From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects
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Working with multiple layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects
Working with multiple layers
- [Narrator] One of the great things about Smart Object is that we can incorporate multiple layers within them. So let's step backwards to undo that painting operation and let's open up this Smart Object once again. Here, we'll make a new layer. We'll set this layer to make a Clipping Mask with the layer underneath so that painting on it will only show up where it overlaps the lower layer and let's change the Mode from Normal to Color. Now we can use the regular brush tool to paint in red over this chair and it'll only change it where we paint over it. We could close it, to go back to the original or, if we choose, we can leave it open. We can just save it and when we go back to the original, there are the changes we made to the contents. When we look at this, we can see that our red's actually leaked out over the edge onto his boot, onto the edge of the chair. Not acceptable. We can go back into our Smart Object, switch to the Eraser tool and this allows us to erase those errors…
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