Ahead of the curve

James Paterson gets to grips with the ultimate tonal tool for making creative colour shifts

Curves has long been one of the best tonal tools in Photoshop and Lightroom. Whether you want to boost contrast, tweak brightness, experiment with creative colour shifts or make any number of other adjustments, Curves is the tool for the job. As one of the Photoshop old guard that has been around for decades, Curves is something many of us simply couldn’t do without. Admittedly, it isn’t the easiest of tools to master, and there are plenty of other simpler options available – but avoiding Curves would be a mistake. With a little practice, it quickly becomes the most intuitive and versatile of tonal tools. You’ll find a Curves command in lots of different image-editing apps. As well as Photoshop, Camera Raw and Lightroom, Curves features in Premiere, InDesign and more, so…

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