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

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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[laudenclear]

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

[Yasir]

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 👍

[EliteDronesAZ]

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

[SuperTrooper]

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

[DezaviProductions]

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!

[DariaCircus]

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

[veroarcila]

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

[reginejensen]

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

[Imran-pirs]

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

[klausnielsen]

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

[ronydey]

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

[briankimathi]

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

[clairegsi]

Great Thankyou. That was very helpful x

[naatali]

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

[carebear]

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

[patricianadarajah]

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

[John_]

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

[Pondicoco]

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!!!

[ayriniemi]

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 ;)

[baddogastro]

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