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Introducing adjustment layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Introducing adjustment layers
In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to adjustment layers, which are independent layers of color adjustment inside Photoshop. They affect all the layers below them. They remain 100% editable. So you can always go back and change your mind. And they're nondestructive. And that they temporarily as opposed to permanently affect the colors of pixels inside of your images. We're going to employ a couple of Brightness/Contrast layers in order to more or less match these butterflies to each other. So you may recall I've got Light butterfly.jpg and Dark butterfly.jpg opened, here inside of Photoshop. I have made some modifications to the images. Let's see how well I've done in making these two butterflies look the same by going up to the Arrange Documents icon here in the Applications Bar and choosing 2 Up. Now we'll see the two butterfly side-by-side. We've got Dark butterfly.jpg on left and Light butterfly.jpg on right. I'm going to press Shift+Spacebar together. And drag one of…
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Making drab colors look better1m 20s
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Brightness and contrast4m 10s
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Adjusting numerical values4m 26s
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Introducing adjustment layers5m 17s
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Editing adjustment layers2m 51s
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Saving adjustment layers4m 35s
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Adding a quick layer mask4m 23s
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Introducing the Histogram4m 34s
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Working with the Histogram panel6m 27s
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Using Color Balance7m 18s
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Introducing the Variations command4m 50s
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Luminance and saturation controls3m 54s
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Fading a static adjustment3m 21s
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How hue and saturation work4m 28s
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Rotating hues and adjusting saturation6m 4s
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Creating a quick and dirty sepia tone4m 41s
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Adjusting hues selectively5m 32s
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The Target Adjustment tool4m 24s
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Photoshop CS5 Target Adjustment enhancements53s
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Adjusting the color of clothing8m 44s
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Enhancing a low-saturation image4m 23s
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Refining saturation with Vibrance5m 1s
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