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open smartobject in photoshop

  • March 12, 2021
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Usually I work with smartobjekts e.g. I transform an to a Magazine so it fits.

In case I want to change the Artwork I doublick the SO and another PSD windiw opens where I can alter the Laxout without tranforming the Ad again to the Mag.

 

Now I klicked something and SO open in Illustrator and even after I changed the artwork there I cant save it and change it then. Help

 

Thanks Felix

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

The original is a Psd. The following Screenshot mockup_5.psd

I then doubleklick the layer

 

And usually it would open as a smart obejct in psd but it opens in AI

as a psb.

 

And in AI it even has the layers it had in the smart object ind psd.

 

And I just can save it as an AI or pdf from Illustrator

 

 


Again: 

What is the File Association (for Windows) or Open With-setting (for Mac) for psb on your computer? 

 

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c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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March 12, 2021

Vector Smart Objects are intended to open in Illustrator. 

What is the format of the opened SO – ai, pdf, …? 

What happens when you try to save the file? 

dexj29289924
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March 15, 2021

I know, if I paste for example a vector artwork from ai to psd as an smart object and then open it with a double klick from the psd file it opens back in ai and that is fine. 

But if I have a pixel layer or smart object which I transform into a smart objekt and then transform and distort it. for example an artwork onto a magazine. Then I could double click the SO and it would open in a new window in psd. I could alter the artwork, save it and back in the original file the layer is stil transformed but the artwrok is editable.

Before the last update this was possible. Now it opens in AI as a PSB and i cant save it.

c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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March 15, 2021

What is the File Association (for Windows) or Open With-setting (for Mac) for psb on your computer? 

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