Photoshop User - USA (2021-02)

If you have a Photoshop question that you’d like Terry White

to answer in the pages of Photoshop User magazine, send it

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but getting multiple images into a library one

by one via Photoshop isn’t fun.

There’s a way around having to open them all

just to add them individually. Launch Photoshop,

open the Libraries panel (Window>Libraries),

and select the CC Library to which you want

to add multiple images. Then, to make the next

part easier, switch to Application Frame (Win-

dow>Application Frame) if you’re not in that mode

already. Now find those images in your operating

system. Select as many images as you want to

add, drag them straight to the Libraries panel,

and they’ll be added to the CC Library you’re

currently viewing.

Q I’ve been told that I should use smart

objects whenever possible to work

nondestructively, but when I convert

a layer to a smart object then I can’t

do a lot of things to it such as use the

Healing Brush. Why?

A Smart objects are awesome and should be used

whenever possible, but if you need to alter pixels

(healing, painting, cloning, etc.), then you need

a regular layer. Think of a smart object like a Tup-

perware container. It keeps what’s inside protected

from the elements. You can write with a sharpie

on the outside, but that doesn’t put any marks on

the contents. Consequently, you can’t eat what’s

inside until you take it out. Smart objects are great

for running filters, masking, scaling, etc. When you

need to do pixel-level editing, it’s still best to make

a copy of the layer. n

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