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Participant
July 31, 2023
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Brightness control over generated content

  • July 31, 2023
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I'm placing a sailboat onto a water scene. The boat is too bright for the amount of sunlight in the scene. I would like to be able to apply controls such as Curves, Exposure, etc. to the sailboat, even if that requires a new rendering.

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Participant
August 1, 2023

I must be missing something, because my adjustment layer affects all pixels within the generated layer, including the prior background content that was borrowed to create the new amalgam.

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 31, 2023

You can do that easily by clipping the adjustment layer(s) to the underlying pixel layer. Then the adjustment only affects that layer.

 

Alt-click between the layers. Note the clip symbol: