I use Photoshop 7 for graphic design for not-for-profit technical manuals, generally for specs and abstracts. Some of my photoshop files get thick with layers because i use clones of sets. For example, imagine a set of a dozen GUI images using various Blending Styles but constituting a single set of say, buttons and labels. These need to be cloned for a list of a dozen panels, each of which must have these GUI elements. So now i’ve got 144 independent images to display!
What i’d like to do — and i dont know if theres any software that even does this — is use aliases to these duplicated sets in my project graphics, which of course draws them faithfully, but the set’s layers are not part of the project file — they are linked files. The application simply displays the linked file. If i edit the linked file, it would of course change the view of all the aliases in the project file. Kinda like how Word updates and shows subdocs in a master file.
I know this is complicated to explain, but i hope i made it clear what im trying to do. Has anyone ever seen software that does this, new or old?
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