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Layers change simultaneously without them being connected (photopshop)

  • January 1, 2024
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I downloaded a mockup of a bussinesscard. I want to use it for the cards of a boardgame I made. In the original file there was a front and a back of the bussinesscard. Now I want all the cards to be diffrent, but when I try to change the cards all the 'backs' of the cards change to the same card. Same with the front, I can only change it to one other card. The other layers will automaticly change with it. The layers are not connected. They are grouped, but removing them out of the group doesnt change anything.

I want to change all the cards separetly and give them all a different front or back, whithout making new layers and start all over again because I have to make all the shadows included myself. Than there is no point of the mock-up. I hope someone can help.

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    Correct answer Myra Ferguson

    A Smart Object is a container for the layers inside it. If you double-click it, it opens it as a separate file that is embedded in your main Photoshop document. When you make a change to it and save, it updates all the instances of that Smart Object in your main document--as you have seen. These additional instances of the Smart Object are copies that were created by a standard duplication of the layer (dragging it to the + button at the bottom of the Layers panel, selecting the layer and going to Duplicate Layer... in the Layers panel menu, or going to Layer > New > Layer via Copy...).

     

    You can make separate versions of the Smart Object that you can modify separately by selecting the Smart Object in the Layers panel, going to the Layers panel menu (the hamburger menu in the upper right of the panel), and selecting New Smart Object via Copy. Then edit that new copy of the original Smart Object. 

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    Myra Ferguson
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    Myra FergusonCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    January 1, 2024

    A Smart Object is a container for the layers inside it. If you double-click it, it opens it as a separate file that is embedded in your main Photoshop document. When you make a change to it and save, it updates all the instances of that Smart Object in your main document--as you have seen. These additional instances of the Smart Object are copies that were created by a standard duplication of the layer (dragging it to the + button at the bottom of the Layers panel, selecting the layer and going to Duplicate Layer... in the Layers panel menu, or going to Layer > New > Layer via Copy...).

     

    You can make separate versions of the Smart Object that you can modify separately by selecting the Smart Object in the Layers panel, going to the Layers panel menu (the hamburger menu in the upper right of the panel), and selecting New Smart Object via Copy. Then edit that new copy of the original Smart Object. 

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    Anita344380828agsAuthor
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    January 1, 2024

    I have now made layers of the smart object, change the card and make it into a smart object again. That works, but I wonder if there is a quicker or easier way.

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