Unless I'm misunderstanding you, this will not work. I'm not certain that I made it clear that synced or linked SO's only work if they are together. You can't convert multiple layers into smart objects and have them work together. Each converted layer would be it's own free standing SO. SO's must be associated by syncing or linking.
The only way this works is if he converts the newly created document into a SO and duplicates it. Then replaces all the other HD/SD symbols with the duplicates. Please forgive me if this is what you're trying to say!!!!
Converting the layers that are already created HD's will only make them a smart object file that's not synced or linked to any other files. Going to layer and edit contents will only open the PSB file containing the already created HD's and allow you to edit them. You would have to edit all of them within the SO. So there's really no reason to convert them into a SO.
Yes, but you only edited one of the four. The idea is to be able to edit all of the flame symbols with one simple edit of the SO.
Here is a Twitter symbol..........one layer.
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[ATTACH=full]119473[/ATTACH]
Now I've converted that one Twitter Symbol layer to a SO.
I will duplicate that original and now converted SO layer into four copies.
Each of these copies are synced to the same SO which is the original Twitter Symbol layer.
[ATTACH=full]119474[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=full]119475[/ATTACH]
Now I will double click on the original SO..........or any of the synced copies and edit the color, then save the changes.
This now changes the color of all the synced copies.
[ATTACH=full]119476[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=full]119477[/ATTACH]
If I group them, and duplicate the group, I can now edit all the copies contained within the groups by editing the original Twitter Symbol layer SO.
[ATTACH=full]119478[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=full]119479[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=full]119480[/ATTACH]
