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The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels.
With the adjustment layers, you can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your original image at any time. This will make your workflow in Photoshop more flexible and efficient, and is an absolute must-know.
Please watch this short video about using Adjustment layers
The following is a great site on what each Adjustment Layer does
Step 1
Open Photoshop
File Menu > Open > Adjustment Layers Exercise.jpg
Step 2
Next, to bring up a specific adjustment layer... Select the Adjustment Layer icon from the Layers Palette, and choose one from the menu:
Step 3
Select Brightness & Contrast to start.
The image looked a little dark in the shadow areas, and I wanted to see some more details. Try this yourself. Put the numbers in just like you see in the screen shot below:
CONTRAST slider to the right - 48
Step 4
Next do the same procedure clicking on the Adjustment Layer icon and select Hue/Saturation
Increase the color saturation to +50
Step 5
Next, click on the Adjustment Layer icon again and select Color Balance to the colors. See the settings in the screenshot and make yours:
Cyan - Red to -9
Magenta - Green to -2
Yellow - Blue to - 11
Step 6
Now add another Adjustment layer > Gradient Map
Here is the resulting image with all 3 Adjustment Layers added.
Image 1 below - Some type of gradient will be placed on your image. It might not be the red to white like the one seen here
Image 2 below - Click here to open the available gradients
Image 3 below - Click on the gear icon and select Photographic Toning or any other gradients from the drop down list
Step 7
Select the Sepia Blue 2 gradient - by clicking on the icon
Step 8
Finally add a Curves adjustment layer to the image making it have more overall contrast.
Input: 111
Output: 136
Step 9
Save this to Your Google Drive folder
File Menu > Save As
Save this to Your Google Drive folder as as Adjustment_Layers.psd
Turn into Schoology when finished with this exercise
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