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Using adjustment layers in a multi-image composite

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Using adjustment layers in a multi-image composite

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- [Instructor] When you're compositing images together, if you're working with raw files, I would suggest that you open the files as smart objects into Photoshop so that you can make tonal and color adjustments to them as you're blending those images together. Plus if you open those raw files as smart objects, you can also resize them in a composition without losing the image quality. We're going to start by double-clicking on the artifacts.psd in order to open it. I'm going to use command-zero to fit on screen. Now, there are many instances when you're either not beginning with a raw file, you might have JPEGs or TIFF or PSD files to work with, or you might have multiple layers that have already been opened up as pixels and you still want to make adjustments. So we're going to add three different adjustment layers to this image. The first one, I just want to affect this pod down here at the bottom. Then I want to add a…

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