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Saving adjustment layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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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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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