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Saving adjustment layers

Saving adjustment layers - Photoshop Tutorial

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Saving adjustment layers

In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to save an image that contains one or more adjustment layers. Now here is the idea. Had I just gone ahead and applied a static color adjustment to either of these images. I could go up to the File menu. Choose the Save command in order to save over my original JPEG image. Now that's a little problematic. I have to tell you. I don't advise you do that. I don't advise you open an image, in other words that you shot with a digital camera. Make a bunch of static modifications to it. Then just choose File>Save because if you do that then your original image is lost forever -- where that becomes a problem is if first you know just enough about Photoshop to be dangerous, and you go through an absolutely wreck a few hundred images, then a couple of years you come back to them and go what have I done? Those are gone forever. My original images are dead to me. And all you have is your terrible edits. Whereas if you don't save over your originals, you…

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