Auto Smart Fix with an adjustment layer?

Is it possible to do an Auto Smart Fix in an adjustment layer? If yes, how is it best done?
Thank you

What are you trying to accomplish? You always have the option of duplicating the background layer and using Auto Smart Fix on the copy. This isn't exactly the same as an Adjustment Layer, but there is no way to make further adjustments to the Auto Smart Fix anyway, like you could with one of the other Adjustment Layer options.

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It's not a matter of version numbers. Photoshop has never had anything called "Auto Smart Fix".
Photoshop Elements usually contains various watered-down "preset" options for beginner users as opposed to more advanced users using the Full PS. Options such as the Red-eye Reduction Tool and if you go far enough back Page Curl in Photoshop LE are examples.
If you are refering to versions as the difference between PS Elements and PS or PS Extended then you are correct they do not have "Auto Smart Fix".
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Many thanks
Jeremy

Bother, sorry it was really as simple as that.
Many thanks from a slightly stupid user <grin

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I use PSE 9.0.3.
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It's time to fix the Curves adjustment layer

Many Photoshop users consider the Curves panel to be Photoshop's most important feature. For many Curves users, the Layer panel introduced in CS4 does not offer the speed, the instinctive use, nor the superior results of the older Curves Layer panel. The Curves dialog includes all the features that long-time users rely on. Some of these features have not been included in the Adjustment Layer version. They should all be available in the Layers panel, too.

Adobe has already done a few things to fix the early complaints about the Curves panel. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to the Targeted Adjustment Tool so that you don't have to click the icon with the mouse. In the Keyboard Shortcut editor, choose Tools from the Shortcuts For menu, then scroll down until you find Targeted Adjustment Tool. There is no shortcut right now, because basically all of them are already in use. You get to pick the shortcut to give up in another part of the program. This shortcut can make it faster to add points by clicking the image (for fans of the old Command-click technique).
Once your points are added, you can still move them with the arrow keys as you always could. Also (a lot of people don't know this), you can select the next/previous points along your curve by pressing the + or - keys. So if you just need to fine-tune each point, when any point is selected just press + or - to step over to the point you want to adjust and then start hitting the arrow keys.
If you put these techniques together, it comes very close to the old Command-click and arrow-key techniqes in the old Curves dialog. In the Curves panel you can perform the adjustments described below, using the keyboard to both navigate and adjust the curve points while keeping your eye on the Info panel and the curve shape.
DMarley wrote:
The alternative approach is to command-click or shift-command-click on the light point, leave the cursor at that location, and then manipulate the curve point (or points) with the arrow keys. This lets you evaluate changes with the Info panel values which are more reliable than the display appearance. After following the same steps for a dark point, flat sections of the curve can repaired by adding additional points and dragging to straighten the curve throughout the range of the important image areas. The focus should be the Info panel numbers and the shape of the curve.
Now as far as the size of the graph goes...
Hudechrome wrote:
So that there is a qualitative change in how they behave isn't a deal breaker for me unless things like resolution (of the curve change not pixels!) suffers, which in turn is connected to how well one can see and manipulate the curve points. That is where the diminished size of the plot comes into play.
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Hi, I have just started trying to teach myself javascript. Based on preliminary research, it's become apparent that there are many functions in Photoshop that are either extremely cumbersome or impossible to code by hand without using the Script Listener.
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As my first script, I realize this is probably going to be a lot of work.
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Sounds simple enough from a conceptual standpoint.
I'm looking for some guidance on how to get started.
Which parts will I definitely need Scriptlistener for and will that be adequate to do the job?
How would you recommend I get started on this?
Thanks very much for any input.

The function I had provided was an example into which you would need to feed the values you got with Mike’s code.
The code below would create a Curves Layer as shown in the screenshot, but I’m not sure it would work reasonably for all cases.
// with code by mike hale;
// 2012, use it at your own risk;
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#target photoshop
createCurveAdjustmetFromColorSamplers();
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            var idpresetKindType = stringIDToTypeID( "presetKindType" );
            var idpresetKindDefault = stringIDToTypeID( "presetKindDefault" );
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        var idpresetKind = stringIDToTypeID( "presetKind" );
        var idpresetKindType = stringIDToTypeID( "presetKindType" );
        var idpresetKindCustom = stringIDToTypeID( "presetKindCustom" );
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            var list1 = new ActionList();
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PS crashes with New Adjustment Layer . . .

I'm using PS4, and now suddenly when I try to apply a new adjustment layer Photoshop crashes.
Any suggestions?

I have version 11.0.2, the latest. But the crash report is very long.
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x003a0003 0x1000 + 3796995
1   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0007c732 0x1000 + 505650
2   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0007c732 0x1000 + 505650
3   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x000775e7 0x1000 + 484839
4   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0073aa04 0x1000 + 7576068
5   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0007c732 0x1000 + 505650
6   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x00734210 0x1000 + 7549456
7   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0073606c 0x1000 + 7557228
8   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0073b8aa 0x1000 + 7579818
9   com.adobe.Photoshop               0x00069b05 0x1000 + 428805
10 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x00069da7 0x1000 + 429479
11 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0006ae23 0x1000 + 433699
12 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x000628f0 0x1000 + 399600
13 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0006a6e5 0x1000 + 431845
14 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x00063c65 0x1000 + 404581
15 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x00063dd3 0x1000 + 404947
16 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x0006212f 0x1000 + 397615
17 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x002205da 0x1000 + 2225626
18 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x00220666 0x1000 + 2225766
19 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x00003812 0x1000 + 10258
20 com.adobe.Photoshop               0x00003739 0x1000 + 10041
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eac382 kevent + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eaca9c _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 215
2   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eabf59 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 163
3   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eabcfe _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 240
4   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eab781 _pthread_wqthread + 390
5   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eab5c6 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 2:
0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99e85b42 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eb36f8 _pthread_cond_wait + 1089
2   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99efc05f pthread_cond_wait + 48
3   com.adobe.amt.services            0x09c20552 AMTConditionLock::LockWhenCondition(int) + 46
4   com.adobe.amt.services            0x09c1b995 _AMTThreadedPCDService::PCDThreadWorker(_AMTThreadedPCDService*) + 115
5   com.adobe.amt.services            0x09c205b0 AMTThread::Worker(void*) + 20
6   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eb3259 _pthread_start + 345
7   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eb30de thread_start + 34
Thread 3:
0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99e85b4e semaphore_timedwait_trap + 10
1   ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore    0x99826942 MPWaitOnSemaphore + 125
2   MultiProcessor Support            0x25c32eff 0x25c03000 + 196351
3   ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore    0x997f454a PrivateMPEntryPoint + 68
4   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eb3259 _pthread_start + 345
5   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x99eb30de thread_start + 34
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When I am in Edit, why are Smart Fix and Balance unavailable to me?

When I am in Edit, why are Smart Fix and Balance unavailable to me?

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During the process, I do get the message to delete the organizer, or editor config. files, but when I click on Auto Smart Fix in the Organizer, it does not give me a list of options, it still defaults to the .PNG files! This is quite frustrating. I had the same problem with Elements 11, but the fix mentioned above did work.
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Hey all, simple question hopefully.
I'm developing a lower third for a group at school, and I have a bluish layer with an adjustment layer underneath which has a box blur. The idea is for the video under the blue layer to be blurred.
The blue layer linear wipes from the logo, so i figured I could linear wipe the adjustment layer as well. But when I try, I get black where the underlying image should be.
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Thanks,
Dan

I was confused at first then understood what you meant. Thanks.
If I may ask, why does it do this? Shouldn't it just behave like a normal transition?

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I have the image now "cleaned up," having taken out the yellow color casts, etc., and have a grayscale 8-Bit image in the Photoshop file.
I've discovered that I can use an adjustment TO the layer itself, or an adjustment layer on the layer in the grayscale image to take away some of the density and "open up" the line art a little, so it has better details by effectively "choking" the dark lines back to make them less thick and dense.
Here's the thing, though:
When I tried making the adjustments via image > adjustments > levels DIRECTLY ON the layer (instead of using and adjustment layer to achieve this), every time I hit the OK button to accept the adjustments I've made that way, the dialog box closes and the layer seems to revert to looking just the same as it did BEFORE I opened the dialog box to adjust the layer!
When I try making the adjustments by using an adjustment LAYER, and I try to save the Photoshop image as a TIFF file, I find that when I open the saved TIFF image, the layer adjustment I'm seeing in the source Photoshop file has NOT been applied, and the image in the saved TIFF file looks just as dense as the original, unadjusted image in the Photoshop file!
What am I doing wrong here? I want to be able to save out that adjusted image as a TIFF file to use in designs, but I cannot seem to save it as a TIFF that actually CONTAINS or reflects these adjustments after having MADE the adjustments!
Whazzup?!!

Well, I took the layered TIFF file you gave to me and opened it in Photoshop, reviewed the adjustment layer in there and its effect -- thanks: you get what I was trying to do -- and then saved it out as a flat TIFF image, and when I reopened it, voila! it looked like the adjustment had indeed been applied. So this IS a real head-scratcher indeed.
I've now tried going back to my source file and doing the same thing. One thing that I notice is that when I do the Save As of the TIFF with the adjustment layer in it (OR the PSD file, for that matter), when I go to Save YOUR file, the Layer Compression Options are grayed out, but when I go to Save MY file, the Layer Compression Options are active. I've tried now saving both with RLE layer compression AND As a Copy ("discard layers and save a copy"), and neither works.
I noticed, too, that your file had the layer below the adjustment layer still as a "Background," instead of a named layer, so I went back and applied an adjustment layer to a copy of my TIFF file, leaving the image in its layer as a Background layer, and still this did not work.
The only other difference I saw between your TIFF file and mine, is that mine contained transparency, as I've silhouetted away a portion of the image to isolate the central image of the scanned engraving. But even when transparency is not a factor (i.e. I go back and start with a flattened, nontransparent image layer of my TIFF file with a single Background Layer, and I apply the adjustment layer to that, I get the compression options grayed out on Save, and STILL the saved TIFF image I get out of it has "reverted" to the unadjusted appearance.

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