Lesson Info

Tone Curves

Now we're going to go back into the light area and let's talk about curves. Curves are really important items, but they're kind of their own version, so they're not like the light area. Exposure content highlight shadows, whites, blacks. I kind of treat that is one tool, and then the curve tool is completely different tool. They just happen to put it in with the light tool because it has to do with exposure, I guess. But I see it is a different tools. So click on the curves and it's going to show you a curve here. And that curve allows you to work on the entire curve, which is the R, G and B. So just the basically the tones of the image. And so if I grab something in the center of that tone curve and bring it up, see, it's bringing up the mid tones. And then if I take this part down, I'm bringing down the shadows, and then I can take the highlights up a little bit or down a little bit. So I've just worked on the actual brightness of the image, and this is kind of the subtle man's con c...

ontrast so if you go to the contrast knob, you're kind of doing the same thing. But it's kind of brute force, whereas the tone curve you could be very, very subtle about the kind of contrast you're creating. So I like that contrast. But there's I could go further with it because I can actually go into the Red Channel, the Green Channel and the Blue Channel to decide what to do with the contrast in those areas. So I can say that I want Mawr Blue in my highlights and I want less blue in my shadows. And then I could go into my reds and I can say I want ah, little bit mawr, um green in my highlights on a little bit more red in my shadows. And so I'm starting to get a really interesting kind of warm, almost reddish. Most looks like it's faded. The maybe the film had sat around in the sun for a while or something like that. So I'm getting a kind of an odd effect, which is kind of cool. So if I like that as an effect, then I want to save it so I can save that as a preset. We'll talk a little bit more about presets later, but I would save this curve as a preset so that I could then use it again. You could always come in and remake this curve every single time, but that would be a waste of your time. It's better if you were to take that and make a preset out of it. And then from then on out, you can, um, I just use it by clicking on a preset button, but we'll get to presets in just a little while. So that is the Curves area curves a really important.

Class Description

Lessons

1. Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic
2. Hard Drives
3. File Organization
4. 30,000 Foot View of Workflow
5. Importing into Lightroom
6. Building Previews
7. Collections and Publish Services
8. Keywords
9. Hardware for Lightroom
10. Searching for Images
11. Selecting Images
12. Organizing Images
13. Collecting Images for Use
14. Develop Module Overview
15. Profiles
16. Basic Adjustments
17. Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
18. Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance
19. Tone Curve
20. HSL
21. Split Tone
22. Lens Corrections
23. Details
24. Transform Tool
25. Effects Panel
26. Synchronizing for Faster Editing
27. Spot Tool
28. Skin Softening and Brush Work
29. Range Masking
30. Dodge and Burn
31. Working with Specific Colors
32. Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters
33. Making Presets
34. Preparing Image in Lightroom
35. Content Aware Fill
36. Skin Repair
37. Skin Smoothing
38. Expanding a Canvas
39. Liquify
40. Layers and Composite Images
41. Sharing via Web
42. Exporting Files
43. Sharing with Slideshows
44. Archiving Photos and Catalogs
45. Designing
46. Making Prints
47. Color Management and Profiles
48. Archiving Photos and Catalogs
49. Using Cloud Storage
50. Adding Images to your Portfolio
51. Collecting for Your Portfolio
52. Publishing Unique Websites Per Project
53. Sharing to Instagram
54. HDR
55. Panorama
56. HDR Panorama
57. Making Presets
58. Creating Profiles
59. Maps
60. Setup for Tethered Shooting
61. Sharing with the Client
62. Watched Folder Process
63. Second Monitor and iPad
64. Backup at the Camera
65. Gnar Box Disk Backup
66. iPhone and iPad Review
67. Importing to Lightroom on iPad
68. Cloud Backup
69. Adjust, Edit, and Organize
70. Using Lightroom Between Devices
71. Lightroom Desktop
72. Removing Images from the Cloud
73. Profiles
74. Light
75. Color
76. Effects
77. Details
78. Optics
79. Geometry
80. Crop
81. Adding and Using Presets and Profiles
82. Local Adjustments
83. Healing Tool
84. Synchronizing Edits
85. Editing in Photoshop
86. Finding Images
87. Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web
88. Posting Images to Social Media
89. Overview of Lightroom Desktop
90. The Workflow Overview
91. Organizing Images
92. Albums and Shared Albums
93. Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview
94. Importing and Selecting Images
95. HDR and Panoramics
96. Light
97. Profiles
98. Tone Curves
99. Color
100. Effects
101. Details
102. Optics
103. Geometry and Crop Tool
104. Sync Settings
105. Making and Adding Presets
106. Healing Brush
107. Brush Tool
108. Gradient Tool
109. Edit in Photoshop
110. Finding Images with Sensei
111. Sharing Albums on the Web
112. Print through Photoshop
113. Exporting Images to Files or Web Services
114. Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices
115. Archiving Images for Storage
116. Review of the Workflow