Keeping Two Copies of Original Image in File

If I select Edit Content on a Smart Object layer, and then select Duplicate Layer, will that put two copies of the original image in the file?
I used the Place command to bring high resolution images into a canvas of a much lower resolution. I've already spent a lot of time scaling and positioning the images on the canvas. But it turns out, I would now like to do certain editing on the original pixels of the images because of their greater resolution. Of course, that defeats the purpose of Smart Objects for non-destructive editing.
But there's no reason I can't keep two copies of an original image in a file, and destructively edit only one copy, right?

PECourtejoie wrote:
If you double-click the (non-linked) SO, you will be editing the embedded 6000 px document (and not the original file). If you select save as, you could save it as an independent document.
Now I see that double clicking on the Smart Object does the same thing as right clicking on the Smart Object layer and selecting Edit Contents. So that helps me understand what you have been saying.
PECourtejoie wrote:
I have to say that I'm a bit lost about "But I also want to save a copy of those original images without editing in the files."
I mean that I want to save the original, unedited images embedded in the same files as the files with all the work that I am doing. I am not linking to the original image files after I use the Place command.

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Here is what I mean.
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Excellent. Thanks fo the answer. I actually just tested it out earlier today with some garbage images.
deleted them from the hard disk--> opend lightrrom which obviously couldn't find them, closed lightrrom. Copied the images back to the local drive and opened lightrrom again. The images were there with all data intact.
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Gotta love Lightrrom!
thx again.
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Hi,
I have an example here that is intended to demonstrate the difference between Positioned and Flowed subforms: http://assure.ly/i8pSdy.
This shows how you can use a slider to change the dimensions of the image object.
I have extended this to an example with buttons to scale the image: http://assure.ly/i8ZI5Y
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Read up on Smart Objects. It looks like you have no idea as to how to create and use them.
Jut create a Smart Object from the layer containing whatever it image it is that you are "plugging into your template". But you do need to learn the application at its most basic levels.
Photoshop is a professional level application that makes no apologies for its very long and steep learning curve. You cannot learn Photoshop in a forum, one question at a time.
Or is it possible that you don't even have Photoshop proper but the stripped-down Photoshop Elements?"
If the latter is the case, you're in the wrong forum. This is not the Elements forum.
Here's the link to the forum you would want if you're working in Elements.:
https://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop_elements/content
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