How to break apart smart objects in Photoshop

Alright, this video, uh, what we want to do is we want  to unpack some of these smart objects or library items. It doesn't matter which, and I want to get them, we know  that this, um,  item from an earlier tutorial is if I open it up,  it's actually a couple of layers. If I go inside, there's two layers. Let's say there's another one I'm gonna add just for fun,  some, uh, curves or levels. Okay? So there's another adjustment layer in there.

I'm gonna do some fixing for no good reason. Save it, close it. Okay. And okay, but back in my upwards here. Okay, this file, you can see it's, oh,  it's all hidden inside of that. It's really nice.

But  sometimes you're like, actually come out. Just show yourself. I want you in there. What you can do is you can right click the  name and there's this one here. It says, convert to layers. Insignificant name or, you know, not very exciting  or, I dunno, I find it really useful.

Convert to layer just means, hey, the problem is it's going  to, going back at its like full transformation. You know it was, 'cause it's a big image that we scale down  to the smaller size and it's gonna go, here you go. There's the big quality version that was  inside and that's really helpful. Gives you the full, full quality one's. Put it in a nice little group. There's the levels, there's that first layer, another layer,  just a handy little quick, little trick.

Okay? It's a one way street,  so maybe I might wanna duplicate that smart object first. And it doesn't matter if it's a smart object  or a library object, it doesn't matter. You can right click it and go to that one there. Uh, frame to layers, convert  to layers, and that should work. Alright, that's it.

Short one. Good one. I'll see you in the next video.