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Yes, that's pretty easy. Let's assume your image in in the background layer. You need only one layer mask actually, and that layer mask will be in layer A, on top of the background layer. Put your other layer B on top of A. Now press the Alt key and move your cursor right in between the two layers in the layers panel. The cursor should change to some kind of ...
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This is easy. First, if you don't have the Layers window open go to the Windows menu and choose it. You don't actually need that, but it's handy. It's a small "utility" window which typically floats near the right side of your screen. And open your file, if you haven't yet. With that window open, you can click on the existing layer in the image (probably ...
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Think of that layer as the actual 'image'. That is a simplification, but it serves a point. If you duplicate it, feel free to remove it. Or you could just drag the lock-icon to the trash-icon and edit the background layer directly. I usually duplicate the background layer and do my sharpening on the duplicated layer, so I can go back, reduce the sharpening ...
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Yes, two ways I know of:
Go to the channels palette.
Select the channel you want.
Ctrl-click (Cmd-Click on a Mac), to copy the channel.
Then go back to your layer and add your mask
or
create a blank, white mask on your layer
make sure the mask is selected
go to Image > Apply Image
select the channel you want from the channel dropdown
click ...
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In short, no. What you're doing is not really related. Layer masks are basically ways of working with the alpha channel of a layer. Adjustment layers aren't really layers at all — they're ways of thinking of filters within the same metaphor. They don't actually accomplish anything you couldn't do simply by applying the filters in the traditional way. ...
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I may be wrong, but I don't think that what you are looking for is feasible. The layer opacity is called that because it applies to the whole layer, and the only thing you can do is make part of the layer more transparent by increasing alpha, not less.
If you want to modulate higher, then you must select either 100% opacity for that layer (probably the ...
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You can also select the area you want to crop to with the rectangular marquee tool, invert your selection, then delete the now selected outside area. This is different from the layer mask in that it completely deletes the surrounding area, whereas the mask makes the surrounding area invisible.
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Use a layer mask. Tutorials galore exist on the topic already, eg: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/masking-layers.html
Straight from Adobe:
You can add a mask to a layer and use the mask to hide portions of the layer and reveal the layers below. Masking layers is a valuable compositing technique for combining multiple photos into a single image ...
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Open both documents select the group you want to move and now you have 2 options:
Right-click on the group (in the layers tab) and click "Duplicate Group..." Under "Destination" change the value "Document" with the target document (the one that will receive the Group). The layers will be aligned to TOP-LEFT.
Drag and drop group of layers in the second ...
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Instead of merging the layers together, try to convert them to a Smart Object. The smart object contains all the original layer data (which also can be later edited — just double click the smart object), but appears as a "single layer" in the Layers window.
If you now apply the Unsharp Mask filter to the smart object, it is created as Smart filter and ...
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This appears to be a bug within the type of Color Lookup profile. The abstract profiles can be duplicated, while the 3DLUT and Device Link fail.
You will also notice that the Color Lookup layer will persist across changes to the document bit depth only when it is an abstract profile. The layer will be removed with either of the other profile types.
The ...
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Unless I am missing something, if your final step before sharpening is to copy all the previous layers and merge them into a single new layer...then you should only have to apply sharpening to that final layer.
The nature of sharpening algorithms generally won't allow them to work seamlessly "across" multiple layers. Even if they did, I'm not sure why you ...
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Well Shadow/Highlights will darken highlights and lighten shadows.
In Overlay mode, lighter grays will lighten and darker grays will darken.
So if you want to darken a highlight, you need a darker gray. To lighten the shadows you need a lighter grey.
In other words, you need an inverse of the original image, to some degree.
What I would do is start with ...
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After you make your adjustments in ACR, press Shift and then instead of Open Image, you'll see Open Object. That will create the layer as a smart object and you can then go back to ACR from that smart object layer. I believe you'd have to have known to do that from the start. I'm not aware of anyway to reopen a layer in ACR after the fact if you haven't ...
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I don't think you can easily do this with multiple masks. You need to use a single mask, but clip your adjustment layers to that one mask.
Assume you have your main background layer called Layer1, a colour balance adjustment layer above that, and hue/sat adjustment layer on top.
Put the colour balance and hue/saturation layers in a group (I do this, not ...
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