Chapter 10. Adjustment Layers

Adjustment Layers
 

[sitting atop a big gun, hands on controls] I don’t know what these levers do, but it’s pointing in your direction!

 
 --Adric, from Doctor Who

When it comes to making adjustments to your images, we’ve already covered a lot of territory. We’ve explored Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, and a vast number of techniques for color correcting and manipulating your images. You might have noticed that I often suggested you use an adjustment layer to implement the techniques; I use adjustment layers on the majority of images I work with and consider this feature to be the key to working quickly, having absolute flexibility, and ...

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