CS4 Adjustment Layer Panel - Where Is OK Icon

1. Clicked on Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves (or, in the alternative, the Crate New Fill Or Adjustment Layer icon at bottom of Layers panel, then selected Curves (it need not have been Curves - any adjustment poses the same issue).
2. Did my adjustment.
3. Photoshop CS4 for Dummies, p. 363 says, "In the adjustment's dialog box, make any edits and then click OK."
4. The book, "Using Adobe Photoshop CS4" by Adobe, also refers to the "OK."
I have examined my computer display for 40 minutes and cannot find an "OK" icon/button. Can you help me locate it? I'm aware I don't have to find it as I can just go on with my work, since the layer has been created and I know how to close the Adjustments panel, but I want to find the darn OK icon/button.
Note: I'm also aware of how to open the Window > Adjustments panel.
Thanks.

“Layers, The Complete Guide To Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature”
By Matt Kloskowski
Peachpit Press (2008) [A really fine book]
Page 63: “Go over to the Layers panel. Look at the very bottom for the little half-black/half-white circle icon. This is the Create New Adjustment Layer icon. Click on it…”
Page 64: “Since you’re already there, choose Hue/Saturation from the pop-up menu to add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. You’ll see the Hue/Saturation dialog open. Drag the Hue setting to -32. That changes the color of the daisy to orange.
Once you’ve settled on a color, click OK to close the Hue/Saturation dialog.”

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Your screenshot is the same in my Photoshop, nothing wrong there.
An adjustment layer works like this: You dial in your setting and the settings stay put in that adjustment layer. You just save the file. File > Save to keep it.
If it started as a jpeg, it will be saved as a psd copy to keep the adjustment layer.
When you re-open your psd file and click on your Color Balance layer, the setting are where you last left them and you can change the settings if you want.
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I'm not sure if this is a setting, or a bug, or the way adobe intended it, but perhaps some of you may know.
In Photoshop CS4, I have a few color samplers around the stage. I notice that the color readouts require that I make some adjustments using a curves layer. I add the curves adjustment layer and start to make adjustments. The only problem is that while I have an adjustment layer selected (so I can make changes to it) my color sampler readouts in the info panel display blank.
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THanks for the prompt reply. Your suggestion to "reset workspaces" worked.
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Thanks, I might try that, but the B&W adjustment layer isn't really a "tool" and the on-image picker is unique to that panel - so I'm not sure what resetting a tool preference (or all tool preferences for that matter) would do.
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The interesting thing is that there is an colorization saturation adjustment slider in the imag-adjustment-black and white dialog as shown below.
The lack of that slider in the adjustment panel is a bug in CS4. It was present in CS3.
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Using Windows 7 Ult, 64-bit:
I notice when I alt-click an adjustment layer icon, the layer automatically drops in with a default name--rather than giving me an opportunity to type a name for the A/L via the "new layer" dialog box. For example, in CS5, when you alt-click on the hue/saturation ajustment layer icon, you are given a dialog box in which you can name the layer, select clipping mask, blend mode, color select, etc--then the layer populates in the composition. In CS6 beta, when I hold the "alt" key and click the adjustment layer icon for hue/sat, I'm not getting the new layer dialog box at all. Is this a bug or a modifier key change in CS6?

It should still work from the layers panel. You have to hold the alt key before going to the adjustments menu at the bottom of the layers panel.
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Ive upgraded to CS4 and I have found that the curves Adjustment layer runs slow and sticky and Its difficult to make fine adjustments. (the regular curves window works fine but you cant save it as an adjustment layer) I am running 10.5.6 on a 2x3 GHz Dual-core intel with 9gb of ram, a scratch disk of raid 0 with 500gb of freespace. This should not be a problem for my machine. is there a setting I am missing or is CS4 no good?

I understand your annoyance about this. I didn't say it doesn't work, it does.
"fine, critical moves that are intuitive and subtle" that's the problem with the new adjustments panel, it is more difficult to make these fine adjustments, still possible just less responsive. You can still bring up the old dialog.
Did you do a search to find my explanation of how to use CS3 to create Actions that will bring up the modal dialog? I'm not going to take the time to explain it again, if you haven't done this. There is also a Configurator panel that John Knack posted has two buttons 'create new curve' and 'edit existing curve'. Configurator is a new app that Adobe have introduced. Read all the discussions so far on the forum.

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Hi
Recently all the icons in my adjustment layers show the same, this being the 'Add Adjustment Layer Button' . I still get the curves, photo filter etc adjustments - it is just the icon that remanins the same. Why is is doing this.
Many thanks.

Ah! ok.
It is normal. It was not clear from your message that you were talking about the icons in the layers panel.
The icon changes according to the shape of the document, if you have a picture with a ratio bigger than 2x3, it'll be ok.
You can change the size of the tumbnails by going to the menu of the layers panel, and selecting "Panel Options..." and the adjustment layer icon will be different.
In the future, please give the full version of your operating system and of Photoshop, CC 14.2 instead of CC, or CS6 13.1.3 instead of CS6, you can find that info in help>system info...

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'Initially' my ***. Unless they improve both the performance and the interface design of the Adjustments Panel hugely. They would also have to find a way to float the panel, so it disappears.
The two 'advantages' of the panel are as follows - 1 the TAT tool allowing within image dragging to adjust values. I assume for users without the ability to grasp the concept the most powerful tool, Curves. I will admit that when it eventually is fast enough to use efficiently, and implemented smoothly, this may be a good addition. 2 - the ability to alter opacity and mode of the adjustment, without exiting the dialog. More of a choice for inexperienced users who think this should be necessary at all.
At the moment these two, relatively minor for advanced users, advantages are outweighed by the many disadvantages by a long chalk.
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[Photoshop CC 2014] Click&hold-move-release doesn't work when adding adjustment layer from the layer panel

When selecting a menu item I used to click the left mouse button and hold it down, move the pointer to the desired menu item and release the mouse button. Everything works fine in the mine menu, but there's a problem when adding new adjustment layer from the layer panel: when I release the button nothing happens, I have to press the button again. In previous PS version it worked fine. How can I fix this?

I don't think that is user fixable, meaning you'll have to wait till adobe fixes it with an update.
Photoshop cc 2014
windows does not work
mac does work
Did you already post over here:
[Photoshop CC 2014] Click&hold-move-release doesn't work when adding adjustment layer from the layer panel

CS4 won't let me erase part of an adjustment layer

I have Adobe Photoshop CS4 and what I USED to be able to do with CS3, I can no longer do. Any suggestions are welcome.
I have a photo that needs a portion of the yellow desaturated. I created a duplicate layer, did a desat adjustment, selected the mask (on the saturation layer) and tried to erase. It will do nothing. It should erase (which would bring back my original layer's colors) everything except what I don't want fully saturated.
I have reset my tools, thinking that was the problem, but no luck. Anybody have any ideas??
Oh! And this also happens with ANY adjustment layer - curves, levels, etc. etc.

I agree that the Brush Tool is the logical choice to use. However, one can paint in with the Eraser Tool, by hitting the X key. I'll often have the Eraser Tool setup with, say the Block, and my Brush Tool setup with normal "Brush" characteristics, and go between them, hitting the X key to swap the Eraser from "erasing" to painting.
I believe that this is what happened to the OP, and X will swap the colors to give one the opposite effect.
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