Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 253

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 243 User Guide Fill layers do not have any effect on the layers underneath them. The fill layer options are solid color, gradient, or pattern. Once you create an adjustment or fill layer, you can easily edit the settings, or dynamically replace it with a different adjustment or fill type. When you create an adjustment layer, its effect appears on all the layers below it. This lets you correct multiple layers by making a single adjustment, rather than making the adjustment to each layer separately. Adjustment layers can be applied and edited only in Photoshop; however, they can be viewed in ImageReady. When you apply an adjustment layer to a layer set, Photoshop adds the new adjustment layer in the layer set above the existing layers. For more information, see "Making color adjustments" in online Help. To confine the effects of an adjustment layer to a group of layers, create a clipping group consisting of these layers. You can place the adjustment layers in or at the base of the clipping group. The adjustment will be confined to the layers inside the set. (See "Creating clipping groups" on page 218.) Alternatively, you can create a layer set, and have the set use any blending mode other than Pass Through. Original, adjustment layer applied to zebra only, and adjustment layer applied to entire image Creating adjustment layers or fill layers Adjustment layers and fill layers have the same opacity and blending mode options as image layers and can be rearranged, deleted, hidden, and duplicated in the same manner. By default, adjustment layers and fill layers have layer masks, as indicated by the mask icon to the left of the layer thumbnail. If a path is active when you create the adjustment or fill layer, a layer clipping path is created instead of a layer mask. When an adjustment layer or fill layer is active, the foreground and background colors default to grayscale values so you can easily edit the mask. Adjustment layers You can also specify a color adjustment type for an adjustment layer. Depending on your choice, the dialog box for the selected adjustment command may appear. The adjustment layer takes the name of the adjustment type and is indicated in the Layers palette by a thumbnail linked to a partially filled circle. By painting the adjustment layer, you can apply the content to just portions of the underlying layers. For more information, see "Making color adjustments" in online Help. Fill layers The fill layer takes the name of the fill type and is indicated by a color, pattern, or gradient icon to the left of the thumbnail. Fill layers are primarily used with layer clipping paths. For example, when you create a new layer clipping path, it gets filled with a solid color by default. You can later choose to change it to a gradient or pattern fill layer. At times, you may also want to create a new color, pattern, or gradient layer independently of the shape tools.