Smart Objects Will Change Your Editing Forever

Learn what smart objects are, how to create one, and their five primary uses in photography.

In this tutorial, I’m going to explain the basics of smart objects, and go over five uses for them in Photoshop.

A smart object is essentially a Photoshop file that’s within one of your layers in Photoshop. It’s sort of like a file in a file…

You can create one by simply selecting a Photoshop layer and clicking “Create Smart Object.” But their use cases are where things get complicated. Let’s jump into Photoshop!