Tone curves (and why you don't need them)

In this movie, I'll introduce you to the next…panel over here inside Camera raw, and that's tone curve.…And it allows you to apply an after market curve to your image.…So, in other words, after you get done…truly developing your image here inside the basic panel,…then you can go over to turn curve…and add the equivalent of a curve suggestion layer.…But I'm showing you this with a big caveat.…The thing is, thanks to the way the exposure controls…now work inside camera raw, you really…don't need the Tone Curve function anymore.…And I'll show you exactly what I mean.…

So, we'll start things off where I left off with this image, in camera raw 6.…And as a result, we're seeing the old…exposure controls, along with this exclamation point down here.…In the bottom right corner of the image preview.…And even though I had thrown a graduated filter on…top of things here, in order to increase the contrast…of this upper background, I still felt like I…had some brightening to do with this image is concerned.…So I'll press the z key to escape out so I can…