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Place assets in a Photoshop document

Place assets in a Photoshop document - Photoshop Tutorial

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Place assets in a Photoshop document

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Now we've already seen how we can place images into existing documents by dragging and dropping them into Photoshop but of course there's other ways of doing this as well. If I go back to this previous document we can just go to the file menu and we can actually choose place embedded or place linked. Now these are both useful and in the exam it's important to know the difference between them and the implications of using either of them so if I choose place embedded first for instance and I choose one of these images that we've seen before when I choose place it's going to be placing it into the existing document as a new smart object layer. I just have to accept the placement by either clicking on commit here on the top or pressing enter on the keyboard and now it's a separate layer which we can easily move around as we've seen it already before but the most important thing is that whenever you use the place embedded feature this new layer will be stored within this document. So if…

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