atalaya

Thanks so much. You explained a very elemental concept that I had somehow missed. This worked great. I was able to add all of the windows into a single adjustment layer. Make my adjustments to that. Then, do an Invert Selection to select the rest of the image so I could create an adjustment layer to adjust that portion of the image separately. This is an addictive program. The learning curve is somewhat steeper than I had expected — largely, I think, because I have not yet found anything that walks you through the basics of where to find everything and what they all do. Often the instructional videos go so fast that you cannot see where the guy clicked. I keep finding myself saying things like: "where did he go to change the brush size on for Flood Select?" Thanks again for the prompt and very helpful replies.

Just starting to learn the program and I am feeling very stupid right out of the box. I know that this should be simple, but I have not been able to figure it out: I am working on photographs of architectural interiors. First thing I do is to adjust perspective. Easy. Then, I want to make separate exposure adjustments for the interior and for the views out the windows. No problem, I thought: simply create a mask layer that contains only the windows and adjust the exposure for this layer separately, then adjust the background to taste and layer the edited window layer on top of this. But, my window layer has an opaque background so the Background does not show through. I tried following the instructions for clipping, but I could not make this work either. I know I am missing something basic, but I have not yet figured it out. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks