Photo: Reselecting different layer selections

[Phatman]

I'm struggling with AP with adjusting individual layers. I have a photo of a car where I want to try showing different coloured wheels so I trace the wheels and paste into new layers. When I try to adjust the exposure of the wheel layers it changes the exposure for the whole picture - not helpful. So I go to reselect to isolate a wheel and apply adjustment and it works, just the wheel is changed. But when I select next wheel layer and go to Reselect it reselects the wheel I've just altered! So how do I tell it to reselect the last selection of the layer I'm currently working in? I know in Photoshop it remembers the selection from the layer you are working in.

[Alfred]

12 minutes ago, Phatman said:

When I try to adjust the exposure of the wheel layers it changes the exposure for the whole picture - not helpful.

If you have an adjustment layer at the top of the layer stack it will affect all the other layers. You need to nest or group the adjustment layer with the layers you want to adjust.

[Phatman]

Thanks for the tip. Usually the adjustments appears as a sub layer but they were appearing above in a layer. To reselect the second wheel object I did a workaround by selecting the background then inverting the selection.