Using Smart Objects in Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop CC - page 240

6 Drag the Hue slider to the left to approximately the -180 mark, or type -180 in the Hue text field. This
adjusts the color of the butterfly to blue. Click the Properties tab to close the panel.
7 Choose File > Save. This is the crucial step. As noted in the dialog box in step 4, you must save the cur-
rent document without renaming it. Choose File > Close to close the image.
8 In the ps1201_work.psd file, notice that the blue butterfly has been updated. This is because Butterfly 4
is a Smart Object layer connected, or linked, to the original file, which is now embedded inside the
ps1201_work.psd file.
Suppose you need to adjust the settings of the hue/saturation layer again; you can return to the adjust-
ment layer to make any necessary changes.
9 Double-click the Butterfly 4 layer thumbnail to reopen the source file. The warning dialog box you saw
previously appears. Click OK.
This dialog box can be turned off by clicking the Don't Show Again check box in the lower-
left corner.
10 In your layers panel, double-click the Layer thumbnail icon on the Hue/Saturation layer to reopen the
Properties panel with the Hue/Saturation options visible.
Double-click the Layer thumbnail icon to reopen the properties panel for Hue/Saturation.
11 In the Properties panel, click and drag the Saturation slider to -60, or type -60 in the Saturation text
field. This tones down the bright blue. Click the Properties tab to close this panel.
12 Choose File > Save, and then File > Close to close the file. As before, the butterfly in your work im-
age has been automatically updated.
Using this combination of adjustment layers and Smart Objects gives you tremendous flexibility with
your layers. Adjustment layers and Smart Objects encourage you to experiment without fear of destroy-
ing the integrity of the original image. As you will see in the next exercise, this ability to edit the con-
tents of a Smart Object has even more power when you have multiple Smart Objects.
Modifying multiple Smart Object layers
Another benefit of Smart Object layers is that multiple layers can be modified at the same time.
1 In the main composition, ps1201_work.psd , click and drag the Butterfly 4 layer down and release it on
the Create a New Layer button ( ) in the Layers panel to duplicate it. Select the Move tool ( ), then
click and drag the copy to the far left, next to the yellow butterfly.