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How to have Adjustment Layer Target only One Layer ?

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July 27, 2021
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If someone can please tell me if I have these layers in my project as shown in the attached Picture and if I have changed the background of a subject and now if I want to make changes with regards to highlights and shadows of only the subject not the entire image.

If I add the adjustment layer where do I need to place it ? so that it only makes changes to the subject and not the background colour ?

Can someone please tell me ?

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edgrimley

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augustyaAuthor

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By @edgrimley

Ok let me try this then, Have one Layer of my Masked Layer have the Colour Background Layer below it and have the Adjustment Layer Unclipped at the Top.

melissapiccone

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Your adjusment layer is actually clipped...

Here is a short video on creating clipping masks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNMWabDLvRA

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AxelMatt

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This can be done with a clipping mask.

Insert a adjustment layer above the appropriate layer and make it to a clipping mask.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/revealing-layers-clipping-masks.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyWplm5X-lU&ab_channel=EnvatoTuts%2B

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This can be done with a clipping mask.
Insert a adjustment layer above the appropriate layer and make it to a clipping mask.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/revealing-layers-clipping-masks.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyWplm5X-lU&ab_channel=EnvatoTuts%2B

By @AxelMatt

So with regards to the Layers I have in my Image Link. both look the same to me I dont know which is the Target Layer ? in this case what do I do ?

D Fosse

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Go to the Layers panel. Place the adjustment layer directly above the layer you want it to affect (that's the "target layer" btw). Then place the cursor on the line separating the two layers, and alt-click. A small angled arrow appears, showing that the layer is now clipped to the underlying layer.

That's the shortcut. There are menu items to do it too, but I always use the alt-click method.

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