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Let's go ahead and use the smart objects in a practical application such as an ad and I'm gonna set this up with this teapot here. So I have this teapot and I'm going to first of all create a new layer and I'm going to fill this layer with black. And I'm also gonna right click in my document window and change that background to gray so we can actually see what we're working on here. Now what I'm gonna do is on this layer here is I'm going to rename this teapot and I'm going to also go to my layer menu and turn this guy into a smart object. Now what I want to do is duplicate that smart object and I'm gonna call this reflection and I'm gonna move it with my move tool over here and then I'll drag this layer underneath the other layer. I'm also going to lower the opacity on my reflection layer. And what I'm gonna do as well is resize this guy a little bit so I'll press command or control T, scale him down double click to accept that, move it up a little bit more and last but not least I'm gonna draw another layer called mirror and I'm going to draw a mirror on here with my polygonal lasso tool just a simple shape like this, something simple like that and I'm going to put a gradient in there so I'm going to make sure I have the black tool light and I'll drag to create a gradient like so and when I'm happy with that I'm gonna go to curves and I'm going to then really tweak this out a little bit so let me just play around with that a little bit and add a couple more of these bands of color and that's good enough. So I'll accept that and on my mirror I'm going to deselect that and I'm going to move that so that its going to be behind the reflection. So this is what I set up this is a little fake ad alright and I would have some text down here. So let's say the art director says I don't like that teapot you selected choose something else and I'm like man I spent all day on this. So instead of complaining I'll double click teapot and the dialog box will tell me it's going to open up a new file or rather the teapot and if I make any changes I should save it for the changes to take place. So this is the teapot so I'm gonna go to file open and on my desktop I have this tea folder and I'm gonna choose a different teapot. So I'm gonna select all, I'm gonna copy that and I'm gonna paste it in this document. I'm also going to grab my free transform tool and kind of scale it down to try to match the other document and I'm gonna squish it just a little bit, I'm gonna cheat today. So I'm gonna do all this kind of stuff like this and just get this in here so it fits then I'll double click to accept that and I'm gonna hide the original. Alright. I'm gonna, I'm gonna leave the orientation the way it is to so it's gonna face a completely different direction. So I'm gonna close this and then save it. And then in our other document, look at that, it's er it's changed the orientation changes, the artwork changes but it keeps all the special effects, it keeps the uh opacity, it keeps all your special effects. And that's the real beauty of a smart object. Now let me also show you a more complicated file that I created earlier called monster week. As you see here I have this spinosauruse toy, a shadow and a reflection in the water ok? Now same thing, art director says I want you to put a t-rex there instead so I'll double click on the dino, I'll get there, the, the file here and I have the t-rex already in place. So I'll hide spinosauruse, I'll select the t-rex, I'll close this file, save it and kablam, how easy is that. Even the shadow changes because I based the shadow off the dinosaur. I simply took the dinosaur, I duplicated that layer, I spun it upside down and what I did on this layer is I changed the uh blend mode to luminosity, I dropped the opacity down and I have the dinosaur in the water and he has an opacity of 36 and even a little bit of a layer mask on there, so I painted some parts away. And just by swapping out the artwork I was able to do this. Now just for fun and kicks let's go ahead and do this with a teapot. So I'm going to double click on the dino and I'm going to put a teapot in its place. I know it's crazy but that's just how I am now. And I think I already have it in the clipboard so I'm going to hide the dinosaurs and I am going to resize this pretty big and hopefully this crazy experiment works and I'm going to - actually I'll scale it some more. I'll, I'll deform it so it takes up more of that space. And I'm going to save this and hopefully it works so we'll find out in a minute. If not it'll be just another crazy experiment in my lab going awry. And as you see here the reflection changes, the reflection is in the water of the teapot and all I really need to do is tweak it a little bit. But it does work and that is how smart objects can really help you to work more efficiently in Photoshop, so you can take more chances once you design your ad in the way that you like it. You can always swap it out later on with other artwork.