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Applying a dynamic adjustment layer

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Applying a dynamic adjustment layer

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- [Instructor] All right, now I'm going to take down the brightness and contrast of this particular puffin image using a dynamic adjustment layer. All right, so if I switch back to the image from the previous movie, and I press Control Z, or Command Z on the Mac, I can return to the original version of the image, and then if I press Control Shift C, or Command Shift C on the Mac, I can redo the modification. So, with the exception of being able to undo and redo, this is a permanent modification to the image. That is, each and every pixel has actually been modified, and such a change is technically known as a destructive one. Not because we've destroyed the image, we've actually enhanced it, we've made it better. But rather, because we have permanently modified pixels. Compare that with assigning a dynamic adjustment layer instead, adjustment layers are known as nondestructive modifications. And you apply them in…

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