush, Hard Round Pressure size
so if I start painting right here with white, all right.
And if I save it by pressing CTRL or COMMAND + S
you would notice that design1 updates,
design2 updates as well.
See the advantage of linked smart objects,
it's linked to a separate entity
so that whatever branding kits you have in every kit
that will be updated, does that make sense?
So let's say you have a branding kit,
or you have a portfolio with a lot of pages,
or you have social media templates.
And in all of that you have your logo
or your branding at the bottom as a linked smart object
and you have hundreds of these, right?
Would you be opening hundreds of these documents
and modifying your logo and all of that?
No, all you have to do is to just go to that logo file,
modify it and it will automatically be modified
in all of those document, why?
Because they are linked,
so that's the advantage of linked smart object.
Embedded is just a smart object embedded
inside that particular document, okay, makes sense?
Now let's talk about a Layer Comps
how can he work with Layer Comps and smart objects?
Now, Layer Comps also work with embedded smart objects
it also works with linked smart objects,
depending upon how you would want to apply it.
If you have a lot of documents sourcing to one document.
Well, in that case use a linked,
and otherwise embedded is fine too.
So let's say for the kitchen one,
let's close this one and let's go to the kitchen
and let's delete all that.
Now let's talk about Layer Comps a little bit,
if you're not already familiar.
So this is the original version, right?
Let's just create a stamp of this original version
by going to Window and then let's go to Layer Comps.
So it should be right here, it's not showing up
there he go Layer Comps.
Now Layer Comps can record visibility, position,
layer styles to keep it simple.
We're just gonna focus on visibility
before creating a Layer Comp
let's create different versions of it.
So this is the original version now let's create,
let's say a black and white version of the same.
So if you're gonna click on black and white adjustment layer
you can make some changes here and there.
And also let's add some contrast because black and white
looks really good with some contrast.
So let's go here increase the curve here
and we're gonna just decrease the curve right there.
So some high-end contrast
so this is the black and white version.
Now let's create a duo tone version
let's just turn off both of these layers.
Now we're gonna create a gradient map
and now in here you have some interesting gradients.
So I have some duo tone effects as well
also, you can look at basics blues so you can have these.
This is interesting, this is very interesting
all right, so let's say we're gonna go with this.
So this is one dual twin effect
by now we have three versions.
We have original, you have black and white and the duotone.
So now let's open up Layer Comps
And in here, if you still cannot see it,
just go to Window and click on Layer Comps,
and just turn off all of that
this is the original version click on plus,
and let's name it or original.
And I only want to record the visibility
in other words the visibility of the layers, all right,
you can also record the position if you just
transform anything and place it here and there,
you can just store that as well anyway,
so this is the original version
now I want the black and white version.
So let's turn both of these on make it black and white
click on plus, now black and white.
All right, now I want the duotone version.
So I'm gonna click on plus and choose duotone, alright
now we have all of these versions.
Now let's save it, press CTRL or COMMAND + S to save it.
Now, if you go to design1
you would notice that even though it's linked,
it'll also work with embedded as well, that this changed.
However here's the fancy thing
now if you just open up the properties
by simply going to Windows
and then make sure that properties is checked
or simply click on this button right there
if it's there for you,
you would notice that there's a dropdown.
And in that dropdown right now,
it's not applying a Layer Comp.
However you can apply the original one,
you can apply the black and white one,
or you can also work with duotone.
And you can have different Layer Comps for different areas.
So for the top one,
let's say I wanted the original
for this one right here you have the blue one
you can also change for this one as well.
We can have the original here as well,
or you can have the black and white here,
or you can also have the blue one here
or the duotone one here as well, so that is the advantage.
Now keep in mind, it's not limited to link smart objects
you can also work with embedded smart objects
in this one as well.
So even if you had let's say,
I'm just gonna keep it the way it is.
This is linked right in the background
I'm just gonna delete it.
And now let's go to the document
and I'm gonna place the kitchen as embedded.
Now, keep in mind if you just drag and drop,
it'll be embedded.
Now I'm gonna make it a little larger here.
I placed it at the bottom
now keep it in mind have a look at the logo
it's embedded but it still works have a look.
It still has all of those Layer Comps
you can just click on the dropdown and select that.
Now you can always directly convert
an embedded smart object to a linked smart object
by clicking on convert to linked.
Once you do that,
definitely a dialog box will show up
that'll ask you to save it separately
so that it can be linked instead of embedded.
So you can do that, or if you have a linked smart object
as you can see,
this is the link smart object you can also embed it.
So it'll not be a separate entity
it will be embedded into the document.
Now the disadvantage a little disadvantage,
and it's obvious with link smart object is let's say
you have a design and in that design,
you have an object which is linked, right?
And it's linked to a particular object
and by mistake you deleted that object,
which is a separate entity it's away now.
So now it will be a problem it'll show an error right there.
So to be safe if you want to embed something
which was a linked smart object previously,
and you want it to be a part of that document
in that case just simply click on embed
and as you can see this is a regular smart object.
It still has those Layer Comps, all right,
there you have it.
So those are some techniques of smart objects
that are essential for compositing and also designing.
I hope this lesson helped you
I will see you in my next one till then stay tuned
and make sure that you keep creating.