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Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers

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Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers

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- [Instructor] As you begin to work with more layers in Photoshop, you're going to want to learn how to control, which layers are being affected by an adjustment layer. In this document, where you can see that we have a number of different artifacts and each one of these artifacts is on its own layer. Each one of these layers also has a layer effect, just a small drop shadow in order to make it appear as if it's actually on the background layer. All right if I wanted to de-saturate all of the layers in my image, then I could simply add a hue and saturation adjustment layer at the top of the layer stack. We can see that all of the layers underneath the hue saturation adjustment layer are being affected by that adjustment. But what if I only want to affect a single layer? In this case, I want to add a little bit of contrast to the pod layer so I will target it, and then from the bottom of the layers panel, I'll add a…

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