Nondestructive editing, Techniques for nondestructive editing – Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 v.14.xx User Manual
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Nondestructive editing
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Working with adjustment layers
Transforming with Smart Objects
Filtering with Smart Filters
Adjusting variations, shadows, and highlights with Smart Objects
Retouching on a separate layer
Editing in Camera Raw
Opening Camera Raw files as Smart Objects
Cropping non-destructively
Masking
Techniques for nondestructive editing
Techniques for nondestructive editing
Nondestructive editing allows you to make changes to an image without overwriting the original image data, which remains available in case you
want to revert to it. Because nondestructive editing doesn’t remove data from an image, the image quality doesn’t degrade when you make edits.
You can perform nondestructive editing in Photoshop in several ways:
Adjustment layers apply color and tonal adjustments to an image without permanently changing pixel values.
Smart Objects enable nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping.
Filters applied to Smart Objects become Smart Filters and allow for nondestructive filter effects.
Shadow/Highlight and Variations commands can be applied to a Smart
Object as Smart Filters.
Clone Stamp, Healing Brush, and Spot Healing Brush tools let you retouch non-destructively on a separate
layer. Be sure to select Sample All Layers from the options bar (select Ignore Adjustment Layers to ensure that adjustment layers won’t affect the
separate layer twice). You can discard unsatisfactory retouching, if necessary.
Adjustments to batches of raw, JPEG, or TIFF images preserve the original image data. Camera Raw stores adjustment
settings on a per-image basis separately from the original image files.
Before you can edit Camera Raw files in Photoshop, you must configure settings for them with
Camera Raw. Once you edit a Camera Raw file in Photoshop, you can’t reconfigure Camera Raw settings without losing the changes. Opening
Camera Raw files in Photoshop as Smart Objects enables you to reconfigure Camera Raw settings at any time, even after you edit the file.
After you create a cropping rectangle with the Crop tool, select Hide from the options bar to preserve the cropped
area in a layer. Restore the cropped area anytime by choosing Image > Reveal All or by dragging the Crop tool beyond the edge of the image.
The Hide option is unavailable for images that contain only a background layer.
Layer and vector masks are nondestructive because you can re-edit the masks without losing the pixels they hide. Filter masks let you
mask out the effects of Smart Filters on Smart Object layers.
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