From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes

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Using layer masks and adjustment layers

Using layer masks and adjustment layers - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes

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Using layer masks and adjustment layers

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- While adjustment layers are quite powerful, the ability to combine them with selections makes them infinitely more useful. Photoshop offers several incredible selection tools, I'd like to show you a few of my favorites and how those selections can be stored right with the adjustment layer by adding a layer mask. Let's revisit that concept of masks a bit more. In this case you see a scooter shot on the streets in Italy and it looks very much like a blue scooter. However, if I turn off that adjustment layer, you'll see it was in fact red. Well in order for this to work, it's important that the adjustment is precisely applied. For example, if we take a look here at just this layer and disable the mask you'll see that if it's applied everywhere we get unwanted shift and so it's important that we control exactly where this falls by using something like a selection tool. Let's turn that layer off and start this from scratch. I'll choose the background layer here and I'm gonna invoke one…

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