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Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers

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Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers

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As you begin to work with more layers in Photoshop, you're going to want to learn how to control which layers are being affected by an adjustment layer. In this document, each one of these artifacts is on its own layer. Each one of these layers also has a layer effect, which we'll talk about in more detail later in the course. Just know that the layer effect adds a small drop shadow in order to make it appear as if the object is actually on that background layer. All right, I want to add a Hue and Saturation layer, but I want to add it above the fossil, so I'll target that layer, and from the bottom of the Layers panel, I'll choose Hue and Saturation. I want to desaturate this fossil, but when I decrease the saturation, everything that appears below the Hue and Saturation adjustment layer is going to be affected. So in order to have the Hue and Saturation adjustment layer only affect the fossil, we can create a clipping group. We've done this in previous chapters by going under the…

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