Preserved Topic: Adjustment-layer on a layerset... (Page 1 of 1)

Isn't there a way to create an adjustment-layer
that only affects the layerset that I apply the adjustment-layer on?

When I add an adjustment-layer it seems to affect every single
layer I've got no matter if they belong to a layerset or not! :s

hmm... try to put the adjustment layer as the top-most-layer in the layerset.
if this doesn't work consult the :FAQ: or RTM
/OlssonE

If you want an adjustment layer to affect just the layer below it, hold alt and click on the line between the two layers in the palette. That's called a clipping group.

If you want an adjustment layer to affect only certain layers below it, your best bet is to use the mask that comes with the adjustment layer.

More on layer masking can be found on the gurus network. (see the button at the bottom of the page?)

Put the adjustment layer into a clipping group. After creating the adjustment layer, put it directly above the layer you want it to affect, then hold Alt/Option while clicking on the boundary between the two layers (in the Layers palette).

edit: To affect an entire layer set, you can put multiple layers into the same clipping group. Just experiment with it.

[This message has been edited by Perfect Thunder (edited 12-28-2002).]

Yeah, clipping-groups did the trick. Thanks! =)

Clipping groups are another one of those Photoshop features that isn't particularly obvious -- and furthermore, it doesn't really leap right out of the manual, and many Photoshop books don't make a big deal of out it -- so that you can spend years and years with Photoshop without ever knowing about them. I'm constantly being surprised by little things like that.

Yeah, and it is a bit weird technique too.
Since the bottom-layer in the clipping-group acts like the mask or the "hole" in the layers above it.

Luckily for me. The book "Photoshop 4 Complete" from "Hayden books" covers it pretty well.
Amazing that, that book still holds most of the essential basic functions of Photoshop. That says
something about that the basics in Photoshop is still there just like in previous versions.

..about the "weird" technique.. I meant that,
It's more logic to have the mask on top of the other layers isn't it?

Imageing that the mask is actually a paper with a hole in it that hides everything
but what can be seen downwards through the hole..

But as said, clipping-groups works the other way around with the mask at the bottom..

Well the idea for clipping groups stems from there use in postscript also invented by Adobe, Postscript is a stack based language similar to lisp.

When processing items in a stack the mask would need to be placed below the data to be cliped, as once an item is processed it no longer exists on the stack and there for could no be processed.

Example :

item ----