From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Color
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Curves - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Color
Curves
- [Instructor] The Curves dialog box is a powerful tool for adjusting the contrast and the color in an image. As with levels, curves can be applied non-destructively as an adjustment layer. So I'm going to come to my list of adjustment layers, or I can just click on my Curve icon on the Adjustments panel, and here is my curve. Now I have currently a 10 by 10 grid. If you don't see a 10 by 10 grid, Option or Alt + click and you can toggle between a four by four or 10 by 10 grid. You can see that the curve, currently a linear curve, is superimposed upon a compressed histogram like we saw in the Levels dialog. So you add a point to the curve by clicking on the curve, dragging up to add light, dragging down to remove light, this being an RGB image. If you want to remove a point, drag it off the grid. You can edit a curve with up to 16 points, though typically you only need one or two. There are a number of useful presets. If I choose Strong Contrast, we have what's referred to as an…
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