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A selection-based adjustment

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A selection-based adjustment

- More often than not, I find that when I want to apply a targeted adjustment to a specific area of an image in Photoshop that the easiest approach, or at least the most effective approach, is to create a selection that I will then use as the basis of the layer mask for my targeted adjustment. Let's take a look at this simple example just to illustrate that concept, the basic work flow for applying a targeted adjustment based on a selection. In this case, we'll assume that I want to apply an adjustment to the rocky area here. In other words, I do not want the adjustment to affect the sky. I'd like to enhance contrast for the foreground, for example, without altering the sky. And that means that I need my selection to be a selection of the rocky area, not of the sky. And so, for example, I might choose the quick selection tool, and then I could click and drag, painting throughout the rocky area, building up a selection as I go. And in the case of the quick selection tool, it often does…

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