ABSTRACT
The greatest benefit to using Layers is that the people get tremendous flexibility in controlling image changes and the ability to revisit, adjust, and view changes at any time later in the correction process. Naming layers as the people go to hint at what they are all about will help keep them organized and let them act as an outline or running history for the people editing procedures. Layers can be merged from various groupings: linked layers, grouped layers, visible layers, active (highlighted) groupings, and simple pairs can all be merged. Although there are many potential solutions, clipping layers offer the opportunity to target an adjustment only to that layer while keeping the changes in their own layers. The implications are farther reaching than simply being an alternative to masking.
