Hey everyone, Steve Patterson here from Photoshop Essentials.com!
In this video, I'll show you how to edit a smart object, and how to replace its contents, in
Photoshop!
Two powerful advantages of using smart objects are that we can edit their contents, and we
can even replace their contents, and have our changes instantly appear in the document.
Editing the contents is great for when you want to keep the same image inside the smart
object and just change its appearance.
But we can also replace the contents with a completely new image, making smart objects
perfect for creating reusable templates!
Let's see how it works.
I'll be using Photoshop CC but everything here is fully compatible with Photoshop CS6.
If you're not yet familiar with smart objects, be sure to check out the previous video in this
series where I cover what smart objects are and how to create them.
And with that, let's get started!
To help us learn about editing and replacing a smart object's contents, I'm going to
convert an image into a smart object and then place it inside a frame.
Once it's in the frame, we'll learn how to edit the image inside the smart object,
and then how to replace it with a different image.
Here's the first image I'll be using.
This is the frame that I'll be placing the other image into.
I downloaded all of the images for this tutorial from Adobe Stock.
If we look in the Layers panel, we see that I also have a second image sitting on a layer
above it.
I'll turn the second image on by clicking the top layer's visibility icon.
And now we see the second image.
I'll convert this image into a smart object and then place it inside the frame.
So to place the image into the frame, we first need to select the area inside the frame.
I'll turn the top image off so we can see the frame by once again clicking the layer's
visibility icon.
Then, I'll choose Photoshop's Polygonal Lasso Tool from the Toolbar.
By default, it's nested behind the standard Lasso Tool, so I'll right-click, or Control-click
on a Mac, on the Lasso Tool and I'll choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the fly-out
menu.
To select the area inside the frame, I'll zoom in on the image, and then all we need
to do is click with the Polygonal Lasso Tool in each of the four corners, starting in the
upper left, then the upper right, down to the bottom right, and then in the bottom left.
To complete the selection, I'll click again on the starting point in the upper left corner.
I'll zoom out to fit the image on the screen by going up to the View menu and choosing
Fit on Screen.
And now we see the selection outline around the inside of the frame.
With the frame selected, I'll turn the top image back on, and the same selection outline
now appears in front of the second image.
In a moment, we're going to place this image into the selection using a layer mask.
But before we do, we first need to convert the layer into a smart object.
To do that, I'll right-click or Control-click on a Mac directly on the layer, and then I'll
choose Convert to Smart Object from the menu.
A smart object icon appears in the layer's preview thumbnail, telling us that the layer
is now a smart object.
To place the smart object into the selection, we'll use a layer mask.
Click the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel.
Photoshop converts the selection into a layer mask, and now the image appears inside the
frame.
And in the Layers panel, we see the new layer mask thumbnail beside the preview thumbnail.
The reason we converted the layer into a smart object before adding the layer mask was to
keep the smart object and the mask separate from each other.
If we had added the mask and then converted the layer to a smart object, the mask would
have become part of the smart object.
We need to keep them separate, so we converted the layer to a smart object first and then
added the mask.
And the reason we need to keep them separate is so we can resize and reposition the smart
object within the mask.
To do that, click the link icon between the smart object's preview thumbnail and the
layer mask thumbnail.
This unlinks the smart object from its mask so we can resize and reposition the smart
object without affecting the size or position of the mask itself.
Select the smart object by clicking its thumbnail, and then go up to the Edit menu in the Menu
Bar and choose Free Transform.
To resize the image within the frame, press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard, and
then click and drag any of the corner handles.
The Shift key locks the aspect ratio of the image as you drag so you don't distort the
original shape.
To move the image inside the frame, click anywhere inside the Free Transform box and
drag the image into place.
When you're done, click the checkmark in the Options Bar to accept it.
So now that we've placed the image into the frame as a smart object, let's learn
how to edit the smart object's contents.
Think of a smart object as a Photoshop document within your Photoshop document.
And pretty much anything we can do in the main document, we can do in a smart object.
To open a smart object and edit its contents, make sure your smart object is selected in
the Layers panel.
Then go up to the Layer menu in the Menu Bar, choose Smart Objects, and then choose Edit
Contents.
Or, a faster way to open a smart object is to simply double-click on its thumbnail in
the Layers panel.
The smart object opens in its own separate document.
If we look in the tabs along the top, we see that the name of my smart object's document
is "Photo.psb".
Smart objects use a special type of document known as a PSB file, which stands for "Photoshop
Big".
The name of the document (in this case, "Photo") is based on the name of your layer before
you converted it to a smart object, which is why it's a good idea to rename your layers
before converting them.
Since smart objects are actual Photoshop documents, there's really no limit to what we can do
with them.
All of Photoshop's tools, commands, filters, and other features, like layers and adjustment
layers, are available to us for editing a smart object's contents.
Let's look at a few quick examples of what we can do.
Let's say I want to flip the image inside the frame so that she's facing the opposite
direction.
I can do that by flipping the image in my smart object.
I'll go up to the Edit menu, then I'll choose Transform, and then Flip Horizontal.
This flips the image horizontally.
To have our changes appear in the main document, we need to save and close the smart object's
document.
To save it, go up to the File menu and choose Save.
Then to close the smart object, go back up to the File menu and choose Close.
Back in the main document, the smart object in the frame updates to show the flipped version
of the image.
Now just like when editing a normal Photoshop document, it's best to edit a smart object
non-destructively and avoid making any permanent changes.
One of the easiest ways to do that is by taking advantage of adjustment layers.
I'll reopen my smart object by double-clicking on is thumbnail in the Layers panel.
The contents reopen in the same "Photo.psb" document, and with the change that I made
previously.
I'll flip the image back to the way it was originally by once again going up to the Edit
menu, choosing Transform, and then choosing Flip Horizontal.
This flips the image back to its original direction.
So let's say I want to convert the image from color to black and white.
Since smart objects are Photoshop documents, we can use adjustment layers inside them just
like we can in a normal document.
To convert the image to black and white, I'll click on the New Fill or Adjustment Layer
icon at the bottom of the Layers panel, and then I'll choose Black & White from the
list.
A Black & White adjustment layer appears above the photo, and we see the image now in black
and white.
You can customize the black and white conversion using the sliders in the Properties panel,
but for our purposes, I'll stick with the default settings.
To save my changes, I'll go up to the File menu and choose Save.
And then to close the smart object, I'll go back up to the File menu and choose Close.
And back in the main document, we see that the smart object in the frame has once again
updated, this time showing my black and white version of the image.
What if, instead of converting it to black and white, I just want to adjust the colors
in the image to cool them down a bit?
For that, we can use a Photo Filter adjustment layer.
I'll once again reopen my smart object by double-clicking on its thumbnail.
And then in the smart object's document, I'll delete my Black & White adjustment
layer by dragging it down onto the Trash Bin at the bottom of the Layers panel.
Since adjustment layers are non-destructive, deleting the adjustment layer instantly restores
the original colors in the image.
To add a Photo Filter adjustment layer, I'll again click the New Fill or Adjustment Layer
icon, and this time, I'll choose Photo Filter from the list.
The new adjustment layer appears above the image.
In the Properties panel, I'll choose one of the cooling filters from the Filter menu.
This cools down the image by adding more blue.
We can toggle the adjustment layer on and off to see a before and after comparison by
clicking its visibility icon.
Here's the image before applying the Photo Filter, and here's after.
Again before, and after.
I'll save my changes by going up to the File menu and choosing Save.
Then I'll close the smart object by going up to the File menu and choosing Close.
Back in the main document, the image in the frame now appears with the Photo Filter applied.
And that's the basics of how to edit a smart object.
So now that we know how to edit the contents, let's learn how to replace the contents
of a smart object.
Replacing the contents means we can use smart objects as templates for different layouts
or effects.
We already have our smart object in the frame, so let's see how to replace the image inside
the smart object with a different image.
First, make sure you have your smart object selected in the Layers panel.
There's no need to open it.
We just need to select it.
To replace its contents, go up to the Layer menu, choose Smart Objects, and then choose
Replace Contents.
Navigate to the image that you want to replace the contents with.
Click on it to select it, and then click Place.
And just like that, the original image in the smart object is replaced with the new
image.
The only problem is that the new image is too big to fit in the frame.
So to resize it, I'll do the same thing I did with my previous image by going up to
the File menu and then choosing Free Transform.
This places the Free Transform box and handles around the image.
But because this new image is so big, some of the handles extend off the screen.
To fit them on the screen, I'll go up to the View menu and choose Fit on Screen.
Then I'll press and hold my Shift key as I drag the corner handles to resize the image
so it fits in the frame.
Again, the Shift key locks the aspect ratio of the image in place.
Then I'll click on the image and drag it into position.
To accept it, I'll click the checkmark in the Options Bar.
And finally, to zoom back in, I'll go back up to the View menu and I'll once again
choose Fit on Screen.
And now, after replacing the contents, the new image in the smart object fits nicely
in the frame.
And there we have it!
That's how to edit a smart object, and how to replace its contents, in Photoshop!
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Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.
I'm Steve Patterson from Photoshop Essentials.com.
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