Layer Instances

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Erico Franco
Aug 8, 2005
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Is possible to create a "Layer Instances" Element on adobe photoshop?

for example:

imagine that I has a layer and I copy/paste 10 other layer-instances from the first one and past into the scene.

This other 10 references are linked to the first layer in a way that all changes that I do to the first layer, reflects automatically to the other 10 layers.

There is some feature similar to this in Photoshop CS?

thanks

Erico Franco
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Kingdom
Aug 8, 2005
Erico Franco <""ericofranco \"@ ig.com.br"> wrote in news::

Is possible to create a "Layer Instances" Element on adobe photoshop?
for example:

imagine that I has a layer and I copy/paste 10 other layer-instances from the first one and past into the scene.

This other 10 references are linked to the first layer in a way that all changes that I do to the first layer, reflects automatically to the other 10 layers.

There is some feature similar to this in Photoshop CS?

thanks

Erico Franco

Layer Styles can be copied from one layer to another

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f=Ma well, nearly…
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Erico Franco
Aug 8, 2005
Kingdom wrote:

Layer Styles can be copied from one layer to another

But the object can’t..

What I want is to duplicate a object, linking the copies to the original one: imagine a scene that I create a object that is like a "P"

——
P

——

So I create several copies of the P object linked to the first one:

——
P P P
P P P
P P P
——

Now I change only the first one "P" and what I want is that automatically all other objects change with out need to copy/paste everything again,

so if I just change the first "P" to a "X",

——
X P P
P P P
P P P
——

all other objects that are linked would automatically be updated in the scene:

——
X X X
X X X
X X X
——

Is that possible in Photoshop or this feature is not available?

thanks

Erico
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Kingdom
Aug 8, 2005
Erico Franco <""ericofranco \"@ ig.com.br"> wrote in news:woCdnbLKn- :

Kingdom wrote:

Layer Styles can be copied from one layer to another

But the object can’t..

What I want is to duplicate a object, linking the copies to the
original
one: imagine a scene that I create a object that is like a "P"
——
P

——

So I create several copies of the P object linked to the first one:
——
P P P
P P P
P P P
——

Now I change only the first one "P" and what I want is that automatically all other objects change with out need to copy/paste everything again,

so if I just change the first "P" to a "X",
——
X P P
P P P
P P P
——

all other objects that are linked would automatically be updated in
the
scene:

——
X X X
X X X
X X X
——

Is that possible in Photoshop or this feature is not available?
thanks

Erico

I’m not aware of that facility in Photoshop, but why not just duplicate the finished layer?

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f=Ma well, nearly…
EF
Erico Franco
Aug 9, 2005
Kingdom wrote:

I’m not aware of that facility in Photoshop, but why not just duplicate the finished layer?

Yes, I think that Photoshop does not has this feature.

The problem is that there is about 100 identical objects on the scene, and after every change in one object, I need to change all other 99 objects.

yes I can duplicate the layer, but for each change I would need to duplicate them all and place it all again in different places… this is the problem.

A workaround would be a way to link a layer to a external file, so I could link all these objects to a external .psd file is this possible in Photoshop? So changes in this external .psd file would reflect to all 1000 objects and my problem would be solved.

thanks.
K
Kingdom
Aug 9, 2005
Erico Franco <""ericofranco \"@ ig.com.br"> wrote in news::

Kingdom wrote:

I’m not aware of that facility in Photoshop, but why not just duplicate the finished layer?

Yes, I think that Photoshop does not has this feature.

The problem is that there is about 100 identical objects on the scene, and after every change in one object, I need to change all other 99 objects.

yes I can duplicate the layer, but for each change I would need to duplicate them all and place it all again in different places… this is the problem.

A workaround would be a way to link a layer to a external file, so I could link all these objects to a external .psd file is this possible in Photoshop? So changes in this external .psd file would reflect to all 1000 objects and my problem would be solved.

thanks.

PS7 and up have Java script capability, so its possible everything could be achieved using a script. I would sugest contacting Adobe.

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f=Ma well, nearly…
EF
Erico Franco
Aug 10, 2005
Kingdom wrote:

PS7 and up have Java script capability, so its possible everything could be achieved using a script. I would sugest contacting Adobe.

Yes, thanks for the tip Kingdom.

I take a look at script stuff and I think that it can help me a lot.

also I think that the new feature "Smart Object" from CS2 (PS9) is what I am looking for.

thanks for your time.

regards

Erico

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