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Adjustment layer tips and tricks

Adjustment layer tips and tricks - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adjustment layer tips and tricks

- All right now I'm going to share with you a handful of useful adjustment layer tips, and tricks. So for starters here let's say I want to take this static adjustment that I applied a couple of movies ago and I want to reapply it as a dynamic adjustment layer. Well Photoshop being the amazingly flexible creature it is allows you to undo even after saving an image. So I still have this JPEG file open I didn't close it. And as a result, I can go up to the edit menu and choose undo brightness contrast or I could just press control + Z or command + Z on the Mac to restore the original lackluster Puffin. But it gets even better, now I can go over to the window menu and choose the history command. And that way notice that I have just two history states, the brightness and contrast state, which is the saved state of the image and the original image that I opened. Now with the open image selected I can drop down to this…

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