PS Smart objects > smart files 66 Responses

Last post: 1 year ago | Thread started: Sep 21, 07, 5:58 a.m.

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• Bottlerocket

  Not knowing much about the in-depth working of smart Objects in P-shop.

  What were trying to achieve is have a series files that comprise of certain modules of a site(e.g. Navigation module, promo modules, Main image module, etc)

  These modules then form part of a series of other pages we've mocked up for a site.

  Ideally, what we'd like to happen is that if there is an amend on the navigation module, this will update all the other PSD's that we've imported this module in.

  Possible? Easy? RTFM? STFU?

  Sep 21, 07, 5:58 a.m. – Permalink

• testpilot

  It seems like it would work and be fairly easy to implement. You may have to include boxes with no fill or stroke to force the registration of the items from Illustrator to Photoshop, but nothing you couldn't figure out in minutes.

  

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  Dog-earSep 21, 07, 6:12 a.m. – Permalink

• Bottlerocket

  Is it possible to do it Photoshop document to photoshop document..so linking PSD files within another PSD?

  

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  Dog-earSep 21, 07, 6:14 a.m. – Permalink

• Fariska

  Not possible (in cs2, dunno in cs3).
  Since the PS file is saved with all the smart objects stuffed in, so every smart object belongs to the file where it is in.

  Anyway i'd like too having "classes" in photoshop. Next thing to ask for?

  

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  Dog-earSep 21, 07, 6:14 a.m. – Permalink

• kev_charlton

  No, its not possible i dont think...i tried the same thing a while back. It is something that you can do in fireworks however...

  

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  Dog-earSep 21, 07, 6:18 a.m. – Permalink

• testpilot

  You can't link the 'modules' ala InDesign, but you could have a series of master documents in Illustrator that you could lift revised graphics from via cut and paste. A bit of a manual process, but it would work.

  

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  Dog-earSep 21, 07, 6:21 a.m. – Permalink

• Bottlerocket

  Its more what Fariska was saying. The idea of having file 'classes' of which instances are created throughout a series of files you are working on.

  

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  Dog-earSep 21, 07, 6:58 a.m. – Permalink