Adjustment Layers and Photoshop

Is it possible to import adjustment layers from Photoshop to use in a Premiere Pro CS6 timeline? This could open up some options for color grading.

http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/importing-still-images.html
excerpt:
Import a layered Photoshop file
When you import a layered file saved in Photoshop file formats, you can choose how to import the layers in the Import Layered File dialog box.
Note:
Some Photoshop layer attributes aren’t supported, such as special blending modes and the Knockout option. For best results, use basic transparency and opacity in Photoshop. Adobe Premiere Pro does support most Photoshop blending modes.
Premiere Pro imports attributes that were applied in the original file, including position, opacity, visibility, transparency (alpha channel), layer masks, adjustment layers, common layer effects, layer clipping paths, vector masks, and clipping groups. Photoshop exports a white background as opaque white, whereas it exports a checkerboard background as a transparent alpha channel when exporting to a format that supports alpha channels.
Importing layered Photoshop files makes it easy to use graphics created in Photoshop. When Premiere Pro imports Photoshop files as unmerged layers, each layer in the file becomes an individual clip in a bin. Each clip’s name consists of the layer name followed by the name of the file that contained it. Each layer is imported with the default duration you select for still images in Preferences.

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Same answer. Adjustment layers tend to need either very soft masking with a high level of feathering, or very precise using a small fairly hard brush.
But if I was doing the latter, it would be to adjust one particular part of the image, in which case I would usually make an acurate selection of that area before I opened the adjustment layer. This automatically fils the layer mask to your selection.
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I'm having trouble recovering a few things that used to work really well in CS3 and before. How do I do the following in CS4?
1. Control-tab used to cycle through adjustment points in a curve and I could then use arrow keys to move adjustment points around. Control-tab does nothing in CS4 and I don't see a way to set it with keyboard shortcut settings.
2. In CS3 and earlier I could edit the settings of an adjustment layer and clicking OK would save the changes AND add a history entry. In CS4 it seems that adding the history layer is implicit. Is there a better way than selecting some other layer and going back? I can't find a keyboard shortcut that adds a history entry (e.g. hitting enter) that is equivalent to clicking OK. The "reset to previous state" button in the adjustment panel seems to hold only the previous state.

Clearly having a new history point at every move of a point on a curve would be too much history. The old system created a history point every time you clicked OK, making it quite obvious when a new checkpoint was saved. The new system is more ambiguous.
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I am trying to animate an adjustment layer in Flash with Photoshop. The only way to describe the effect I'm looking for is if you apply an adjustment layer to an image/photoshop file (i.e. Hue/Saturation) and move the slide bar from one side to another. This effect works well with pictures that have multiple colors. I might be able to provide a video of this effect if my description is confusing.
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How to merge adjustment layers to several layers and export layers to files

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I have now exactly the same problem as below with over 1000 images, I have saved them in .psd that has over 100 layers each. On top of those there is curves and levels layer that affects every layer below. I want to save all images to .jpg for videoedit with those curves at least. I don't want to merge same curves 100 times. Is there a solution in phothoshop cs5 or cs6 available? Would save alot of working hours. All I have got by this far is blank white images of adjustment layers and non adjusted jpg-files.
This discussion was opened in 2010 and I quess this is same problem:
How to merge adjustment layers to hundreds of layers?
Jul 28, 2010 10:38 AM
Say I have a photoshop File with 100 layers. And say I created 3 adjustment layers on top of those 100 layers to get the adjustments that i want for those layers. I'm happy with the adjustments but Then I NEED to merge those 3 adjustment layers to ALL those 100 layers. Is there a way to easily permanently apply the adjustments to each of those layers without having to do it manually? I absolutely need to merge the adjustments to the seperate layers because of how the layers are being used in a seperate 3d program.
So far what I've been doing is duplicating the adjustment layers for each layer and merging them to said layers separately.. Anyone have a better way? I wish I could just right click the adjustment layer and Tell it to merge to everylayer it affects or apply to every layer underneath it!
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first
doing action on one photo only with any effects or filtters .
second
doing Droplet = File > Automate > Create Droplet.
for more details with pictures here
http://www.absba.org/showthread.php?t=1172143

Saving and reusing adjustment layers

Hi, I feel like what I'm trying to do should be easy, but I can't figure it out.
I have a set of files that I'd like to apply the same set of adjustment layers to. I opened one of the images, created the adjustment layers, and tweaked the settings until I was happy. Now I'd like to create an action that would apply this set of layers to multiple files in batch mode. I understand that if I were to record my adjustment layer creation, I could replay this, but I didn't record - I have a set of layers (I even saved them to a separate file) but no way to retrace my steps. I could do all this by hand by duplicating my adjustment layer group to files that I open, but I can't find a way to automate this. Any help?
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If I correctly understand your question, then my naswer is yes - you can reuse adjustment layers. Say you have a psd file which contains a layer with your image and several adjustment layers on top. To apply those same adjustment layers to other images convert the image layer to a smart object and save the file as your primary image file. I expect the following simple sequence, which is actionable, can be put in a batch process though I've never done it as I can manually click through images as fast as I can hit the keys.
The main features of the action are to open the primary file and right click on the smart object. From the drop down list choose Replace Contents. This brings up a Place window from which you select ( double click) the next image and that image appears in Photoshop's main window with all adjustments applied. Click on save and repeat the process for the next image.
It is rare that I need the same adjustment layers to be applied to many images- it seems that often times each image requires slightly different adjustment settings. The above process, however, works for other operations as well, say filters (smart) or Calculations which I may apply to multiple images.
Paulo

Adjustment layers preference ?

got a question about my adjustment layers and I'm not quite sure how to word this so please bare with me if I sound vague. Today whenever I make a new adjustment layer instead of getting a normal adjustment layer it seems connected to the previous layer and has a 90 degree arrow pointing down. I have restarted PS CS 4. I have not trashed my preferences, waiting hoping to learn how to correct it without doing that. Can anyone help me understand what is going on and what this 90 degree arrow is? I have attached a picture with it circled in red to help explain what I'm talking about. Thanks Jeff

The arrow means that the layer below will clip the adjustment layer. If you were to place another layer below your background, and delete some of the background, the clipped adjustment layer would not affect the new layer below. Another way to look at it is the clipped layer will respect the transparency of the layer below.
Command-option-g or layer > create/release clipping mask
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7853a.html

How to merge adjustment layers to hundreds of layers?

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So far what I've been doing is duplicating the adjustment layers for each layer and merging them to said layers separately.. Anyone have a better way? I wish I could just right click the adjustment layer and Tell it to merge to everylayer it affects or apply to every layer underneath it!
Anyone?
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Record an action starting with your adjustments on top, with all of the adjustment layers selected.
1 - Duplicate the adjustment layers
2 - Select backward layer (alt-[)
3 - Select backward layer with add (alt-shift-[)
4 - Repeat step 3 as many times as needed (for three adjustments this would be twice more)
5 - Merge layers
6 - Select forward layer (alt-])
7 - Select forward layer with add (alt-shift-])
8 - Repeat 7 as needed (for three adjustments it would be once more)
9 - Move to previous layer (ctrl-[)
Then run it 100 times. Or duplicate these steps a few times and run the 5-up action 20 times. To retain the original layer name, you could dupe the image layer, and move the original to the top of the stack (alt-] a few times) about to be merged and reduce its opacity to 0%. The basic idea is to use alt-], alt-shift-] and ctrl-] to navigate around, and record an action that gets you can to square 1, except that your adjustments have been dropped down to the next layer below.
You could also export layers to files, batch them by adding and merging the adjustment layers, and then loading them back into the stack. Or use pixel replacement variables to do much the same thing.

Imitating Camera Raw Calibration settings with Adjustment layers

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I do quite a lot color grading and color manipulation with Lightroom, Photoshop and Speedgrade.
Sometimes I like to use Camera Raw "Camera calibration" Settings to play with hues of the image.
I have yet to found a way to imitate or reproduce the look with Adjustment layers inside Photoshop.
I have tried with channel mixers and hue/saturation adjustment layers with no good results.
I want to use Adjustment Layers because then I can export the look as Lookup table for other applications.
Do you have any hints how i could achieve these kind of effects as in the sample image below?
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This mode in Camera Raw / Camera Calibration adjusts the three primaries of the camera sensor.
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of the working space.
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(neg) shift toward-----Original------(pos) shift toward
magenta-----------------red-------------yellow
yellow--------------------green----------cyan
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Can I convert a series of adjustment layers into a single action?

Hello,
I have a Photoshop CS6 document with 20-some adjustment layers and would like to be able to apply their effect to multiple image files. I'm looking for a way to convert the series of adjustment layers into a single action so that I can batch process a set of images. Can this be done?
Unless I'm missing something, it appears that no trivial solution exisits. For example, there's no option that allows for selecting the adjustment layers, right clicking them, and choosing 'convert to action.' What I want to avoid is having to redo each adjustment layer just for the sake of recording an action.
Also, I understand that I can always "place" (i.e. drag and drop) the image requiring processing into the Photoshop document containing the adjustment layers, saving a merged copy as jpeg, and repeat... but such a manual method would border on insulting to this prowess of a program.
If anyone can get creative and suggest a method of recording an action that can make use of the document with the adjustment layers and a variable document that will be passed through during the batch process, I'm all eyes!
Many thanks.

_zeppelin2 wrote:
Hello,
Also, I understand that I can always "place" (i.e. drag and drop) the image requiring processing into the Photoshop document containing the adjustment layers, saving a merged copy as jpeg, and repeat... but such a manual method would border on insulting to this prowess of a program.
If anyone can get creative and suggest a method of recording an action that can make use of the document with the adjustment layers and a variable document that will be passed through during the batch process, I'm all eyes!
You have the other choice with drag/drop or duplicate where you copy the adjustment layers into the other image document. Target all the adjustment layers in the layer palette click on the first one the Ctrl|CMD+click on the others or if adjacent Shift+click on the last one to target all the adjustment layer then use menu Layer>Duplicate Layers... and use the pull down menu in the pop-up dialog to choose the other open image document.
You can of course record an action when you add all the adjustment layers then play that action on the other images. Twenty adjustment layer on top of an image seems a bit extreme to me.

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I use Photoshop CC 2014 on OSX 10.7.5.
Today I started to record an action. I added some adjustement layers and did some adjustements. But the action did only record the adding of the adjustement layers, but not the adjustement or the changes I did on those layers.
What happend? The last time I recorded actions it all worked out...
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I'm trying to adjust brightness/contrast and saturation over about 30 layers on an animated GIF. Everything looks great until I do a save for web and click on the animate box. At that point, the color/changes drop off completely. It shows up fine when it's just the one layer being shown. And it seems to be showing up on all the layers when I'm in the main edit window. I keep looking and making sure I have the 'this adjustment affects all layers below,' and I do. I even tried saving a GIF with the other setting turned on and I got the same thing.
Anyway, I exported a few GIFs, thinking maybe the adjustment layers would kick in as it saved, but nope. Neither layer saved into the exported GIF.
I'm sure this is just a simple setting I'm missing, but I'm banging my head against the desk at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Thanks! I'm still trying my best to sort out why the adjustment layers drop off when I go to animate the GIF ... BUT I did duplicate the adjustment layers -- one for each frame -- and then clicked on the adjustment layers and selected layer and merged them one at a time and it worked. It's still more tedious than I hoped, but not as tedious as trying to adjust each layer on its own and having to input the same exact settings for each layer.
I would still be interested in anyone else's take/advice on applying adjustments to all the layers in an image at the same time and having it cary through to 'save for web.' Animated GIFs are so simple in theory, but I'm finding them to be absolutely one of the most frustrating and tedious things to try and edit/create.

Trying to understand the use of adjustment layers

I think I am missing something here so thought I would bring it here for discussion.
I am learning to do Adjustment Layers and when I do an adjustment layer of levels and then another of hue/saturation it has no way of confirming my choices. If then want to do Shadows/Highlights it will not work change anything and I think it is because I have not confirmed the adjustment layer. What do I need to do after doing the adjustment layer to go ahead and do something else no as an adjustment layer on the photo OR is that impossible. How to make this work????
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An Adjustment layer effects all visible pixles in the layers below itself. So if you have a Levels Adjustment Layer and the Background layer below, the entire Background layer is affected. If you have another layer above the Background that is not an Adjustment Layer but only covers have the entire image space, the Levels Adjustment will effect the additional layer and the visible parts of the Background layer. If you add a second Adjustment layer, the effects stack. The lower of the Adjustments is applied first, the second is applied afterward, moving upward.
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