: Open Photoshop Smart Object in Illustrator instead of Photoshop When I go Create New Layer => Convert to Smart Object => Double click on Smart Object thumbnail it opens in Photoshop as a .psb,

@Martha945

Highlight the Smart Object in question and go to the Properties panel. You should see both the original file extension and the option Convert to Linked. This allows you to save the Smart Object in it's original form. From there you can edit it in whatever program you like.

p.s. I'm using Photoshop CC for Mac

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@Karen819

In Windows, if you have Photoshop as default program for opening PDF/Illustrator, the vectors smart objects then will open in Photoshop always.

Just go to a PDF on Windows Explorer and choose default program: Illustrator.
Then when you double click in Photoshop in a vector smart object will open in Illustrator rather than Photoshop. I just find this myself and fix it.

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@Samaraweera207

Experienced this problem the last couple of days, somehow all .ai files were being opened with Acrobat by default - the solution was to create an AI file, right click - open with - set default program to illustrator, then I was able to edit vector smart objects in Illustrator again.

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@Murray976

You can not. The Smart object opens in the application which created it. Smart Objects are true to their originating application.

If the smart object was originally created in Photoshop, there is no way to tell it to open in Illustrator, and vice versa.

The Adobe documentation simply means the Smart Object will open in whatever app is appropriate, not that you can choose which app it opens in. The embedded information knows which application created the original artwork and will always revert to that application to edit the artwork.

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