9 Replies Latest reply: Jul 22, 2012 11:09 PM by c.pfaffenbichler RSS

    How to get PS5 to update smart image from an external tiff

    Astara_ Community Member

      I originally want to create some text and add effects to it.  But as I add effects or, especially, scale, it, I find I need to go back and change the text image (make lines of the characters wider, change proportions...etc.

       

      So I imported my text as a smart image and began work on it -- but when I went and change the original, the changes were not reflected -- I closed the document I was

      working on and re-opened it, just to be sure -- maybe it didn't detect the file had been changed.  No difference.

       

      It seems it makes a separate copy from my original and uses that and the only way to update it, is to delete an old imported smart layer, and add in a new one and re-apply  all the layer effects to the new layer (or transfer them from the old later before deleting it).

       

      Seems a bit awkward...Shouldn't the smart image allow me to include something

      externally, and as it is imported, it imports a bit map of the current content sized to the appropriate "frame" for the imported layer?

       

      That's another issue -- can't just copy layer effects -- have to be sure to reapply any cropping or resizing you did to the smart image (presuming the layer can take a zoom level and a mask -- maybe it can't do that either?)...since you can distort it, I would assume so (remember reading in help that layer effects applied to smart objects were turned off while you distorted layers, or something like that...)...

       

      Is this possible?  Or how does one include dynamic content in a picture at edit time (NOT AT DISPLAY TIME -- this ain't HTML! ;-) ).....

       

      Thanks,

      -linda