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Limiting adjustments with Clipping Masks

Limiting adjustments with Clipping Masks - Photoshop Tutorial

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Limiting adjustments with Clipping Masks

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- [Instructor] As you begin to work with more layers in Photoshop, you're going to want to control which layers are affected by the adjustments that we add. For example, if I add an invert adjustment layer to the top of this layer stack, it's going to affect all of the layers underneath it. The bottom of the layers panel, I'll just choose invert. Because the top layer was selected, it's added above that. And we can see that it's inverted everything. But if I only want the invert adjustment layer to affect the arch photo on the right, then I need to create a clipping mask. I'll change the stacking order by dragging it down so that it appears right above the arch photo, and then choose layer, and then create clipping mask. Now the invert adjustment layer only affects the layer that it's masked to below. I know that it's been clipped because not only can I see the visible results, but in the layers panel we get the…

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