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Adjustment Layers in Photoshop, the ultimate guide

Colin Smith

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How to use Adjustment Layers in Photoshop CC

When it comes to making your images look good, there are 2 places to go, Adjusment Layers and Camera Raw plugin.

This tutorial explains exactly what Adjustment Layers are, why you should use them and it’s sprinkled with a healthy does of tips and practical examples. Get ready to grow in your Photoshop knowledge.

 

Learn exactly how Adjustment Layers work in Photoshop in 4 steps that are packed with little-known tips and tricks. Your photos are going to look amazing. This is the ultimate guide to the heart of Photoshop. Colin Smith will show you:

4 classes of Photoshop Adjustment Layers
3 Benefits of Adjustment Layers over everything else
Masks, Blending Modes and advanced blending
Extending Adjustment Layer functionality to regular Adjustments

 

Tutorial on Curves here

â–º Download Layer Blending Modes e-book:https://photoshopcafe.com/blendmodeebook

 

Thanks for checking it out!

Colin


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40 thoughts on “Adjustment Layers in Photoshop, the ultimate guide

  1. brendan reilly
    May 1, 2018 at 11:30 am

    great videos thanks for sharing i am for Ireland

  2. Carlos
    May 1, 2018 at 11:58 am

    Thanks a lot. Great tutorial, as always.

  3. Frantisek
    May 1, 2018 at 12:17 pm

    Thank you Colin, excellent work.

  4. Stanley Smart
    May 1, 2018 at 12:24 pm

    Loved your tutorials on Curves and Adjustment layers. I never knew you could use adjustment layers the way and I am going to try it. I am practically self taught in Photoshop but after seeing your tutorials my interest was exacerbated and all my work have improved so intensely.

  5. Laura
    May 1, 2018 at 12:41 pm

    Thank you Colin for your tutorials. I am a beginner and I appreciate your videos! From San Diego, California.

  6. May 1, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    I appreciate your tutorial Colin and look forward to trying them out – especially the shadows – might be a big help for some of my real estate photography. Thanks for the e-book! I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Come and see our Balloon Fiesta in October.

  7. mandy
    May 1, 2018 at 4:02 pm

    fab tutorial as always – Rotorua NZ

  8. May 1, 2018 at 4:28 pm

    Thanks Colin, even though I’ve been using Photoshop for years, I never cease to be impressed by the things I’ve learnt through your tutorials. Cheers from Melbourne Australia

  9. Terry Hughes
    May 1, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    Another useful tutorial. Thanks from Ottawa, ON, Canada

  10. May 1, 2018 at 5:12 pm

    Great tutorials, sorry I didn’t discover you sooner!! Bill from Asheville, NC

  11. Susan
    May 1, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    You give the most understandable tuts that I have watched!!! Please keep them coming from Vancouver, WA. Thanks a million!

  12. May 1, 2018 at 8:21 pm

    Hi Colin!! I’m from Adelaide, Sth Australia, Australia. I thoroughly enjoy ur tips on Photoshop and am eagly wanting to try them out, thankx very much

  13. Pompilia
    May 1, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    Great tutorial, Colin.
    “You raised the curtain” in photoshop for me, I finally understood “adjustmenst layers”.
    Thank you very much Colin!
    I’m from Alba Iulia, Romania.

  14. Martin Davis
    May 1, 2018 at 11:59 pm

    Great Explanation. Now to try it out!

  15. Richard Deeble
    May 2, 2018 at 12:36 am

    Useful update Richard in Halesowen UK

  16. Ken Leslie
    May 2, 2018 at 8:36 am

    Great stuff. I use your tutorials and videos as teaching references for my high school PhotoShop class.

    1. pcadmin
      May 3, 2018 at 12:54 pm

      Shout out to your students!

  17. Dick Servati
    May 2, 2018 at 10:41 am

    Again you explain the processes so that is easier to experiment without fear. I’m from Moore Oklahoma (Ground zero for tornadoes, starting this afternoon)

  18. Val
    May 2, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    Thanks for the tutuorials Colin. These are greatly appreciated. You open up so many hidden doors in photoshop and explain them so well. I’m from St Andrews, Manitoba, Canada

  19. Ken Brown
    May 3, 2018 at 12:41 am

    Great tutorial as usual. Thanks. Lancashire England.

  20. Alan
    May 4, 2018 at 7:12 am

    Great video I have learnt a lot Thank You. I’m from the UK

  21. Jacob van der Pad
    May 4, 2018 at 10:27 am

    Great tutorial as always, thanks for sharing Colin

  22. Geoff B
    May 4, 2018 at 6:38 pm

    Great stuff Colin, thanks for sharing your know how with me on Vancouver Island, Canada.

  23. Pat Transue
    May 5, 2018 at 8:31 am

    I like the way you explain things. simple and easy. Thanks for sharing you knowledge.
    Stroudsburg, Pa.

  24. May 5, 2018 at 10:42 am

    Excellent tutorial–enjoy learning from watching your videos. Greetings from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Come over to our neck of the woods to do some shooting in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

    1. pcadmin
      May 7, 2018 at 2:02 pm

      That sounds exciting! I was recently in Nashville

  25. Guthrie Forbes
    May 5, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    Virtually self taught in Photoshop largely using your tutorials, they are excellent, currently from Phu Quoi Vietnam

  26. Jennifer
    May 5, 2018 at 10:08 pm

    Hi Colin, I’m from Australia and a subscriber to all your tutorials. This has been another great tutorial like all of yours. I have a question about a special effect. I would like to show you a picture of the sort of effect I’m talking about. Where is the best place to send you an image and show you which effect I mean? I have virtually done all your free tutorials and haven’t found one similar to what I was after as yet, so would like to ask you about it. Where can I email you?

    By the way, I’m a primary (your elementary) teacher in a school here. I sent a grant and received licenses for some of the photoshop elements premium application to teach small groups of my upper primary students. Years 6 and 7. I thought “elements” may be a better starting point for them.

  27. Jennifer
    May 5, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    Please send me an email about this, thanks Colin

  28. Michael
    May 7, 2018 at 4:44 am

    Hi Colon,
    I have a love/hate relationship with photoshop. I love learning and working in Photoshop, but I hate how much I seem to forget! I’m glad I can go to you website to check out what to do again.
    Thank you for your easy-going, clear presentations.
    I’m from the beautiful Central Coast (about 1hr north of Sydney), Australia

  29. Philip Ashmore
    May 9, 2018 at 4:39 am

    Hi Colin. Writing this from Sheffield, UK.
    Thanks for ‘Adjustment Layers’ another great tutorial. Learnt so much in such a short time.
    Never miss viewing a tutorial.
    Can I ask you? Is possible that you could add written instructions to more of your video tutorials.
    At 72 going on 73 my memory is not what it was.
    Keep up the great work.
    Regards.

    1. pcadmin
      May 15, 2018 at 11:52 am

      Yes, my goal is to have written steps for ALL of them. I just haven’t had time to do the newest ones, it takes a lot of time. I tried to get someone to help, but it didn’t work out.

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