I've been looking for a video like this for a while! Very understandable! And as I am also in Edmonton.....well I just had to like and subscribe! Stay warm, it's going to be a frigid Christmas!
Great video Dunna. The order in which you explained matched with the thought process of how I'd want to learn it. From the sequence of examples and the time at which you showed the A/B comparison it was clear and also motivating. Thank you very much. Being a music producer who also into video production, I found this to is a gem.
This vid is priceless, period. I'm gonna try to utilize this concept into music production too, you know, the saturation/waveshaping curves kind of things. I think it's more subtle and thus difficult to observe changes in audio than visual. So if these two realm can be combined that'd be wonderful. I'm a musician and just starting to learn a little bit about video production, and I really like your voice, teaching, production, literally eveything. You're so inspiring.
Thanks so much! I wonder if you like my stuff because I’m a musician, producer, and recording engineer turned videographer, so on some level you can connect with that 😜
I've recently come up with a quick workflow using curves. I've only tried it on B&W so far, so take it for what it's worth: 1. Use the exposure slider to get your basic level of exposure into the ballpark. There might be other basic adjustments that would fit here, but I haven't yet worked out which ones. 2. [In curves] Grab the black point and raise it vertically ~ 10-15% so it's easier to distinguish information in the dark parts of the image during the following step. Now move the black point to the right until whatever dark pixels that you DON'T need in your final image have disappeared (will help to focus the viewer's eye on what's relevant). Finally, adjust the point vertically until you get a pleasing level of black (for example a dark grey for that washed-out look). 3. Do the same for the white point/level. 4. Make a point in the middle of the curve and adjust it to taste. 5. Create a point each between the mid point and the black and white points respectively. Adjust these two new points to your liking. 6. Maybe give the middle point another try. 7. Finally, leave curves and finish with exposure, contrast and brightness/gamma sliders. 8. Toggle the before/after button of your photo editing software and then file a request to legally change your name to "Ansel Adams 2.0".
You know, I often get envious of the Canadian creators because I believe they're blessed with some of the most beautiful country on the planet to photograph. Then y'all say things like -28 degrees and I am thankful I am where I am. I went to the beach yesterday.
Btw, I’m spoiled by DaVinci Resolve, and I want all its curves it a photo editor. Imagine those hue vs luma, luma vs saturation etc. and vectroscope, parade, etc
Being a C1 convert for many years the introduction of masking and luma curves makes it simple to hone any image. Combine masking with luma and it’s truly insane what you can do. 👍🏻
I've been using C1 for one year. During that time it's been my go-to editor. The C1 webinars are absolutely the finest webinars. David Glover and Paul Riefer have taught me an enormous amount about photo editing and C1. A few days ago I came across your Advanced Color Editor tutorial on UA-cam. Then I watched your Basic tab tutorial. And then the Curves tutorial. All three are outstanding. In a short time, I learned so much. Adding you to Glover and Riefer I've found the holy trinity. My gosh you guys, along with the C1 webinars, well I'm getting a college education. One added point, after watching your Curves tutorial (twice), I fixed a blown-out sky using only the perfect mask tool and the curves blue and green channels. It took all of 30 seconds. I would have never known to try this technique. Thank you very, very much for the extremely well-presented tutorials. Either you are a former teacher, a current teacher, or, perhaps you should have made teaching your career.
Hands down, curves is one of my favorite tools, which I use almost exclusively in any editing software. I wish Adobe would include it in their masks, and maybe even have a global layering option.
I have to confess I haven't been using curves whole lot.. rather I was using sliders hahaha;; I would love to know if there's like a skin tone indicator/guide similar to what video vector scopes does. I always eyeing whether skin tone is right on spot or not. Next video on this? thanks :)
@@dunnadidit 🙁 what’s your preferred method of getting perfect skin tone? Like I said for me, I just tweak untill it looks good on my eye which it lacks precision and consistency.
I like more Curve tool in Capture One than in Lightroom because of Luma Curve. Otherwise, I need to open Photoshop and put in blending mode Luminosity.
Hi, Im from the video "export settings for IG" sorry if I am out of the topic, when you will export a Horizontal Picture I need to crop the photo 4 x 5 too like the vertical photo?
You can just leave it horizontal. People just often do vertical because it takes up more screen real estate on Instagram when people are scrolling. That’s where the 4x5 thing comes from.
This is the best video on tone curves man, killed this one. Whenever I look for tone curves most of the people talk only about the RGB not about single channels this is gold 👍🏽 thanks man
I love using CO. I use curves but was not confident in using the color curves. I like the example you provided when comparing white balance adjustment vs curves. Thanks
It's such a cool thing because there are also several other ways to do half the things I mentioned. But curves seems to be the most consistent across different editing programs.
I’m from South Edmonton as well and yeah…this cold ain’t a whole lot of fun, lol! Thanks for the great Vid, I’m just a few months into this new hobby and passion of filmmaking and editing and your videos have helped me out a lot!
when you are editing the portrait with just the curves, I noticed the fuzzy part of the jacket has the sky shining through blue, and the sky is bright white. Would you have any advice on fixing this?
That was damn good. As a beginner I truly appreciate all videos I could find that go into detail on color grading. I’m sick of ending with pink/red faces on my photos. Thanks!
Great video Dunna! Is it fair to say that most (not necessarily all) sliders and tools in software are making adjustments to these curves just more selectively or in an ‘easier’ way?
Totally! In the end there are only so many things you can adjust. Color and light really. Curves is just one way of doing it that is a bit more flexible and user driven, the sliders are kind of pre-determined and fixed options
Agreed 100% but I didn’t wanna get too complicated… I LOOOOOOVE the levels. It’s such a great way to get things moved around where you want them smoothly. And it happens “before” the curves in the chain so you can kind of set yourself up for tweaking with curves after
That was so valuable, thanks a lot. I have been editing my photos with Lightroom for a while now but never really touched the color curves because I did not know what I am doing. Sometimes I felt out of control over my colors when I was editing for brightness only and now I know why. Just tried the film fade as well and it looks so sweet. Thanks again.
I won't lie, curves have always been intimidating for me. I've used it on a few things but never understood it enough to be confident. but this video made me understand it to the point Im excited for my next project .
Brother, you helped me a ton. I had shot some video and my settings on one camera recorded with way too much contrast and I never thought of doing the inverted S curve as you showed to lessen contrast. I tried everything else and I had the most crappy blacks that just looked smashed to the max. Just some slight inverted S curve action and wow what a huge difference. I was thinking there wasn't much to learn since we all think we sort of know the deal with curves but the inverted S curve totally never occurred to me. That's the beauty of so many YT vids,..you see content that is mostly a refresher then the guy/gal shows something you hadn't learned or ever tried and Boom...an extremely useful tip to save a project from mediocrity!!! Thanks Bro!
Thanks for sharing! So glad to hear it helped you! I know what you mean when you get that one little special nugget of info from a video that kinda changes a lot!
Hey hey man I've never quite been sold on the curves. Maybe I still need to unlock that wisdom or somethn haha. But why go through em when there are dedicated sliders available for all these tweaks that you mentioned? Eg. A dedicated slider for contrast, saturation, vibrance, midtones, highs etc. Or is it just a case of having yet another way to do these same things? But then even if it is just another way, aren't the dedicated sliders easier than curves anyway? Help me understand lol Cuz I'm seeing alottt of love given to curves.
Great question. The answer is a bit of what you mentioned… multiple ways to do the same thing. But it’s also much more nuanced and customizable when you use the curves. For example, when you use the highlights slider, you have no control over what your program considers to be highlights. Or if you add contrast using the slider, you don’t get to pick the points at which the contrast is happening. Often, I want to add contrast further into the shadows or only in the brighter areas, but I can’t get that with the slider. So yeah, sliders are easier, but you have way more control with the curves… but when you combine all the tools… bam!
I totally hear what you’re saying… It’s slightly different in this application because of how rgb works. It’s all a bit weird and confusing, but I can tell you 100% for sure that when I remove the entire red channel, I’m not left with green, I’m left with a combination of green and blue… making cyan. When I remove blue, it’s not orange, it’s yellow, and when I remove green, it’s not red, it’s magenta. Whether those are the opposites, or if you want to label them something else… that’s up to you for your own logistical purposes. But practically, I can confirm that it works this way when editing.
@@dunnadidit dude you live in Edmonton .. just checked the weather. It’s fucking cold there. You can do whatever you want, don’t listen to me ! I live in Greece ! I can send you some raw photos of forest if you want :d
The Color Balance Tool in Capture One is much more intuitive and efficient for color grading. If you want very specific colors in the three main tonal areas, it can get complicated fiddling with the individual RGB curves. Whereas, with the Color Balance tool, you can get precisely the color you are looking for much more easily.
Never realized the difference between RGB vs Luma curve adjustment. Your example on the impact those curves have on a portrait was so helpful.
Glad to hear it!!
Ditto!!! Such useful info, brilliantly explained and displayed. 👏 👏 👏 👏
I've been looking for a video like this for a while! Very understandable! And as I am also in Edmonton.....well I just had to like and subscribe! Stay warm, it's going to be a frigid Christmas!
A comprehensive guide to the curves tool! Very well done and very interesting, thanks!
Thanks so much!!
I've always been scared of using the curves, after this video i feel pumped to use them more 🙏🏼
Well done man thank you 🖤
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I'm colorblind, so it was pretty funny to watch absolutely same "before/after" pics
Great video Dunna. The order in which you explained matched with the thought process of how I'd want to learn it. From the sequence of examples and the time at which you showed the A/B comparison it was clear and also motivating. Thank you very much. Being a music producer who also into video production, I found this to is a gem.
Thanks so much for saying that! I reorganized the order of info a couple times for that exact reason. So I’m glad to hear it worked!
Your from my stopping ground!!! Thats dope, yeah I couldnt even take my dog for a walk
This vid is priceless, period. I'm gonna try to utilize this concept into music production too, you know, the saturation/waveshaping curves kind of things. I think it's more subtle and thus difficult to observe changes in audio than visual. So if these two realm can be combined that'd be wonderful. I'm a musician and just starting to learn a little bit about video production, and I really like your voice, teaching, production, literally eveything. You're so inspiring.
Thanks so much! I wonder if you like my stuff because I’m a musician, producer, and recording engineer turned videographer, so on some level you can connect with that 😜
Luma is the same luminance curve in lightroom,thanks bro that gives me an idea keep it up
I've recently come up with a quick workflow using curves. I've only tried it on B&W so far, so take it for what it's worth:
1. Use the exposure slider to get your basic level of exposure into the ballpark. There might be other basic adjustments that would fit here, but I haven't yet worked out which ones.
2. [In curves] Grab the black point and raise it vertically ~ 10-15% so it's easier to distinguish information in the dark parts of the image during the following step. Now move the black point to the right until whatever dark pixels that you DON'T need in your final image have disappeared (will help to focus the viewer's eye on what's relevant). Finally, adjust the point vertically until you get a pleasing level of black (for example a dark grey for that washed-out look).
3. Do the same for the white point/level.
4. Make a point in the middle of the curve and adjust it to taste.
5. Create a point each between the mid point and the black and white points respectively. Adjust these two new points to your liking.
6. Maybe give the middle point another try.
7. Finally, leave curves and finish with exposure, contrast and brightness/gamma sliders.
8. Toggle the before/after button of your photo editing software and then file a request to legally change your name to "Ansel Adams 2.0".
You know, I often get envious of the Canadian creators because I believe they're blessed with some of the most beautiful country on the planet to photograph. Then y'all say things like -28 degrees and I am thankful I am where I am. I went to the beach yesterday.
Thanks for sharing.
thank you so much, really healp , great job
Btw, I’m spoiled by DaVinci Resolve, and I want all its curves it a photo editor. Imagine those hue vs luma, luma vs saturation etc. and vectroscope, parade, etc
I couldn’t agree more
I understand curves so much better now! Very thorough tutorial. Thank you!
So glad to hear that!
Nice one Dunna.. next video about Level please
curves, the complete tool..... thanks !
Hi! My capture one shows blurred photos. They only get sharp when I zoom in. If you happen to know why this happens pls help.
Sounds like missing or corrupted previews. I would look into recreating previews if you can.
Hey man great video! Thanks!
Being a C1 convert for many years the introduction of masking and luma curves makes it simple to hone any image. Combine masking with luma and it’s truly insane what you can do. 👍🏻
I've been using C1 for one year. During that time it's been my go-to editor. The C1 webinars are absolutely the finest webinars. David Glover and Paul Riefer have taught me an enormous amount about photo editing and C1. A few days ago I came across your Advanced Color Editor tutorial on UA-cam. Then I watched your Basic tab tutorial. And then the Curves tutorial. All three are outstanding. In a short time, I learned so much. Adding you to Glover and Riefer I've found the holy trinity. My gosh you guys, along with the C1 webinars, well I'm getting a college education. One added point, after watching your Curves tutorial (twice), I fixed a blown-out sky using only the perfect mask tool and the curves blue and green channels. It took all of 30 seconds. I would have never known to try this technique. Thank you very, very much for the extremely well-presented tutorials. Either you are a former teacher, a current teacher, or, perhaps you should have made teaching your career.
Great vid.. instant subscribed!
Hands down, curves is one of my favorite tools, which I use almost exclusively in any editing software. I wish Adobe would include it in their masks, and maybe even have a global layering option.
Yeah that’s one of my FAVORITE things about capture one, when you make a mask or a layer, you get ALL the tools
I have to confess I haven't been using curves whole lot.. rather I was using sliders hahaha;;
I would love to know if there's like a skin tone indicator/guide similar to what video vector scopes does. I always eyeing whether skin tone is right on spot or not. Next video on this? thanks :)
Unfortunately there isn’t!!! But I’ve been yelling about photo editing software getting vectorscopes for a while now! It would be so helpful!
@@dunnadidit 🙁 what’s your preferred method of getting perfect skin tone? Like I said for me, I just tweak untill it looks good on my eye which it lacks precision and consistency.
Yup… calibrated monitor and doing it by eye. Reference photo if I need it
Great video! Love the channel.
I like more Curve tool in Capture One than in Lightroom because of Luma Curve. Otherwise, I need to open Photoshop and put in blending mode Luminosity.
Excellent video 👌
Very detailed 👍
Thank you.
Waiting for since more like this in future
👍 🙏
Sick video dude!! I never knew you were in Edmonton. I’m located in Calgary and man is it ever cold out!! Stay warm man cheers!
thanks so much for this tutorial!! so helpful!!
So, the curves are generally used after color correcting your footage. Am I right?
I usually use them after yes, but not always, it’s kind of up to you!
Best curves video I have watched, thanks. I am currently pretty conservative with my curves. I feel a bit more confident now.
If this guy was teaching math, I would have been an engineer :)
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hi from Northern Alberta! Capture One guy here as well, this was super well done bro, very nice!
Hi, Im from the video "export settings for IG" sorry if I am out of the topic, when you will export a Horizontal Picture I need to crop the photo 4 x 5 too like the vertical photo?
You can just leave it horizontal. People just often do vertical because it takes up more screen real estate on Instagram when people are scrolling. That’s where the 4x5 thing comes from.
@@dunnadidit Thanks a lot bro! Keep it breaking on youtube!
That is super cold 🥶
Hey, show how RGB(152,240,163) can be acheived on the RGB graph, basically convert the numerical values to graph
Great video man. I use curves all the time when color grading my videos.
Nice!
this was a very helpful video bro; I understand a lot more about colour grading since you explained it so clearly and concisely! :)))
well how did i miss this appreciate this content dunna thanks brother
Certainly the best video i've ever seen explaining how curves work. Everything is clear with great example. Nice job !
Such helpful information. Thx so much Dunna! 💛🙏🏼
Superb work on the endless benefits and invaluable skills of curves in Capture One. You did a great detail job here. I learnt a lot. God bless!
thank you, Dunna. I learned a lot from this video!
Can someone explain the difference between using color wheels and rgb curves for color grading?
Finally,, I have learnt why/when/ what I can do with curves. Thank you.
This may be a dumb question, but can this gimbal be screwed onto a regular sized tripod and used as a tripod gimbal head?
This is the best video on tone curves man, killed this one. Whenever I look for tone curves most of the people talk only about the RGB not about single channels this is gold 👍🏽 thanks man
I feel much comfortable using curves because of you now...thank you!
Thank you so much for this! I thought I had a pretty good understanding of curves, but you just taught me a ton!
Thats exactly what I was hoping to do with this video! Cheers!
Dunna Did It again!!!! Awesomely explained video, love it.
I never been in Canada but i think i love it, but -28 it's too cold for me ,thx bro for your video
One of the most comprehensive video on the subject I have seen, thank you 👍
Dammm... good video
Very well explained how to work with curves. The video is excellent and teaches what it needs to.🙂
I love using CO. I use curves but was not confident in using the color curves. I like the example you provided when comparing white balance adjustment vs curves. Thanks
It's such a cool thing because there are also several other ways to do half the things I mentioned. But curves seems to be the most consistent across different editing programs.
Thanks a lot for this tuto 🙏🏻 Your explanations are very precise.
Hello from France and Merry Chistmas !!!!!
Hello from Canada and Merry Christmas!
I’m from South Edmonton as well and yeah…this cold ain’t a whole lot of fun, lol!
Thanks for the great Vid, I’m just a few months into this new hobby and passion of filmmaking and editing and your videos have helped me out a lot!
Haha It's a little nicer now, but it was chilly last week when I filmed this! Hope you're keeping warm!
Thanks so much
Hi! Great video, but your voice as same the Benny Productions youtuber for me... 😅
Woow! This was great!🙌🏻🙌🏻
I loved the earlier intro tune better ! 😛
Thanks so much.
when you are editing the portrait with just the curves, I noticed the fuzzy part of the jacket has the sky shining through blue, and the sky is bright white. Would you have any advice on fixing this?
You can see if chromatic Aberration reduction will fix it but you could also use a mask and reduce blue on only that area
thank you so much, it's informative and useful, it helps me save so much time to editing photos
Great video, my friend... I live in edmonton, too, and it's really 🥶 today.
Hey what’s that devise you’re using to colour grade? Cheers
Surprisingly my favorite part of curves is using it for skin tone.
That was damn good. As a beginner I truly appreciate all videos I could find that go into detail on color grading. I’m sick of ending with pink/red faces on my photos. Thanks!
Lots more coming too!
Thanks bro. Always helpful.
What a pro! Good breakdown….so crazy. I just use S-Curves but this was crazy detailed. Nice job!
Thanks dude! Hopefully you picked up a new trick or two.
Your so good explaining all the details. Thank you so much for that :) definitely will watch all your videos ❤️
Thank you!!
I'm actually following along to my picture I took of the Muttart 😄
Thanks for explaining Luma, that was a great tidbit to learn!
Haha that’s awesome!! I may or may not have done a little cleanup to make that pyramid stand on its own first lol. No trees or other buildings.
Great video Dunna! Is it fair to say that most (not necessarily all) sliders and tools in software are making adjustments to these curves just more selectively or in an ‘easier’ way?
Totally! In the end there are only so many things you can adjust. Color and light really. Curves is just one way of doing it that is a bit more flexible and user driven, the sliders are kind of pre-determined and fixed options
There is another option you can try. It's called levels in CO and does the same thing but it is way more easier to handle the red, green and blue.
Agreed 100% but I didn’t wanna get too complicated… I LOOOOOOVE the levels. It’s such a great way to get things moved around where you want them smoothly. And it happens “before” the curves in the chain so you can kind of set yourself up for tweaking with curves after
That was so valuable, thanks a lot. I have been editing my photos with Lightroom for a while now but never really touched the color curves because I did not know what I am doing. Sometimes I felt out of control over my colors when I was editing for brightness only and now I know why. Just tried the film fade as well and it looks so sweet. Thanks again.
That’s great to hear!!
Bro! and that's all I have to say :)
Dude!
The best tone curve tutorial I have seen so far, thank you
Good tutorial bro. Just right on the detail👊
I won't lie, curves have always been intimidating for me. I've used it on a few things but never understood it enough to be confident. but this video made me understand it to the point Im excited for my next project .
Yay!!
The amount of gems in this video, salute
Brother, you helped me a ton. I had shot some video and my settings on one camera recorded with way too much contrast and I never thought of doing the inverted S curve as you showed to lessen contrast. I tried everything else and I had the most crappy blacks that just looked smashed to the max. Just some slight inverted S curve action and wow what a huge difference. I was thinking there wasn't much to learn since we all think we sort of know the deal with curves but the inverted S curve totally never occurred to me. That's the beauty of so many YT vids,..you see content that is mostly a refresher then the guy/gal shows something you hadn't learned or ever tried and Boom...an extremely useful tip to save a project from mediocrity!!! Thanks Bro!
Thanks for sharing! So glad to hear it helped you! I know what you mean when you get that one little special nugget of info from a video that kinda changes a lot!
Excellent tutorial! Ty!
Cheers!!
Thanks !
Every video has so much knowledge and information! Love it man, keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!!
Congrats to 170k dude! 2020 -> 200k eaaaasy!
Very well put together Dunna, thank you!
Your really good teacher enjoying learning from you
Excellent. Thanks for this.
What's the make and model of the monitor you use?
This is a great video Dunna! A lot of us have been needing something like this! You went in depth and explained everything well. Thanks for this!!
Thanks so much Adam! Glad you liked it!
Hey hey man
I've never quite been sold on the curves. Maybe I still need to unlock that wisdom or somethn haha. But why go through em when there are dedicated sliders available for all these tweaks that you mentioned? Eg. A dedicated slider for contrast, saturation, vibrance, midtones, highs etc. Or is it just a case of having yet another way to do these same things? But then even if it is just another way, aren't the dedicated sliders easier than curves anyway? Help me understand lol Cuz I'm seeing alottt of love given to curves.
Great question. The answer is a bit of what you mentioned… multiple ways to do the same thing. But it’s also much more nuanced and customizable when you use the curves. For example, when you use the highlights slider, you have no control over what your program considers to be highlights. Or if you add contrast using the slider, you don’t get to pick the points at which the contrast is happening. Often, I want to add contrast further into the shadows or only in the brighter areas, but I can’t get that with the slider. So yeah, sliders are easier, but you have way more control with the curves… but when you combine all the tools… bam!
@@dunnadidit
Ahh solid explanation man💪🏽 many thanks!
the opposite colors of red and green are green and red. For Blue is orange.
I totally hear what you’re saying… It’s slightly different in this application because of how rgb works. It’s all a bit weird and confusing, but I can tell you 100% for sure that when I remove the entire red channel, I’m not left with green, I’m left with a combination of green and blue… making cyan. When I remove blue, it’s not orange, it’s yellow, and when I remove green, it’s not red, it’s magenta. Whether those are the opposites, or if you want to label them something else… that’s up to you for your own logistical purposes. But practically, I can confirm that it works this way when editing.
@@dunnadidit dude you live in Edmonton .. just checked the weather. It’s fucking cold there. You can do whatever you want, don’t listen to me ! I live in Greece ! I can send you some raw photos of forest if you want :d
Haha yeah it’s pretty darn cold
Really well explained, thanks man 👊
The Color Balance Tool in Capture One is much more intuitive and efficient for color grading. If you want very specific colors in the three main tonal areas, it can get complicated fiddling with the individual RGB curves. Whereas, with the Color Balance tool, you can get precisely the color you are looking for much more easily.
Truth, maybe I’ll cover that in a video about the color balance tool.
@@dunnadidit Thanks for not taking my constructive criticism personally. Love your channel. You seem like a very nice person. All the best.
It didn’t seem like criticism at all. I assumed that since this was a video about curves only, you just wanted to also highlight another tool 🤙🏼
This was so great! Thank you
Yesssss easily the best explained on curves I've seen. Thanks!
Glad to hear it! Thanks Chris!
That was rad thanks Dunna!
Thanks brother!
thanks for this very helpful explanation.
Glad it was helpful!
When you break it down that way looks like they can do a lot to help edit
Heck yeah they can!!
Cool and simple explained! :)
What app do you use on your smartphone for fast machining after moving away from lightroom?
Why is everything that should be right on the left side in capture one? Everything is exactly the opposite way in this software.
You can customize that.
Great video Dunna! The best tutorial out there explaining how to use curve!