Adobe 65045315 - Photoshop Elements Use Manual page 83

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Using layers
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Create adjustment layers
In the Layers panel, select the topmost layer you want to affect.
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2 To confine the effects of the adjustment layer to a selected area in that layer, make a selection.
3 Do one of the following:
• To affect all the layers below the adjustment layer, click the Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer button
bottom of the Layers panel. Then, choose one of the following adjustment types. (The first three options in the
menu are fill layers, not adjustment layers.)
Original image, and image with Hue/Saturation adjustment applied. Only the layers under the adjustment layer are affected.
• To affect only one layer or several successive layers below the adjustment layer, choose Layer > New Adjustment
Layer > [adjustment type]. In the New Layer dialog box, select Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask, and
then click OK.
Corrects tonal values in the image.
Levels
Lightens or darkens the image.
Brightness/Contrast
Adjusts colors in the image.
Hue/Saturation
Maps pixels to the color in the selected gradient.
Gradient Map
Adjusts the color balance and color temperature of the image.
Photo Filter
Produces a photo negative effect by creating a negative based on the brightness values of the image.
Invert
Renders the image in monochrome with no gray, so that you can locate the lightest and darkest areas.
Threshold
Gives a flat, poster-like appearance to a photo by reducing the number of brightness values (levels) in the
Posterize
image, thus reducing the number of colors.
In the dialog box, specify options and click OK. (Invert has no options.)
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