What is smart filter

I am trying to copy filters from one layer to the other. I did this in my previous version before I upgraded to CS4. Now when I move the filter to a different layer it no longer is on the original layer. I understand I am supposing to be using smart filter. I don't know what this is or how to use it. Any advice or how do I use this? All I am trying to do is move my filter so I can include it on another layer. Thanks.

Filters originally were destructive, meaning they changed the elements they were applied to permanently.
And they were not visible in the Layers Panel, because they had simply changed the pixels there without leaving further traces (except the History).
When You are trying to move a Filter in the Layers Panel that means it must be applied as a Smart Filter, which can only be applied to Smart Objects and is nondestructive, meaning it can be edited later on and doesn’t change the original Layer content.
To duplicate the Smart Filter don’t just drag it to the other Layer, but alt-drag (or rather option-drag) it.
Edit: I had missed Josh’s post, which offers sound advice, indeed.

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This occurs on both of my two monitors, and it happens at every scale that I view the image at, including 100% actual pixels.
I'm using a Mac Pro Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz, with 10GB RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card. Running the latest Mac OS X, 10.6.3 and the latest Photoshop, CS% 12.0 x64.
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Ok thx, got the file and tested it.
First of all: Yes, I see the pattern, so it is obviously independent from both Hardware and operating system, I tested on Windows 7 / CS5X.
I can approve what c.pfaffenbichler found. Obviously we were wrong with our yesterdays findings that the transparency is not transparent. Instead, it is. It is barely visible, but testing it myself it seems to be "real" transparency, but at a very very low level, 1% max. I put a solid color behind that Smartobject.If you turn that layer visible, the grid disappears. To make sure that it realy is the bottom layer that shines through and not some kind of weird "new bug fixing other bug" thing, I put 2 layers behind the Smartobject, one pure black, one pure white. As you should expect, the image turns slightly (!) darker if you turn the black layer visible compared to the "only white layer visible" status.
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I seem to loose all the edits I made and it just brings up the HDR Pro options.
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I usually save the 32-bit version before flattening and converting to 16-bit. Then you can always go back to the original edits by opening the 32-bit file. But yes, granted, this is a two-step process.
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This is exactly what we're having trouble with right now! Adobe Send Ideas, please update and/or fix this soon!

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I just noticed the following problem after upgrading from LR4 to LR5:
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Message was edited by: keg415

I doubt it. When you operate on the layers level, all you have is pixel values of the individual layers without one layer knowing about the other. Filter chaining outside of what smart objects offer would require a much different approach to the whole matter and then we talk about a workflow similar to node-based compositing applications, where each processing operation is concatenated with the previous one in terms of how the code runs under the hood. Not something that will happen any time soon in PS, I think.
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If someone can help me to understand this, I would be very grateful.
If you put 2 or more smart filters on a single smart object layer, the effects of the filters are "combined" in a way that makes sense. Then why is it that if you have 2 smart object layers, each with one filter, there is no way to "blend" them in the same way? If Photoshop can blend the filters properly when they're on the same layer, why is there no ability to do that when they are on different layers? Am I missing something obvious here?
BTW, the reason I'm interested is because I'd like to have individual masks for each smart filter. I know I can do the nested smart object workaround, but that's rather a hassle and uses a lot of memory.
Thanks!

I doubt it. When you operate on the layers level, all you have is pixel values of the individual layers without one layer knowing about the other. Filter chaining outside of what smart objects offer would require a much different approach to the whole matter and then we talk about a workflow similar to node-based compositing applications, where each processing operation is concatenated with the previous one in terms of how the code runs under the hood. Not something that will happen any time soon in PS, I think.
Mylenium

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OMG Why doesnt the smart filter mask move with the smart object? Yikes Way PITA

If you look at the other tread about transform Again and smart Object layers you will find I found there seems to be two flavors of Transform and some bazar behaviors when it come to smart object layers. http://forums.adobe.com/message/4611500#4611500
However for this problem here I think I can not show you how to do it.
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OK
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