I’m used to using the Links window in Illustrator and InDesign. In Photoshop (CS6), I have some linked images, added using
File > Place
, which look like this on the Layers window:
So far, so good.
I want to swap them for different images, and/or force them to update – but I can’t find a straightforward way to do this.
Just pasting the new image in is not ideal – they’re part of a video animation updated in a different application, and creating new layers each time would create a lot of hassle. I’m looking to do the same sort of things you can do in Illustrator and InDesign with the
Relink
andUpdate...
buttons.
Answer
It looks like, in Photoshop-land, Relink
is called Replace contents
and is found through right-click on the layer:
I can’t find any direct equivalent of the Illustrator/InDesign update button. Right now I’m just re-replacing every time the file changes, which is far from ideal.
It seems like Photoshop linked images only update if you edit them in Photoshop using “edit contents” – and “edit contents” loads the version stored in memory, not the file on the drive.
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