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when working with layer based
adjustments in Photoshop
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with or without luminosity masks I feel
it's important to establish
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an approach that takes full advantage of
the image quality and flexibility that
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Photoshop can deliver
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for a workflow to take full advantage
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Photoshop skip abilities it should be
flexible and non-destructive
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flexible means that layers are used in a
way that any adjustment can be added
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removed or fine-tuned at anytime
non-destructive means that adjustments
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are not made to the pixels
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have the background image itself which
would change the content of the image in
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a way that can't be reversed in the
future
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have a few workflow recommendations that
will allow you to maximize the function
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and flexibility of your layer based
adjustments
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these tips are helpful regardless if
you've made you serve luminosity mass in
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your developing or not
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but their specially important with
luminosity master adjustments
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the first tip is to make all in your
pixel altering adjustments before doing
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anything else to an image
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clean up all dust spots do any cloning
that's needed
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and make any sort of alignment or
perspective changes
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especially warps and content-aware
transformations
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if you alter the pixels of the image
after you have luminosity masks in place
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the pixels love the masks will no longer
match the pixels of the image
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and the altered areas will stand out for
example in this image
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now that I've done all of my developing
if I decide that I want to you
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clone out this rock in the foreground
using the Content Aware Spot Healing
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Brush
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normally should do a very good job at
that
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but in this case the luminosity basques
that I used in the developing up this
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image
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were all generated around the pixels up
that rock
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with the rock on the adjustments are no
longer correct
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in that portion of the image the second
tip is to make necessary global
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adjustments to the image before working
with more targeted adjustments
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correct color balance is the most
important
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attempting to correct image wide color
contamination after more localized in
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targeted color adjustments have been
made
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can be difficult to near impossible
third
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avoid flattening layers as you work on
an image and save images in the tiff
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or PSD file format with all layers
intact
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once layers have been flattened the
adjustments they contained are no longer
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adjustable
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I find that new adjustments can cause
previous adjustments to become stronger
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than desired
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maintaining the ability to fine-tune
previous adjustment layers
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as new adjustments are added above them
is critical for keeping all your
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adjustments working in concert
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to achieve precisely the effect you
desire in addition
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if a particular problem arises intact
layers
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allow you to go back and turn
adjustments on an off
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one by one and tell you can isolate the
adjustment
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or combination ever just months that
caused the problem in the first place
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finally as you're developing skills
advance
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and new tools are added to Photoshop
leaving layers intact makes it possible
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to remove
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old adjustments and replace them with
better ones fourth
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avoid placing a pic pixel layers in the
middle %uh view layer stack at all costs
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to demonstrate ha make a copy above the
background layer
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and then I'll move it to the middle the
stack
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a pic pixel airs
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like the 1i just generated were the ones
created by third-party plug-ins software
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completely blocked the ability to make
visible adjustments two layers below
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them
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for all intents you might as well just
flatten the image
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instead of inserting opaque layers none
of these layers below
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is having any effect on the opaque pixel
air above
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if you find you can't avoid using a
filter or adjustment that requires an
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opaque pixel air
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I suggest that you either keep those
layers at the bottom of the stack
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where they won't affect adjustments
below them or you keep them
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at the very top of the stack so that it
can be deleted
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adjustments can be made to the layers
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below it and then it can be recreated at
the top again
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the layer stack is your record book the
developing history have an image
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naming layers in groups can be very
helpful in remembering what each layer
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and group does
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tony's actions automatically name the
layers they generate
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but any custom generated a nasty mask
layers will have generic names and tell
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you change them
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if you'd like more in-depth instruction
on establishing a flexible and
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non-destructive workflow
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check out my digital processing workflow
tutorial set employing
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a workflow that is flexible and
non-destructive will allow you to take
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advantage of Photoshop's capabilities
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can give you the greatest ability to
work with your images overtime
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and refine your adjustments as you go