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Lesson  8 - Photoshop Adjustment Layers

Experience:  You should be able to use adjustment layers to bring out the best in a photo - or to be creative, adding effects that enhance your image, poster, or other design. This week you'll learn the adjustment layers in detail.

Objectives:
​Section 08-A (Monday)

• What are adjustment layers?
• How are adjustment layers different than in the image - adjustments menu?
• The anatomy of an adjustment layer

Section 08-B (Tuesday)

• Using adjustment layers presets
• Brightness/Contrast • Levels • Curves • Exposure • Vibrance (Exercise B08-05 Levels and Exercise B08-05 Curves)

Section 08-C (Wednesday)

• Hue/Saturation • Color Balance • Black & White • Photo Filter • Channel Mixer • Color Lookup
• Invert • Posterize • Threshold • Selective Color • Gradient Map

Section 08-D (Thursday)

• Shadows/Highlights
• Three different ways to add an adjustment layer
• Fill Layers:  Solid fills, gradient fills, pattern fills

Public domain images used in this lesson were taken from PublicDomainPictures.net, Pexels, and Pixabay

Photo: The Assembly Hall ©2015 Nathan Smith

USU Canvas Resources and Assignment for this week...

USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 8 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 8 Module. See the image at right.

​If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, links to the exercise files are provided within the lesson

View Assignment Scoring Rubrics for Lesson 8

• ​B08-Week-7-Readings---Your thoughts and take-aways
• B08-Lesson-Exercises
• B08-Exhibit-4-critiques​
• ​B08---Portfolio-Exhibit-5
• B08---Portfolio-Exhibit-5-Revision

Here's a great idea for a portfolio exhibit. In my portfolio exhibit at right, I used adjustment layers to turn a color photo I took into a dramatic black and white image.

This page last updated July 9, 2020.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2020 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.