Adobe Photoshop Visual QuickStart Guide

9. Adjustment Layers and Image Adjustments

In This Chapter

• Adjustment and Fill Layers

• Making Brightness/Contrast Adjustments

• Making Levels Adjustments

• Making Curves Adjustments

• Using the Channel Mixer

• Exporting Color Lookup Tables

• Limiting Adjustments with Clipping Masks

• Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers

• Adjusting Color Balance

• Making Vibrance Adjustments

• Working with Photo Filter

• Applying Black & White Adjustment Layers

• Tinting with Gradient Map Adjustments

• Adjusting Color with Selective Color

• Using Fill Layers

• Evaluating Images

• Using Shadows/Highlights

Using adjustments layers you can apply color and tonal adjustments to your images without permanently changing their pixel values. Adjustment layers are nondestructive, continuously ...