How To Use The Pop-Up Exposure Adjustment Layer

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The Adjustment Layer pop-up control at the bottom of your Layers Palette remains as a separate Layer on your Layers Palette when you re-open your image after saving it!

All of your saved adjustments are intact and available for re-adjustment whenever you want to revise them!

(Note the arrow pointing to the icon in the diagram on the right.)

Simple Directions For Creating an Adjustment Using the Icon at the Bottom of the Layers Palette

Click on the black/white icon (it looks like a ying-yang symbol) at the bottom of the Layers Palette.

A Pop-up Screen will appear.

Click on Exposure and use the sliders to make your adjustments just as you learned from the previous Photoshop Tutorial for adjusting exposure.

Click on the link below if you need to review.

(To review Under and Over Exposure Correction WITHOUT an Adjustment Layer, click here)

When you open the Exposure Pop-up, a new top layer will appear on your Layers Palette.

Just click on OK to close the Exposure Pop-up.

Save your image as a Photoshop (PSD) image, and you can re-adjust your Exposure Layer anytime in the future by double clicking on the icon for that layer (the Exposure icon looks like a star burst)!

Plus you will know what adjustments you applied to your image by simply double clicking on the icon for that layer.

PS: To apply the same adjustment to another photo, grab the adjustment layer on the Layers Palette with your mouse, and slide it onto your new image!

A new exposure layer will appear at the top of the Layers Palette for your new image, and your new image will have exactly the same exposure adjustment as your first photo.

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Experiment using each of the Adjustment Pop-ups accessed by the Adjustment Icon at the bottom of the Layers Palette.

The different adjustments such as Brightness and Saturation will make a separate layer on your Layers Palette

In addition to allowing greater flexibility, the Adjustment Layers also help keep your files smaller.

And, that's a very good thing!

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