Initial Setting Adjustment Program How To Save Your

Ill reset the Vibrance adjustment back to its default settings by clicking the Reset icon at the bottom of the panel.

Most of these adjustments come in two flavorsadjustment commands and adjustment layers.

But while adjustment commands make permanent changes to your image, adjustment layers do not.

The adjustment sits on its own layer above the image layer, and the entire effect is contained within the adjustment layer itself.

And you can even delete an adjustment layer, all without making a single permanent change to your photo.

Initial Setting Adjustment Program How To Save Your

And at the end, Ill show you how to save your work so that your adjustment layers dont disappear as soon as you close Photoshop.

Others, like HueSaturation and Color Balance, are for changing the color.

And a few of them, like Posterize and Gradient Map, are more for creating certain effects.

And the settings available will depend on which adjustment you choose.

Both are used to increase or decrease the intensity of the color.

The difference is that Saturation affects all colors equally while Vibrance affects muted colors more than colors that are already saturated.

In the Layers panel, we see that the Vibrance adjustment was applied directly to the image itself.

And if I was to save the image at this point and then close Photoshop, my original color image would be lost forever.

Not because they make the image look worse but because any changes they make are permanent.

If more edits had been made to the image since applying the adjustment, then all of those edits would need to be undone to get back to the point before the adjustment was applied.

They make permanent and destructive changes, and the original image is lost forever.

Lets compare that with adjustment layers and learn why adjustment layers are so much better.

But dont do that just yet because we have two more ways to look at.

By default, the Adjustments panel is grouped in with the Properties panel (which well look at in a moment).

But a checkmark next to its name means that the panel is already open, and choosing it from the list will close the panel.

For example, the Vibrance adjustment layer is the icon on the far right of the top row.

Choosing one will simply fill the document with either a solid color, a gradient or a pattern.

They sit above the image layer and the entire effect is contained within the adjustment layer itself, while the original image below the adjustment layer remains unharmed.

We can go back to the Properties panel and edit the settings at any time.