Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®

Changing the color balance

Now you’ll use an adjustment layer to adjust the color balance on the leaves image. ImageReady has many of the same color-correction features as Photoshop, but they cannot be applied to adjustment layers or channels because you cannot create or edit adjustment layers or channels in ImageReady.

Altering the color for a channel or a regular layer permanently changes the pixels on that layer. However, with an adjustment layer, your color and tonal changes reside only within the adjustment layer and do not alter any pixels in the layers beneath it. The effect is as if you were viewing the visible layers through the adjustment layer above them. By using adjustment layers, you can try out color and tonal adjustments without ...