Placing complex images into a montage

I'm creating a montage from a number of PSD files I've been working on.
Normally I just stamp each source image and drag the layer into the
montage, and I started doing that here. Then I needed to edit one of the
sources, and I started wondering: is there a way to place a PSD image into
another PSD image such that if the source is changed, the destination (the
montage in my case) automatically updates?

 

What you describe is called 'Object Linking and Embedding' and Photoshop
does not support it. You might be able to do it with a DTP program that
recognises Photoshop format (e.g. Serif PagePlus) but I don't think that is
what you are after.

John

 

You can link all layers of the psd you want to bring into another, then
put them in a set and drag the set into the other psd. When you set the
blending mode of the set to 'Normal' instead of the default setting
'Pass through' and you have your psd in a psd.

HTH

 

is there a way to place a PSD image into

No.

You might find it helpful to do your montage in a layout program that can
handle Photoshop files, such as Adobe InDesign, if you want that functionality.

 

John

I don't think Page Plus will open a Photoshop file!!

Harry

 

I don't think Page Plus will open a Photoshop file!!

A page layout program does not "open" any kind of graphics file. What it does
is allow you to *place* a graphic file on a page. You edit the individual
images in Photoshop, place the montage in a page-layout progam, and whenever
you change one of the images, the change is reflected in the montage.

This is how professional brochures, ads, and so on are done: the images are
created or edited in Photoshop, logos are done in Illustrator, then the images
and logos are assembled and type is added in a page-layout program.

 

place the montage in a page-layout program

O.K. I don't think Page Plus will recognise a PS file, or at least I could
not get it to do so?
are you saying it will?

Harry

 

O.K. I don't think Page Plus will recognise a PS file, or at least I could

I have no idea; I've never used it. InDesign will, though.