From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects

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- [Narrator] So I'm just about done placing all of these images and applying the filters. But my youngest son, Joe, comes in and he says, "Oh Dad, that is just so embarrassing. "You cannot use that picture. "It's far too old. "Haven't you got a more recent one?" And I say, "Well yes, okay. "I've got this picture. "This was taken a few years later." "That's much better," he says. "Use that one instead." So do I have to go through the whole filters again? Well because it's a smart object, no I don't. Let's go onto this layer, select all, and copy. And now we can hide that layer again. I can select any one of these smart objects, double click it, and as you know, that opens it in the new window. And now we can paste in that picture that I've just used. Fortunately, their heads (mumbles) more in the same position. When I now save this and go back to our original, well what's happened is not only has it replaced the smart object in this picture with a filter attached, it has replaced the…

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