Curves has long been one of the most powerful tools in C Photoshop and Lightroom. Whether you want to boost contrast, tweak brightness, experiment with creative colour shifts, or make any number of other adjustments, Curves will often be your best option.
It isn’t the easiest of tools to master, but avoiding Curves altogether would be a mistake: with a little practice, it becomes the most intuitive and versatile of tonal adjustment tools.
These days you’ll find Curves in lots of different image-editing apps. As well as Photoshop, Camera Raw and Lightroom, Curves features in Premiere, InDesign and more, so it’s worth taking a few minutes to master the basics. What’s more, for Camera Raw and Lightroom users, Curves can now be used in tandem with masking tools, so you…