The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

41. SPEED UP YOUR WORK BY DUPLICATING LAYER MASKS

BECAUSE YOU’RE GOING to be using this adjustment layer masking technique over and over again, I want to give you one essential tip that will speed up a lot of the work you’ll be doing in Photoshop. We’ll pick up where we left off with the example image from the previous lesson.

Let’s take a look at the area in Figure 41.1 where I did a Hue/Saturation adjustment on the hubcap. If you look at the mask for that layer, you can see that I spent some time working on it (Figure 41.2). (Note: I renamed the adjustment layers in the Layers panel so that they make a little bit more sense. This layer is called ...