Managing digital assets stored as components and packaged files

A system for providing efficient synchronization of digital assets within a local component device, the system comprising:

• one or more computer-readable memories including a local digital image layer database on a user client device having a digital image mapping that indicates where local digital image layers making up a digital image and locally stored within the local digital image layer database locations of each of the local digital image layers on the user client device, wherein the local digital image layers are locally stored as independent files distributed across the local digital image layer database on the user client device;
• and
• at least one processor configured to cause the system to:
• generate, on the user client device, a composite digital image from the local digital image layers by:
• copying the local digital image layers making up the digital image from within the local digital image layer database on the user client device to form a composite digital image outside of the local digital image layer database on the user client device;
• and
• generating a digital image manifest for the composite digital image indicating the copied local digital image layers and further indicating that the copied local digital image layers are locally stored as part of the composite digital image on the user client device;
• update, at the local digital image layer database, the digital image mapping from indicating where the local digital image layers making up the digital image are locally stored within the local digital image layer database on the user client device to indicating where the copied local digital image layers of the composite digital image are locally stored on the user client device;
• receive a client device interaction modifying the digital image;
• determine, in response to the client device interaction modifying the digital image, one or more modified digital image layers and one or more unmodified digital image layers from among the local digital image layers;
• and
• update the composite digital image according to the client device interaction by replacing one or more copied local digital image layers with the one or more modified digital image layers without replacing other copied local digital image layers corresponding to the one or more unmodified digital image layers.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:

• maintaining, on a user client device, a local digital image layer database having a digital image mapping that indicates where local digital image layers making up a digital image are locally stored within the local digital image layer database on the user client device, wherein the local digital image layers are locally stored as independent files distributed across the local digital image layer database on the user client device;
• generating, on the user client device, a composite digital image from the local digital image layers by:
• copying the local digital image layers making up the digital image from within the local digital image layer database on the user client device to form a composite digital image outside of the local digital image layer database on the user client device;
• and
• generating a digital image manifest for the composite digital image indicating the copied local digital image layers and further indicating that the copied local digital image layers are locally stored as part of the composite digital image on the user client device;
• updating, at the local digital image layer database on the user client device, the digital image mapping from indicating where the local digital image layers making up the digital image are locally stored within the local digital image layer database on the user client device to indicating where the copied local digital image layers of the composite digital image are locally stored on the user client device;
• receiving a client device interaction modifying the digital image;
• determining, in response to the client device interaction modifying the digital image, one or more modified digital image layers and one or more unmodified digital image layers from among the local digital image layers;
• and
• updating the composite digital image according to the client device interaction by replacing one or more copied local digital image layers with the one or more modified digital image layers without replacing other copied local digital image layers corresponding to the one or more unmodified digital image layers.