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How to make a smart object editable?

Explorer ,
Nov 17, 2019 Nov 17, 2019

It used to be B click enter. 

 

Now you hide it somewhere users can't find eh? I see.

 

Stop mess with what works. I beg you. When adding new functions please don't takeaway what works. Your users are professionals use these tools everyday, don't mess with their work flow please. 

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Explorer ,
Nov 17, 2019 Nov 17, 2019

Ok, now it's layer>rasterize>smart object. 

Three clicks without shortcut, it used to take half a second and many ways to do it. Now it's three menu clicks like some hidden fancy laser generator.

Even selection>layer via copy makes another retardified smart object. (oh ok, only occasionally does that, so it's a bug, not even a feature)

Seriously>moron>blown my mind.

Fire whoever the UI/UX person please, he seriously have no idea what he's doing. 

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 17, 2019 Nov 17, 2019

Convert Layer to Smart object

go to Layer menu

layer >  rasterize  > smart object 

Convert  to Smart object

Edit Smart object

Layer > smart object > edit contents

or 

Double click on active layer  From Layer panelAnnotation 2019-11-18 074014f.jpg

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Community Expert ,
Nov 17, 2019 Nov 17, 2019

Are you a troll.  In Photoshop B is the shortcut for the Brush tool.  Click Enter operation depends on what the cursor is is over.

 

To open a smart object to edit it you double click on the smart object layer content thumbnail in the layers palette or uset the Layer menu ite the  efit the layers object.

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A temp work document will open in ACR, illustrator or  Photoshop so you can edit the object and save the changes when you commit the changes Photoshop will update the smart object layer object.

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Explorer ,
Nov 17, 2019 Nov 17, 2019

1 I know the double click to edit the smart object in saperate tag, great funciton; 

2 For those you don't know, it used to be: take brush/pencil/smudge/etc tool and click on the image area of a smart layer, a dialog pop out saying if you wish to edit this smart layer you gotta resterize, yes or no. Which has been the quickest way to bake smart object to pixels. 

NOW, some don't know what they doing UI/UX designer made an active effort to remove that function. And used to be half second job turned into three menu clicks.

Force user work more for the same result? Great idea! That displays someone is really lazy and incompetent at their job and working to look busy. 

The company makes most pro design tools themself are a mess at design. Subtle irony. 

 

 

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Community Expert ,
Nov 18, 2019 Nov 18, 2019
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Not all smart objects will open in Photoshop when you use edit content. Some will open in ACR others in Illistrator and the others in Photoshop in a new floating window or TAB.

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