The Photoshop Productivity Series: The Productive Workflow

Copying Smart Filters

It is possible to copy a Smart Filter from one document to another, but it’s not quite as easy as dragging and dropping. In a tabbed document view, you cannot drag and drop a Smart Filter. To do that, you need a tiled document view. Go to Window > Arrange and choose any of the Tile window options (Figure 5.9).

Figure 5.9 To copy Smart Filters, arrange the document windows side by side.

Note

This function works only if the second document is also a Smart Object.

The other slightly odd catch is that the Layer thumbnail must be active—rather than the Smart Filter as you might expect (Figure 5.10). You can then click the ...