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Photo Enhancement with Adjustment Layers
Paint Shop Pro Tutorial By Ron Lacey

(If you arrived on this page from a search, you should begin the tutorial from page one.)

As I mentioned earlier none of these adjustment are carved in stone and, if you save this image as a PSP format file you can return to it later and change or remove any of the adjustments you made. Give it a try, save your example as a *.PSP file then close it. Now reopen the same file and go to the Layer palette. You'll see all three adjustment layers just where you left them. Click the visibility icon for each of the adjustment layers to turn them off and you will see your original image unaltered. You can turn each one on individually to see what affect any one adjustment layer has on the image.

If you decided one of the adjustments wasn't all it could be highlight that layer in the Layer palette, right click, and select Properties from the drop down menu to revisit the Adjustment layer properties dialog. Make your changes and click OK.

Using the opacity slider you can decrease the effect that layer has on the image.

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