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Applying blend modes to adjustment layers

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Applying blend modes to adjustment layers

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- [Instructor] Typically, Photoshop's adjustment layers affect both the color and the luminosity values in an image. However, there are times when we want to isolate the effects of the adjustment to a single component, such as hue, saturation, color, or luminosity. One of the easiest ways to restrict the way that an adjustment layer blends with the layers below is by using blend modes. So in this first example, I want to add a curves adjustment layer, and I want to change the dynamic range. I'm going to move the black point over and the white point over. However, the curve is affecting both the color and the luminosity values in the underlying photograph, and it's adding this unwanted color shift in the photo. So in order to isolate the curves adjustment layer to only affect the luminosity values of the image below, we can change the blend mode to luminosity. If I undo that, we can see that's before, and that's after. All…

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