combine adjustment layer and selection?

Is there a simple way to combine an adjustment layer and a new selection so that the adjustment layer applies only to area in the selection?

I know I should have make the selection first, but it's too late.

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Is there a simple way to combine an adjustment layer and a new selection so that the adjustment layer applies only to area in the selection?
I know I should have make the selection first, but it's too late.

Yes. Make the Selection, with your Adjustment Layer active, and click the Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layer's palette.

If one wants to automatically create the Layer Mask when doing the Adjustment Layer, just make the Selection active, click on Adjustment Layer, and whatever adjustments being made will be done so with a Layer Mask, in the form of your Selection.

Hunt

Hunt wrote:

In article <tPlGg.19712$ says...

Is there a simple way to combine an adjustment layer and a new selection so that the adjustment layer applies only to area in the selection?
I know I should have make the selection first, but it's too late.

Yes. Make the Selection, with your Adjustment Layer active, and click the Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layer's palette.

That won't work, because an adjustment layer automatically gets a layer mask. You can't create a second one, and if you click that icon you'll get an empty vector mask. So what you have to do is trash the existing layer mask from the adjustment layer first, and then click that icon while the selection is active.

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In article <tPlGg.19712$ says...

Is there a simple way to combine an adjustment layer and a new selection so
that the adjustment layer applies only to area in the selection?

Sure. First save your work. Then right click on the layer mask that you want to modify, and choose "add layer mask to selection". Delete the layer mask, and then use "Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection" to create a new layer mask containing both the selection and the original layer mask.

Mike

In article <ePoGg.16601$>,
"Mike Russell" wrote:

want to modify, and choose "add layer mask to selection". Delete the layer mask, and then use "Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection" to create a new layer mask containing both the selection and the original layer mask.

Wow, that's the cumbersome way to di it. You can do it in one step just by making the selection and choosing the "Save Selection" command from the Select menu. In the dialog, choose "layer mask" as the destination. Viola!

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"tacit" wrote in message

In article <ePoGg.16601$>,
"Mike Russell" wrote:

want to modify, and choose "add layer mask to selection". Delete the layer
mask, and then use "Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection" to create a new layer
mask containing both the selection and the original layer mask.

Wow, that's the cumbersome way to di it. You can do it in one step just by making the selection and choosing the "Save Selection" command from the Select menu. In the dialog, choose "layer mask" as the destination. Viola!

Voila?

Excellent tip!

It is also interesting to learn the other ways to do this. Helps strengthen the understanding of photoshop.

"Mike Russell" schreef in bericht

In article <tPlGg.19712$ says...

Is there a simple way to combine an adjustment layer and a new selection so
that the adjustment layer applies only to area in the selection?

Sure. First save your work. Then right click on the layer mask that you want to modify, and choose "add layer mask to selection". Delete the layer mask, and then use "Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection" to create a new layer mask containing both the selection and the original layer mask.
Mike

Or simply fill the selection with black (while on the layermask)

"tacit" wrote in message

In article <ePoGg.16601$>,
"Mike Russell" wrote:

want to modify, and choose "add layer mask to selection". Delete the layer
mask, and then use "Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection" to create a new layer
mask containing both the selection and the original layer mask.

Wow, that's the cumbersome way to di it. You can do it in one step just by making the selection and choosing the "Save Selection" command from the Select menu. In the dialog, choose "layer mask" as the destination. Viola!

nice to know I've been using Johan's method
even though I've used save selection a million times I managed to overlook that option all this time