Painting Sharpness in an Adjustment Layer

Is there a way you can paint in sharpness or blur for that matter?
Can you use sharpness as an adjustment layer?

Very good point, Robert! I've been meaning to try that out.
Zeno Bokor wrote:
CPU's haven't gotten fast enough yet
Enter the venerable GPU and its several orders of magnitude more power for graphics.
It's clear Adobe is working to farm more and more of the grunt work tasks to it (e.g., that Liquify demo video for CS6). Perhaps we may well see more sophisticated adjustment layers in the future.
-Noel

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Using adjustment layer mask unable to paint in white to reveal adjustment

I added adjustment layer to image, changed it to black using white foreground color I unable to reveal the adjustment

Should not be a problem. Check your Brush Blending Mode in the Options bar

Need to create and adjustment layer to compensate for undesirable hue caused by lens

I’m looking for some help to set up an adjustment layer to compensate for a specific lens colouration issue. Basically I’m using a GoPro (on a drone) but I have fitted an aftermarket flat lens. Sharpness is good, but the lens has a well known issue – it results in pink hue around the edges/corners. Most of the time it is barely noticeable, other times it jumps out. It also depends on the monitor I am using eg. my TV seems to bring it out a lot more than my laptop.
Here is an example - look around 0:35 to 0:40 http://vimeo.com/117790732
And to try get an idea of where the issue is on the frame, I picked an example image of frost covered grass, very early in the morning. I then cranked up the saturation to 100% and this is what it looks like:
I would like to be able to compensate for this. Presumably this should done with an adjustment layer made in Photoshop which I can then import into Premier Pro. Can anyone advise as to how I do that?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jacques

Hi Trevor
Thanks for your reply. I did what you suggested and created 2 masked adjustment layers which are basically concentric rings with differing levels of magenta reduction and I then feathered the edges. I have attached 2 images below to show the before and after effect. I’m working on getting this more accurate and I’m also going to look into the technique posted by Normfb. Big thanks to you Trevor for suggesting this – this is all quite new to me and it was very useful to play around with these adjustments layers, masks etc.
Jacques

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.
Hunt

How to paint-in visibility of a layer

I recently upgraded to cs5 after effects after years of using earlier versions.
It is a normal part of my working procedure to use a white solid layer as a track matte in order to reveal or hide the layer beneath
it by painting in the invisible solid layer with Vector paint in the composition window.
This means I can paint directly over the underlying image and brush-in the visibilty of the hidden layer.
How do I achieve this now that vector paint has gone and the ability to paint in the composition window is also gone?
It is no use to me to have to paint in a layer window when I cannot see the underlying layer beneath my paint strokes.
How do I achieve this basic requirement?
Thanks for any responses
Geoff

Hi Rick,
Many thanks for trying to help me here.
I don't need to see the layer i am painting on, i need to see the underlying layer.
If for instance i have an adjustment layer with say curves applied to it. I want to be able to brush in and out that effect to the underlying layers and see the result as i paint.
This is a pretty basic requirement that has been easy in all versions of ae up to the current version, by simply painting in a white solid track matte layer in the comp window so you can see all layers beneath being affected in realtime as you paint.
How do i do this now that painting on a layer in the comp window is no longer possible?

Photoshop Elements 9 - unable to use brush in adjustment layer

HI
I'm new to Adobe Photoshop Elements and have recently purchased Elements 9. I am having problems using the brush in adjustment levels.
I've opened a RAW image and converted it to black and white by desaturating it using an adjustment layer. I'm then trying to adjust the black and white image using several adjustment levels. I'm using the brush to black out the parts of the image in the particular adjustment layer I don't want changing. This worked initially, but for some reason, the brush stopped working in the adjustment layers. It's a soft brush set to 300px, the mode is "Normal" and opacity is 100%. Put simply, it's not obliterating anything in the layer, nor does anything appear in the thumbnail over on the right (both these things happened before)
The brush works normally when adjusting an image with no levels i.e. when you simply open a RAW or TIFF file and use the brush.
I've tried uninstalling the programme and reinstalling, but the porblem persists.
Can anyone offer any help? It's frustrating as I can't selectively adjust my image. Am I doing something wrong, is it a glitch, or is it just a simple case of ticking a simple box some where in the pre-sets?
Hoping someone can help.

Check that you have your brush set to black (foreground color black)
and that your actually painting on the layer mask (click on the layer mask
to make it active).
Try just painting on the mask of your adjustment layer used to desaturate the photo
with a black brush (the color should come back)
Sometimes with multiple adjustment layers, the strokes on one layer mask may overlap
the strokes on another.
If you want more control over a black and white conversion, you might try something like
the following.
1. Add a hue\saturation adjustment layer and change the layers blending mode to Color
2. Add another hue\saturation adjustment layer and move the saturation slider to -100
3. On the first adjustment layer (the one with the color blend mode), move the hue
and saturation sliders for different black and white effects.
4. If you want to add a color tint, set the top hue\saturation layer to colorize and
adjust the hue and saturation sliders for different tint effects.
MTSTUNER

Photoshop CC2014.2, Mac OS X: Bug with eyedropper and adjustment layer?

Hi,
I am constantly running into a weird behavior that I have a hard time not to classify as a bug.
Can someone please verify this and instruct me where to place a proper bug report?
How to repeat:
- Create a new document (RGB, white background)
- Use the brush and paint a desaturated colored area
- add a levels adjustment layer to make it lighter or add contrast
- go back to the paint layer
- set the eyedropper to only sample the active layer
- Use the eyedropper to sample the color
- Paint a new area
= The sampled color gets modified by the adjustment layer
- Turn off the adjustment layer
- redo sample and paint
= The adjustment layer will still affect the eyedropper tool
- Delete the adjustment layer
- redo sample and paint
= The adjustment layer will still affect the eyedropper tool even if it's removed!
- Restart photoshop and load the document
- redo sample and paint
= Now it works normally again.
There is one other way to get it back to normal and that is to reset the adjustment layer before deleting or turning it off.
Mac OS X Mavericks
Photoshop CC 2014.2

Bump. Am I really the only one that encounter this issue? Feeling lonely...

Rotate canvis unintuitive, hot key limitations, new adjustment layer features? Brush size slider bad

I've been using photoshop for a while, as well as a number of 3D applications. Speed and efficiency have always been very important, and I usually customize my software a lot to make it work for me. These are some of the things photoshop could do better in comparison to the user interfaces in some 3D programs.
Rotate canvas unintuitive:
While having a center pivot seems more intuitive at first, it actually causes me nothing but trouble having to always figure out where the center is, and then deciding how close i am (which will change speed of rotation). I would like at least an option to simply drag left and drag right for clockwise and counterclockwise at a specific speed.
Hot Key Limitations:
alt R and control R and shift R cannot be assigned to different things. I would prefer it if i could customize all of these.
new adjustment layer features:
often when painting in photoshop, i create an adjustment layer over all the layers. If i like how it looks, and want to continue painting, i have to either turn it off while i work and switch it on at the end again, flatten the entire painting loosing the layer separations, or duplicate the adjustment layer and setting it next to each pre-existing layer and then merging each set of 2 layers(the original + the duplicated adjustment layer).
It would be really wonderful if the process of duplicating the adjustment layers and flattening each set of 2 could be automated. a sort of Flatten to all individually button.
Brush Size Slider:
Zbrush has a very wonderful brush size change. I never appreciated it until trying photoshops. (previously to this i used another piece of hardware with a scroll wheel to change brush size. and still do. why the heck is the first brush size jump 10 units!?! simply a linear brush size change would have been awesome. although including a brush size slider is already pretty awesome
These things have been bothering me for a long time, and i always assume these problems that are obvious to me are probably obvious to everybody else and therefore will be fixed without my small intervention, but i figure this cant hurt. Thanks for all the hard work and the wonderful product!

This is a poorly explained reason about why is so important having a loupe in Photoshop. I've not also, used the best example, but I will. This belongs to the ADDITIONAL FEATURES: Loupe/Magnificator View:. Also, I will try to make my english clrearer, but here it goes:

Determining when an adjustment layer holds information.

Is it possible using javascript to determine when an adjustment layer holds information? I'll go into some detail as to what I mean.
I run a combination script/actions to set up a bunch of layers based on what I'm doing. Not all layers will get used in any given image. For example, when I'm retouching a model's photo, I run one that sets up a bunch of adjustment layers to enhance the color in the models eyes, or to change the color depending on what I'm doing. This sets up seven layers, each for a different color, then a few for highlights and/or catchlights. I may use between 0 and 3 of these layers. Each adjustment layer has an inverse mask (black) which I paint white in the areas I want to enhance.
Now, is there an easy way to determine which of these masks are pure black and which have been painted onto? Also, is there an easy way to determine on an adjustment layer such as curves, levels, hue/saturation, etc. whether any adjustments have been made or if they are still in default? I'm guessing the best way would be to first check the mask to see if it's not all black and if it isn't, then check for adjustments.

I was not really happy with the way I was testing for default settings. I was afraid that the simple replace text I was using might fail in some cases. It turns out that I was right. So here is a new set of functions. These I feel good about using.
All of the functions need this CRC code.
JavaScript source code        March 10, 2006
Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Scandinavian Digital Systems AB
Internet: http://www.digsys.se
Freeware: The source code and its methods and algorithms may be
            used as desired without restrictions.
CRC-32 (as it is in ZMODEM) in table form
Copyright (C) 1986 Gary S. Brown. You may use this program, or
code or tables extracted from it, as desired without restriction.
Modified by Anders Danielsson, February 5, 1989 and March 10, 2006.
This is also known as FCS-32 (as it is in PPP), described in
RFC-1662 by William Allen Simpson, see RFC-1662 for references.
var Crc32Tab = new Array( /* CRC polynomial 0xEDB88320 */
C/C++ language:
unsigned long Crc32Tab[] = {...};
0x00000000,0x77073096,0xEE0E612C,0x990951BA,0x076DC419,0x706AF48F,0xE963A535,0x9E6495A3,
0x0EDB8832,0x79DCB8A4,0xE0D5E91E,0x97D2D988,0x09B64C2B,0x7EB17CBD,0xE7B82D07,0x90BF1D91,
0x1DB71064,0x6AB020F2,0xF3B97148,0x84BE41DE,0x1ADAD47D,0x6DDDE4EB,0xF4D4B551,0x83D385C7,
0x136C9856,0x646BA8C0,0xFD62F97A,0x8A65C9EC,0x14015C4F,0x63066CD9,0xFA0F3D63,0x8D080DF5,
0x3B6E20C8,0x4C69105E,0xD56041E4,0xA2677172,0x3C03E4D1,0x4B04D447,0xD20D85FD,0xA50AB56B,
0x35B5A8FA,0x42B2986C,0xDBBBC9D6,0xACBCF940,0x32D86CE3,0x45DF5C75,0xDCD60DCF,0xABD13D59,
0x26D930AC,0x51DE003A,0xC8D75180,0xBFD06116,0x21B4F4B5,0x56B3C423,0xCFBA9599,0xB8BDA50F,
0x2802B89E,0x5F058808,0xC60CD9B2,0xB10BE924,0x2F6F7C87,0x58684C11,0xC1611DAB,0xB6662D3D,
0x76DC4190,0x01DB7106,0x98D220BC,0xEFD5102A,0x71B18589,0x06B6B51F,0x9FBFE4A5,0xE8B8D433,
0x7807C9A2,0x0F00F934,0x9609A88E,0xE10E9818,0x7F6A0DBB,0x086D3D2D,0x91646C97,0xE6635C01,
0x6B6B51F4,0x1C6C6162,0x856530D8,0xF262004E,0x6C0695ED,0x1B01A57B,0x8208F4C1,0xF50FC457,
0x65B0D9C6,0x12B7E950,0x8BBEB8EA,0xFCB9887C,0x62DD1DDF,0x15DA2D49,0x8CD37CF3,0xFBD44C65,
0x4DB26158,0x3AB551CE,0xA3BC0074,0xD4BB30E2,0x4ADFA541,0x3DD895D7,0xA4D1C46D,0xD3D6F4FB,
0x4369E96A,0x346ED9FC,0xAD678846,0xDA60B8D0,0x44042D73,0x33031DE5,0xAA0A4C5F,0xDD0D7CC9,
0x5005713C,0x270241AA,0xBE0B1010,0xC90C2086,0x5768B525,0x206F85B3,0xB966D409,0xCE61E49F,
0x5EDEF90E,0x29D9C998,0xB0D09822,0xC7D7A8B4,0x59B33D17,0x2EB40D81,0xB7BD5C3B,0xC0BA6CAD,
0xEDB88320,0x9ABFB3B6,0x03B6E20C,0x74B1D29A,0xEAD54739,0x9DD277AF,0x04DB2615,0x73DC1683,
0xE3630B12,0x94643B84,0x0D6D6A3E,0x7A6A5AA8,0xE40ECF0B,0x9309FF9D,0x0A00AE27,0x7D079EB1,
0xF00F9344,0x8708A3D2,0x1E01F268,0x6906C2FE,0xF762575D,0x806567CB,0x196C3671,0x6E6B06E7,
0xFED41B76,0x89D32BE0,0x10DA7A5A,0x67DD4ACC,0xF9B9DF6F,0x8EBEEFF9,0x17B7BE43,0x60B08ED5,
0xD6D6A3E8,0xA1D1937E,0x38D8C2C4,0x4FDFF252,0xD1BB67F1,0xA6BC5767,0x3FB506DD,0x48B2364B,
0xD80D2BDA,0xAF0A1B4C,0x36034AF6,0x41047A60,0xDF60EFC3,0xA867DF55,0x316E8EEF,0x4669BE79,
0xCB61B38C,0xBC66831A,0x256FD2A0,0x5268E236,0xCC0C7795,0xBB0B4703,0x220216B9,0x5505262F,
0xC5BA3BBE,0xB2BD0B28,0x2BB45A92,0x5CB36A04,0xC2D7FFA7,0xB5D0CF31,0x2CD99E8B,0x5BDEAE1D,
0x9B64C2B0,0xEC63F226,0x756AA39C,0x026D930A,0x9C0906A9,0xEB0E363F,0x72076785,0x05005713,
0x95BF4A82,0xE2B87A14,0x7BB12BAE,0x0CB61B38,0x92D28E9B,0xE5D5BE0D,0x7CDCEFB7,0x0BDBDF21,
0x86D3D2D4,0xF1D4E242,0x68DDB3F8,0x1FDA836E,0x81BE16CD,0xF6B9265B,0x6FB077E1,0x18B74777,
0x88085AE6,0xFF0F6A70,0x66063BCA,0x11010B5C,0x8F659EFF,0xF862AE69,0x616BFFD3,0x166CCF45,
0xA00AE278,0xD70DD2EE,0x4E048354,0x3903B3C2,0xA7672661,0xD06016F7,0x4969474D,0x3E6E77DB,
0xAED16A4A,0xD9D65ADC,0x40DF0B66,0x37D83BF0,0xA9BCAE53,0xDEBB9EC5,0x47B2CF7F,0x30B5FFE9,
0xBDBDF21C,0xCABAC28A,0x53B39330,0x24B4A3A6,0xBAD03605,0xCDD70693,0x54DE5729,0x23D967BF,
0xB3667A2E,0xC4614AB8,0x5D681B02,0x2A6F2B94,0xB40BBE37,0xC30C8EA1,0x5A05DF1B,0x2D02EF8D);
function Crc32Add(crc,c)
'crc' should be initialized to 0xFFFFFFFF and after the computation it should be
complemented (inverted).
CRC-32 is also known as FCS-32.
If the FCS-32 is calculated over the data and over the complemented FCS-32, the
result will always be 0xDEBB20E3 (without the complementation).
return Crc32Tab[(crc^c)&0xFF]^((crc>>8)&0xFFFFFF);
C/C++ language:
inline unsigned long Crc32Add(unsigned long crc, unsigned char c)
    return Crc32Tab[(unsigned char)crc^c]^(crc>>8);
Application functions that calculates CRC of a string
function Crc32Str(str)
var n;
var len=str.length;
var crc;
crc=0xFFFFFFFF;
for (n=0; n<len; n++)
    crc=Crc32Add(crc,str.charCodeAt(n));
return crc^0xFFFFFFFF;
Hex convert functions
function Hex32(val)
Convert value as 32-bit unsigned integer to 8 digit hexadecimal number prefixed with "0x".
var n;
var str1;
var str2;
n=val&0xFFFF;
str1=n.toString(16).toUpperCase();
while (str1.length<4)
    str1="0"+str1;
n=(val>>>16)&0xFFFF;
str2=n.toString(16).toUpperCase();
while (str2.length<4)
    str2="0"+str2;
return "0x"+str2+str1;
isDefaultHueSatAdjustment();
function isDefaultHueSatAdjustment(){
     if(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.kind != LayerKind.HUESATURATION ) return;
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getList(stringIDToTypeID('adjustment')).getObjectValue(0);
     var rawData = desc.getData(stringIDToTypeID('legacyContentData'));
     var str = Hex32(Crc32Str(rawData));
     if( str == '0xB83ED6B1' ) return true;
     return false;
isDefaultColorBalanceAdjustment();
function isDefaultColorBalanceAdjustment(){
     if(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.kind != LayerKind.COLORBALANCE ) return;
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getList(stringIDToTypeID('adjustment')).getObjectValue(0);
     var rawData = desc.getData(stringIDToTypeID('legacyContentData'));
     var str = Hex32(Crc32Str(rawData));
     if( str == '0x16CEAACC' ) return true;
     return false;
isDefaultCurvesAdjustment();
function isDefaultCurvesAdjustment(){
     if(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.kind != LayerKind.CURVES ) return;
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getList(stringIDToTypeID('adjustment')).getObjectValue(0);
     var rawData = desc.getData(stringIDToTypeID('legacyContentData'));
     var str = Hex32(Crc32Str(rawData));
     if( str == '0xF5315AF8' ) return true;
     return false;
isDefaultLevelsAdjustment();
function isDefaultLevelsAdjustment(){
     if(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.kind != LayerKind.LEVELS ) return;
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getList(stringIDToTypeID('adjustment')).getObjectValue(0);
     var rawData = desc.getData(stringIDToTypeID('legacyContentData'));
     var str = Hex32(Crc32Str(rawData));
     if( str == '0x02A5FFD5' ) return true;
     return false;
isDefaultBWAdjustment();
function isDefaultBWAdjustment(){
     if(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.kind != LayerKind.BLACKANDWHITE ) return;
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getList(stringIDToTypeID('adjustment')).getObjectValue(0);
     var rawData = desc.getData(stringIDToTypeID('legacyContentData'));
     var str = Hex32(Crc32Str(rawData));
     if( str == '0x8BE5167D' ) return true;
     return false;

Adjustment layer applied to part of image applies it to whole image?

I make a selection around some white teeth and I want to add some yellow to them. I make a new hue/saturation adjustment layer and want to just change this new layer, though for some reason, it is applying the change to the whole image. It is also doing this when I try to do a Levels adjustment layer to the selection I made into a new layer.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

Probably the selection simply contained a ton of semi-transparent pixels. Nothing stops you from adjusting the layer mask post-facto, though - it is just that, after all and can be painted on or mangled with modal adjustments by itself like any otehr layer mask. Try that....
Mylenium

Adding to the selection of a current hue/saturation adjustment layer?

I made a selection on a car, used a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change that selected color, though I went and used the Magic Wand to add more to my selection and that new part of the selection is not affected by the previous Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. How is this done? Do I have to make a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer for the added selection Using Cs5.
Thanks.

There's selection of the color range the Hue/Saturation layer will work on. That's controlled by the little sliders that appear when you choose, for example, "Reds". You can do things like widen or narrow the range of colors included, as well as widen or narrow the ramps defining how much that colors near the edges of the ranges will be affected.
There's also the possibility that you defined a layer mask when making the Hue/Saturation layer, which will define which pixels in the image will be affected. If so, you need to click on the layer mask in the Layers panel and paint on it (white to choose which parts the Hue/Saturation layer will work on, black to choose which parts not to work on). You can, of course, paint grayscale on the layer mask to have certain pixels partially affected.
Hope this helps.
-Noel

Brushes greyed out with Hue Saturation adjustment layer

Hi,
I was editing a photo using a hue saturation adjustment layer in CS6 and wanted to paint on the mask to hide some small areas. However, the brushes palette is greyed out. Any ideas what's causing this?
Kindest regards

What version photoshop cs6 are you using?
Have you applied all the latest updates from within photoshop under Help>Updates?
Resetting the photoshop preferences might fix it as well:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0

Sharpen Adjustment Layer

Hello
I've been searching for a way to apply a smart sharpen filter as an adjustment layer. So far it looks like it's not possible, but there's been a bit of info regarding smart object layers which may be able to do the trick. Anyone know if this can be done (non-destructively sharpening an image, the same way any other adjutsment layer works)

I recorded a smart sharpen adjustment layer action for CS3 been using it for years. You can download it look at it and make any changes you want. here a link http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/SharpenAdjustmentLayer.atn it has a couple of interactive steps the stop messages may be turned off. The sharpen adjustment layer is a smart object layer that is blended into the layer below in luminosity mode and its blend if adjusted to protect the highlights and shadows. There is also a filter mask which is an edge mask so the smart smart sharpen filter only sharpens edge areas. Also added a reveal all layer mask you can paint on to hide over sharpening, You can also adjust the effect by changing the layer opacity and fill. I tend to over sharpen a bit and adjust the effect. The action works on layered as well as flat documents looks like this:
Over sharpening with smart sharpen filter using a way to big radius and a the different blur mode not just lens blur can bring out brush strokes somewhat like Noel did and you can see a color preview. I added a white layer so I can show what the luminosity layer looks like in an animated gif
Here the animated gif you may need to click on it to see the animation.

In Photoshop CC (2014), Hue/Saturation adjustment layer properties disappear

I am running Photoshop CC (2014) under Windows 7 Professional. The program is up to date.
Today, while editing an 8-bit image, I added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Then, in the properties panel for this layer, with the on-image adjustment tool selected, I clicked a color in the image to get a range of colors whose saturation I wanted to adjust. Next, using the saturation slider in the properties panel, I increased the saturation of this range of colors. Finally, I closed the properties panel by clicking on the double arrow in the upper right corner.
Later, I wanted to modify this adjustment layer. I double-clicked on the layer thumbnail to reopen the properties panel, and found that, although the previous increase in saturation was still operating, the saturation slider was back at its default position, and the range of colors that I had previously established was gone. Thus, I could not make further adjustments to this range of colors.
I then did some further experimentation: I deleted the first Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, and created a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. I then again established a range of colors as above, again increased the saturation of these colors, and then again closed the properties panel by clicking on the double arrow in the upper right corner. This time, however, when I wanted to try to modify this adjustment layer, instead of double-clicking on the layer thumbnail to reopen the properties panel, I right-clicked on the layer and then clicked on "Edit adjustment..." This opened the properties panel, which, this time, correctly showed my original adjustments -- the saturation slider showed the positive adjustment that I had previously made, and the range of colors established earlier was still shown. But then, on a hunch, I added a Curves adjustment layer above the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Now, when I again opened the properties panel of the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer (by right-clicking on the layer and then clicking on "Edit adjustment..."), my previous settings were gone -- the saturation slider was at its default position and the range of colors was gone! (But the increase in saturation was still operating.)
Thus, it appears that there is a bug in the functioning of the properties panel of the Hue/Saturation layer: In short, once you have added a further adjustment layer, you can't then go back and make changes to the properties of the Hue/Saturation layer. I would be interested to hear if others have noticed this. Also, is Adobe planning to address this?

OK, I am not entirely sure I have understood your post completely, but when you edit a colour range with a Hue/Sat layer, and click off and back on again, it will default to showing the RGB values, which you may not have made any adjustment to. If you pick the previous colour from the image, or a similar colour, it _will_ show you the adjustments. So long as your picked colour is contained within the range of the previous adjustment.
Ypu could also use the RGB drop down (actually they call it Master nowadays), and chose the colour that is closest to your previously picked colour. I expect you are away that you can edit the colour range being operated on by dragging the four sliders on the two colour bars at the bottom of the Properties panel.
Does that make sense, or am I going in the wrong direction?

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Nearly every time I have tried to use an adjustment layer in Premiere Pro CS6, the application has hung if I tried to scrub through the video. Yesterday I decided to try placing an adjustmnet layer and only using the play function rather than scrubbing and it seemed to work alright. However, this morning premiere will no longer open the project file. Instead it give me the error message "The project could not be loaded, it may be damaged or contain outdated elements." This is an extremely heinous bug! Can anyone help or is this feature really just unusable?!!
Additionally, because I was so fastidious about saving, given the previous crashes, the only functioning autosave is 6 hours out of date!
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I use ALs a lot, and haven't yet seen this behavior.
Have you added any effects to the AL? Does scrubbing work OK without the AL?

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