Paterson Photography Ltd.

I am often asked what is the best way to do correcting in Photoshop?  Just today I had a client ask a couple great questions that I thought deserved a posting on the blog.

Question: How do you do color corrections and levels in Photoshop?

Answer: I use adjustment layers whenever possible.  Why? If you use adjustment layers then save the file in PSD you can go back and see what you have done, make small adjustments from the last place that you adjusted to and finally if you get one image looking great and you have a number of others that need the same adjusting then you can drag the adjustment layers to other images.

So how do I do this?

1 – Open your image

2 – Select Adjustment layer (see picture below)

3 – Make your adjustment

4 – Select okay

5 – When done save as a PSD file so that next time you open it the layers will still be accessible and adjustable.

It is as easy as that!