#TONAL BALANCE CONTROL CUSTOM CURVES UPDATE#
The tone curve had a bit of a facelift in the Adobe June 2020 update and the interface is now much more user friendly. The trick is not to go mad and make your curve look like the screen of a hillclimb workout on the exercise bike. You can adjust the curve, but the adjustments you make will be more controlled. If you’re new to using the tone curve in Lightroom, but want some control editing your Lightroom tone curve adjustments, start by using the regional sliders in the linear tone curve panel. A drop down menu will open and then select the tone curve preset you want to use. Just click the up/down arrows next to “Point curve”. If you don’t want to set it yourself, you can select one of two presets: In total there are three ways to use the RGB tone curve to adjust tones in an image… 1.
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This will really speed up your workflow, but before you do it, make sure that all the photos were taken in similar conditions.įurther reading: 9 essential tricks for batch editing in Lightroom – speed up your workflow How do I create a custom tone curve in Lightroom?īefore you get into creating a custom Lightroom tone curve, you might want to experiment with the other (easier) ways first. It’s really easy to apply your tone curve settings to multiple photos at once using Lightroom batch editing. If you’re thinking this will make editing a shoot take ages, the good news is that you don’t need to create a new tone curve for every photo you edit. Apply tone curve adjustments to multiple photos at once This is why it’s a really good idea, when processing photos, to review the before and after images regularly to make sure you haven’t taken your editing it too far. Even taking the lights and darks to extreme you’ll maintain detail in the midtones. So, with curves you can get a much punchier image with greater detail over the entire dynamic range than you would using the sliders in the Basics panel.Īfter looking at the previous two extremes, this balanced photo appears quite faded. That said, when using curves you have more control over contrast, because you can anchor the midtones so that they’re not affected, then adjust highlights, lights, darks and shadows. So, if you adjust highlights, there’s minimal impact on the shadows and vice versa. With the shadows and highlights sliders, the adjustment is more targeted to that part of the image. They both work, but have different results. Well, that’s because the tone curve works differently from these sliders.
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Not counting the color curve channels, you might well wonder why use the RGB tone curve in Lightroom to adjust light and dark areas of a photo when you can do the same thing with the whites, blacks highlights and shadows sliders in the Basic panel. Why use the tone curve tool vs sliders in the Basic panel? Both the tone and color curves are in the same panel. The tone curve tool is a panel on the right of the Develop Module. Colors are adjusted using the separate red, blue and green curves.īoth the RGB tone curve and the color tone curves are divided into 4 areas, starting from the left:Ī diagonal line between the bottom left corner and the top right corner is the line that you adjust to alter the tone curve. Tones, from shadows, to darks, midtones, lights and highlights are adjusted using the RGB curve. The tone curve is a tool in Lightroom used for adjusting tones to make images brighter or darker, and to adjust colors. Used well, the Lightroom tone curve is like a magic wand that abracadabras your photos to the next level.
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That’s absolutely fine when you’re new to Lightroom, but once you become more proficient in Lightroom editing, you’ll want to use the tone curve tool. It looks like they do the same thing and they’re much easier to operate than the tone curve at first glance. If you don’t understand the tone curve, you probably just use the whites, blacks, highlights and shadows sliders in the basics panel. Because of this I think it’s also a little intimidating at first. You can do so much with the tone curve and it forms the basis of most presets. The Lightroom tone curve is one of the most powerful features of Lightroom.