Things You Don't Know About Tone Curves In Lightroom | Master Your Craft
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- In this video, Pye will show you everything you need to know about the Tone Curve in Adobe Lightroom. You can download the exercise files below and edit along with Pye as he helps you navigate why the Tone Curve is one of the most useful panels for editing photos in Lightroom.
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!
Can we talk about how soothing his voice is?
Sometimes i don't even look at the video, just listen to his voice.
Thank you very much for this informative tutorial :)
Thank you for the information
That was a beautiful tutorial, just 1 question, when i work in my latest lightroom point curve and parametric curve are independent(not able to refine as you explain in the video- it looks like a untouched curve, do we have to link it or something) hope i am clear to you?
When I clicked on the parametric curve it reset the curve back to neutral…. I couldn’t refine my tone curve.
As a new photographer this has totally demystified the tone curve for me. Thank you so much. I can see myself using it so much more now.
Love your teaching style man. You do a great job explaining the subject matter.
Pye u r the best instructor ever. For years I’ve been following your tutorial and courses. Boy... u r charismatic and so knowledgeable, buddy! Thanks for all the years of sharing knowledge!
Great information but please, please, please turn the music off on the background... So distracting for us ADD kids!
Thank you for creating such an excellent valuable content. Big thanks and cheers 🥂 from India. We learn a lot from your channel
Glad to have you here!
I bet you didn't know, but if you hold alt you can make fine adjustments on the curve. Too bad it only works in lightroom and not in photoshop .
Shift key to constrain vertical, nice easy takeaway from this tutorial, thanks.
Did I like this video...? Oh yes I did 👍
Thank you
Pye my man, this is amazing! I learn something ew every time you and Adorama drop a video. You guys are awesome. Thank you.
Glad you are enjoying!
This was possibly the best Lightroom tutorial video I've watched. And I've watched A LOT of them. Thank you, Pye, for helping me to take my editing to the next level in just 16 minutes.
Great teacher - BUT background musac is repetitive and NOT good. Would be better without. Meant to be a constructive comment as I do love your presentations.
Sending note to team. Thanks for the feedback!
Pye, I've been an amateur photographer for many years now, progressing slowly but steadily in my understanding how things work. I followed your Dodge & Burn tutorial yesterday and your Tone Curve tutorial right now. It was like two revelations! I understood so much in so little time, it's mind-blowing. Thank you so much. And: Congratultations! I have rarely found someone who is NOT ONLY KNOWLEDGEABLE BUT CAN ALSO EXPLAIN THINGS as well as you do. I know what I'm talking about. I've been an instructor and facilitator myself for three decades. - Pye, please, keep going like you do. I will certainly want to follow you and hear more from you! - Norbert from Germany
I just watched the video and for the first time in 2 months, I'm finally about to play around with the curves but this time with a little knowledge. Thank you, Pye🤠✌️
I knew the tone curve at the most basic level but this video just elevated it’s possibilities for me. I’m so excited to use it to its full potential now. Thank you!
This was a near perfect tutorial for me. But the one thing I struggle most with it the rgb curve
This is something amazing. So much simplified. Thank you!!
Do you have the Lightroom tutorial series?
Terrible work! If you submit that work to any professional they would reject it. Very shallow understanding.
Wow, found this channel while searching for curves explained. Your voice and way of telling is so good! Thanks a lot!
Well presented though the background music was unnecessary
Thanks for the note, i'll pass to the team.
I'm sure the instructional side of this video is good, but I gave up listening because of the distracting background music. Music definitely enhances films and artistic presentations BUT makes it very difficult to concentrate on the message the video is meant to provide. Please DON"T include music with instructional video, especially videos that require a lot concentration to follow the ideas being presented.
I downloaded the practice image and tried to follow along. After you created your point curve you clicked the button to adjust Parametric Curve and the previously established curve remained on the graph. When I copied that move the curve went to a straight line. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
When I followed along, I made the adjustments to the point curve. But, as soon as I click on the Parametric curve icon, I'm presented with an unaltered straight line. When you made your adjustments to the Point Curve and then clicked on the Parametric Curve, your original point curve was preserved so that you could make subtle adjustments with the Parametric parameters. What am I doing wrong? Ron
Thanks for the video. It helped a lot. I don't think you need that background music though. It takes away from the content...doesn't need to be there.
Amazing and helpful video! Maybe a video next on colour grading feature in Lightroom!
Pye,
It seems like you're advocating using the tone curves FIRST and then sliders to make more subtle adjustments. I thought this video was awesome and make sense, but I am curious because most photographers I've seen suggest using the sliders to make corrections BEFORE you use the tone curve to do any color adjustments.
I'd really love if you could elaborate on this workflow?
You can change the contrast of an entire image with color curves also - just pull down/up all 3 curves on same place for black/white. Just a note :)
Is it possible that when we move from point curve to parametric curve, the graph will remain the same ?
I tried doing as shown in the video , but my curves gets altered when I move from point curve to parametric...
There is a big mistake here. The sliders ARE NOT THE SAME as the tone curve adjustments. Sliders are doing more than explained here. It is pretty complicated to achieve the same results with the tone curve as with the sliders.
pulling midtones -> exposure
s curve - contrast
reserverse s-curve -
matt - pull mid, black and whites up, down
smooth curves with point then parametric c.
The loud repetitive "music" totally made me lose my concentration. I wish you would just eliminate the background music.
ACR: this deep exploration of the adjustments shows the potential of this program if only users knew the ‘secret sauce’.
My problem is that o don’t know anything about color design. I don’t even know what colors mixed together make something else. I think my 5 year old does. For some reason it just never clicks. If you could do an explain like I’m 5 version tutorial on color, I would really appreciate it.
finally, i understood the CURVES :D
Thanks Pye, Now ill treat myself with a Pie
but sir, as per your histogram the image still looks severely underexposed right? please help me get this, when my graph looks too underexposed, i try to balance the histogram by adjusting basic panel exposure and highlights, shadows etc... again just coz it looks underexposed as per the histogram. So then i export and test it on various devices, and if ever my histogram is as dark as you showed in the video, then my images look too dark on these devices even after pumping device brightness.... so please correct my interpretation, hope i'm making sense... thank you :)
Tone curve masterclass in 15mins!! Loved it!!
this was a fantastic video. wow
Beyond global adjustments what is the difference between Tone Curve and Control Grading Panel?
Excellent video. But this music behind is really annoying. Do you really need it?
Do you recommend to jump straight in to tone curves before anything else?
This was such a great video. I have been playing with these curves, but I only end up messing up my photo which makes me go back to the sliders. Thank you for this video.
People ask me why is it when I grab the curve at the mid-tone and go up/lighten or down/darken the blackest and whitest tones don’t get effected. Why?
When I switched from the point curve to the parametric curve, I lost my "matte curve" and it become linear. Then when I returned to the point curve, it was back. How do I maintain the point curve's shape when switching to parametric?
The explanation is great but I wonder why these kind of instructors never show their software skills using a good picture instead of a mediocre one.
honest truth i prefer the raw file :(
Haha, to each their own. That's the beauty of photography. It's completely subjective.
🙌👍🏻👍🏻Great video Pye!! But...do you recommend to allways start by adjusting the tone curve rather than starting with the basic sliders? Couldnt we acheive the same result by only using the sliders instead of the tone curve? Honestly, I find the sliders more intuitive to use 🙃
I like Pye's strategy of having the tone curves do the heavy lifting (possibly for creating presets), and use the sliders to manually tweak settings for each individual photo. The advantage of the tone curve is its a visual representation and when you keep the curves subtle the changes look natural. Versus if you go crazy with the sliders you can create unnatural looking edits. There is more balance with the curve.
it would help if we could see where you are clicking -- a zoomed in screen shot
This video helped a LOT. I've been fumbling around the tone curve for years. This video finally makes sense of it for me.
This is me.
this solved my confusion on tone curve... thanks man...
Awesome!
I didn’t know 50% of all that was taught.
Thank you!
I have just realised how little I know about LR !!
how do you get the brush selection list for radial gradient? I have no options in my light room for preset brushes only sliders
I love this! It helps me understand it completely now! Thank you!
I could listen to him all day long. I am confident that during that day, I would be learning something the entire time. He is so knowledgeable, creative, and an excellent teacher.
Appreciate it Allen!
Wonderful demonstration! Thanks!
Pye, that is an excellent overview. I had to discover these things myself in the past, too. As to the "Tone Curve", you missed a point that, IMO, is very important.
The left-bottom start point of the Tone Curve and the top-right end of the Tone Curve mark the "Black Point" and "White Point" IN YOUR OPINION in your photo.
These points can be shifted horizontally. The shot you use in this lesson, has a little happening in about 40% of the X-axis in the Tone Curve diagram (the histogram under the line you manipulate). Imagine you shift the White Point horizontally-left to the 60% X-axis point (so it stays at the top), then you now have told LR that it can treat that X-axis point as 255 White. As a consequence, with 0% X-axis being the Black Point, you now distribute the 0..255 reach over the 60% X-axis domain. This changes your photo's representation in another way than messing with sliders of exposure/zones and contrast.
In camera - I have shot metering "expose for highlights" recently, and there may be a tiny bright highlight spot in the subject driving exposure, that IMO does not need any detail at all, and I have no or almost no histogram for the top 40% X-axis - this White Point approach totally pulls such shots up from dark and moody. (Wait, but aren't you afraid to lose shadow detail? Haha, only if I shot the same camera brand as Pye. But seriously, you could. you have to build an understanding - experience - of circumstances when metering for the highlights plays against you.)
Back in LR. You can still apply the Y-axis shifts to the Black Point and White Point as per your demonstration too, of course.
Note you can "reverse" the image processing in LR. Take a scan of a negative, shift the Black Point from 0,0 to 0,100% and the White Point from 100%,100% to 100%,0 and 'bam' you have your positive and the sliders all avail still (but they may need to be mirrored in your thinking).
Compared with Capture One, Lightroom does the Black & White Points in the Tone Curve. C1 allows this and the mid grey point to be applied in the Histogram - where it should be, IMO. (I don't own C1.)
You are totally right. Quite advanced, but I did miss this piece! Great catch.
@@BornUncreative - Let's call this reciprocity instead of a catch. If software developers had been great communicators they had not chosen a programming language with a display and keyboard as dominant interface in their careers. You and I suffer the consequences.
I didn't know Louis Rossmann had a brother.
Thank you. More Curve vs Grading
Best explanation of the tone curve ever .. thanks alot
As always, nicely explained, thanks.
good explaination, for once i have a clue in these stuff
Excellent video indeed. Thank you.
fantastic video, thanks so much!
But...It is very difficult to fine tune in tone curve!
Amazing, all that's left is to try.
I love your sequence , easy move from point to the next
I’m glad I found this video
Do I have to use tone curve in ally pics
Way too advance for me, but great video nonetheless
I love it just because it makes sense!
Thank you that was meat and potatoes pye
This was great ! Thank you .
Great video, thanks.
WOW Great video! Is there any way of being precise with the tone curve and how to remove any mistakes?
Tell me more of what you mean. For LR, this is about as precise as you can get.
just use arrows to move the points.
in C1 I actually open my curve editor full screen on the second monitor - can't get more precise than this. But I don't think you can do that in Lr
Great work. Thank you 😊
Cheers mate. Very helpful
Shift clicking on the point curve to restrain control to up and down movement is already worth the price of admission. Smashed (to use that silly Gen Z term for "clicked") the Like button after you showed us that. Thanks Pye!
Great video! One of the best I've ever watched on LR Curves. That said I found the background music to be very annoying...didn't add anything just got in the way.
Thanks, 3.14159!
🤯 Yes. YES YES YES! What I love so much about this is the parametric curve explanation AND ALSO the comment about how you build your presets. I want more of this! I’m not into selling presets but I make my own to improve/quicken my workflow. Paving my own preset path since there isn’t much out there for sports. (Also, i spend all my money on gear 😅)
Very good, thank you!
Thank you Pye and Adorama! Such high-quality & free education is such a privilege to have access to
Great Video! Helps a lot!
Dude this is so insightful, thak you so much for this video, I'm so glad I clicked it because I was tired of seeing others videos about the tone curve and just ended up being a S curve tutorial, now I understand better the concept as a whole
very usefull thanks
best tone curve vid i've ever seen
It distory my protrait shots
It looks like a great tutorial, but I'm lost right out of the chute; my Lightroom does not show whatever those options are (the red, green, and blue circles and the parametric curve option) that your version of Lightroom has. I guess I'm obsolete before I even get started.
Maravilloso!, gracias!
This video blew my mind. I have a whole new approach to editing my work. Thank you so much for this.
Very clear tutorial. Thanks. Greetings from Mexico City.
Great video. Can you cover blurring options in lightroom? Background blur specifically. Is taking clarity down with an inverted radial filter the only way?
Many people might know the subject, but only a few can teach like you can. This was by far the most clear tutorial on RGB tone curves. Also, your voice is so soothing and easy to follow! Where can I learn more on this topic and other layers/aspects of Lightroom from you? Also, thank you!! 😊
Awesome, thanks!
So I've paid for online tuition for Lightroom and Photoshop and it was only when I watched this video right here that I actually understood it. This is legit a fantastic overview.
Appreciate the video!
Thank you for this video. I was given up on Tone Curve for a while and didn't bother to play around it.