From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects

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Replacing the contents

Replacing the contents

- [Narrator] With the grid now in place, it's time to swap out those contents. We'll double-click the Smart Object to open the new window and now let's put our artwork in there. The file can_art.psd contains some sample artwork that I've created already. So let's grab all of these elements. We'll click on the bottom layer. Hold the shift key and click on the top one to select all of them. Now let's drag them from this document into our Smart Object psb. And again, when we release the mouse button, they appear in here. This is much too big. So let's make these smaller. We'll use Free Transform and shrink the artwork to fit the space. That looks fairly good. I don't like the way that we're getting all these patches showing through behind the artwork there. So let's make a new layer. We'll call it hole filler. And with the Brush tool, I'll select a hard-edge brush, sample some of this orange and simply paint in behind there. Now when we save this artwork, we can go back to our original…

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