 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 tutorial. In this one I'm going to show you how to apply an adjustment layer to only one layer or a single layer and not the whole stack. In this finished version you'll see that I've made the lady on the left here black and white but the background and the lady in the foreground is not and I'm going to show you how to do that so let's just go ahead and delete the top layer here and we're going to go and start from scratch so the first step here let's even delete the mask why not right okay let's go ahead and do it all the first step actually I'll show you is we want to mask out this lady the two ladies first so let's just do that the first one here you want to go to make sure you're on the top image go to select and go to select subject and this works quite well yeah I'll turn the top layer off so you'll see that we're working on this lady's outline here perfect click the mask button you'll get rid of the background and it did a pretty good job we'll turn the top layer on we're going to go to select subject again and again this isn't really part of the tutorial but I might as well show you while I got you you've selected the subject click the mask button perfect okay now this next trick is we want to make this lady here the one on the left black and white so we're going to but we don't want the rest of the image to be black and white so normally what you'll do is you'll go to adjustments die they're down here and select black and white and when you do that it applies to the whole thing and this is where it goes wrong and this is what I'm going to show you and or you can go actually up to your libraries and go to the adjustments and make it you can add it in there as well but we did it this way now the trick and the whole trick to this is to create a clipping mask hold down the alt key if you're on a pc option key if you're on a mac and when you do that you're going to see the arrow down and the little rectangle square there when you when you see that and you're hovering between the two lines here left click that's it it creates a clipping mask to the layer beneath it and that way you can make that object and or pardon you can make that layer and only that layer uh uh affected by the adjustment layer now I can or I can show you one more thing let's say we've got this lady here we want to do something to her instead I'm going to go ahead and increase the brightness and contrast of her normally I would left click on this and it creates a brightness and let's really jack it up way the heck up and presto it's cool but it applies to this layer and the layer beneath it again holding down the alt or the option key just hit that wait till you get the arrow down and the little rectangle or the square left click on it she's now has the adjustment applied only to her the lady at the top here and the left side has only the black and white adjustment applied to her and the background layer stay the same that's the whole thing in a nutshell guys thanks for watching a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned