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Introducing adjustment layers

Introducing adjustment layers - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing adjustment layers

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- [Instructor] Adjustment layers are a powerful way to make non-destructive edits like changing color or tonal values in an image or to a portion of an image. Now in a perfect world, if we had access to the original raw file, then we should definitely make these types of adjustments in Camera Raw or in Lightroom classics develop module or in the edit stack in Lightroom in order to maintain the highest quality possible. But there are times when we don't have access to the raw file or maybe the area that we need to select and change is easier to select in Photoshop than it is in Camera Raw. So I'm going to start by adding a hue saturation adjustment layer. I can do that by either selecting the layer menu and the new adjustment layer and hue and saturation, or we can click on the adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the layers panel and select hue and saturation. When you add an adjustment layer, the options for that…

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