adjustment layer

Basic Adjustment Layers - Part 3

Building perfect masks can be a rewarding experience, that's why in the this video I show you a couple of old but well-served techniques for masking in a banner, and ensuring everything else is firmly masked out. First I'll show you a way of selecting and thereby masking every opaque pixel on a layer - not just well, but exactly. In the second demonstration I'll show you how clipping masks work in Elements, something every modest user should know.

Basic Adjustment Layers - Part 2

Adjustment Layers permit you to make non-destructive colour adjustments, but what if you want to isolate those adjustments to a particular area of the image, maybe a friends hair, your pet's collar, the sky, the ground - or some raspberry jelly? Well then you have masks, a relatively easy but hugely powerful method of applying your adjustments where you want them. In this video I'll show you how they work, and we'll set about isolating the aforementioned jelly!

Basic Adjustment Layers - Part 1

Adjustment Layers in Photoshop Elements are independent and always editable layers of colour adjustment that can be applied to one or multiple layers in a composition. They're really easy to create and use, add very little to the overall file size, and ensure your adjustments remain forever editable inside the PSD format. In this video I'll show you the benefits of using a hue/saturation adjustment layer to change the colour of some jelly.

13 Lost Tutorials
A few weeks ago I stepped down from my position of moderator at photoshopforums.com to focus on other things including writing and recording more tutorials for this site. During my 27 months at PhotoshopForums.com I wrote 13 quick-fire tutorials for the Tutorials and Featured Tips section, some of them, I'm pleased to say, receiving over 5000 views.

Making Photos Look Their Best Video Tutorial

At first glance, it may seem that we’re revisiting the same things we looked at way back when we explored the Quick Fix mode, but on second glance, we’re correcting the same problems only this time with way more accuracy, detail and control.

Levels Adjustment Layer Video Tutorial

In the world of non-destructive image editing with the levels command - the adjustment layer is king. Sitting at the top of the layers palette it gracefully and parametrically controls every pixel below it, and when used in combination with its equally powerful ally the luminance mask it becomes a true Photoshop force to be reckoned with.