Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 User Manual page 101

Adjustment and fill layers have the same opacity and blending mode options as image layers, and you can move and
reposition them just as you do image layers. By default, adjustment and fill layers are named for their type (for
instance, Solid Color fill layer; Invert adjustment layer).
Create Adjustment Layer menu
A. Fill layers B. Adjustment layers
See also
"To edit the layer masks" on page 99
"About opacity and blending options in layers" on page 93
"To simplify a layer" on page 87
To create adjustment layers
By default, all layers below an adjustment layer are affected by the adjustment. You can choose to group a new
adjustment layer with a selected layer to affect only that layer.
In the Layers palette, select the topmost layer you want to affect.
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(Optional) To confine the effects of the adjustment layer to a selected area on that layer, make a selection.
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Do one of the following:
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• Click the Create Adjustment Layer button
adjustment types.
Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer, and choose one of the following adjustments.
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Note: To affect only one layer or several successive layers below the adjustment layer, select Group With Previous Layer
in the New Layer dialog box, and then click OK.
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B
at the top of the Layers palette, and choose one of the following
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