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He smiled.

He almost gave up. He almost flattened the layer and painted over it like a vandal. Then he remembered Val’s Module 7: Color Range & Selective Color . He selected the yellow stain by color, not by hand. He added a Hue/Saturation layer, clipped to the selection, and drained the yellow until it became warm white. Underneath, the original flour-dusted counter of the bakery emerged, clean and miraculous. adobe photoshop cc – essentials training course

The first module was called The Non-Destructive Gospel . Val introduced him to Adjustment Layers. She showed him how a Curves layer could rescue a flat, gray sky without touching a single original pixel. For the first time, he made a change, then turned it off, then turned it back on. No panic. No Ctrl+Z frenzy. It felt like having a safety net made of light. He smiled

Elias saved the file. Then, just because he could, he added a Curves layer and made the sky behind the CEO a little more golden. Non-destructive. Just in case. Then he remembered Val’s Module 7: Color Range

Elias finished the course at 2:00 AM. He uploaded his “before and after” to the course forum. Val replied within ten minutes: “Look at those edges. You trusted the Pen Tool. And the color range fix on the stain? That’s not essentials. That’s intuition.”

But the stain. The stain was everywhere.