From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
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Introducing Adjustment Layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
Introducing Adjustment Layers
- [Narrator] Adjustment layers are a powerful way to make non-destructive edits, like changing color or tonal values in an image, or to a portion of an image. In a perfect world, if we have access to the Raw file bin, sure we should make those types of adjustments in Camera Raw or in Lightroom's Develop Module to maintain the highest quality possible. But there are times when we don't have access to the Raw file, or maybe the area that we need to edit is much easier to select in Photoshop than it is in Camera Raw. So in this image, I just want to emphasize this area that says steel office and I am going to do that with a non-destructive adjustment layer. In order to select it, I'll choose the polygonal lasso tool and then just click in each one of the corners here really quickly to make my selection. Now when I'm in the lower area here, if I just want to close the selection with a straight line,…
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Introducing Adjustment Layers3m 52s
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Understanding the Histogram4m 58s
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Refining dynamic range using Levels8m 22s
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Adjusting contrast and correcting color using Curves5m 59s
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Three easy ways to adjust color in images6m 19s
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Custom black and white conversions3m 56s
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Limiting adjustments with Clipping Masks3m 9s
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