This CHANGED My Editing... Learn Lightroom Curves In 20 Minutes
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Lightroom tone curves will finally MAKE SENSE after watching this video tutorial. Here's everything you need to know about how to use the tone curve tool panel in Lightroom CC & Lightroom Classic like a pro.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction to Tone Curves
Overview of the tutorial's goal to simplify and demystify the tone curve in Lightroom.
1:03 Understanding the Tone Curve Interface
Explanation of the different elements in the tone curve, including the two gray curves and RGB curves.
2:26 Adjusting Basic Tones
Demonstrating the impact of adjusting blacks, whites, shadows, and highlights on the overall image.
4:21 Precision with the Point Curve Tool
Introduction to the point curve tool for making specific adjustments to different parts of the image.
5:56 Recovering Contrast with Tone Curve
Comparing the tone curve's selective contrast adjustment with the global contrast settings.
7:44 Selective Corrections
Using the tone curve to selectively correct specific areas in an image without affecting the overall balance.
9:36 Tips and Tricks for Precision Editing
Providing tips on making precise adjustments using the option/ALT key, arrow keys, and avoiding overcorrection.
10:11 Real-Life Examples and Practice
Applying the concepts learned to real-life examples, encouraging viewers to practice with downloadable images.
13:30 Using red, green, and blue channels for selective color adjustments.
Adding color to different tones in the image.
S-Curve for Contrast
16:41 Creating an S-curve for contrast using the main tone curve.
Explaining the shape of the S-curve and its effect on contrast.
Color Grading with Tone Curve
17:08 Adding an orange and teal look using the red, green, and blue channels.
Achieving the effect without using color grading.
Advanced Skin Tone Correction
18:01 Correcting skin tones with the tone curve.
Creating a mask for selective adjustments.
Creating a Preset for Skin Tone
20:00 Turning the tone curve adjustments into a preset for quick application.
Demonstrating the application of the preset for skin tone.
Conclusion
20:23 Recap of the key features of the Lightrom tone curve.
I’ve watched people use that curve probably 300 times and not once till now have I known that you can click on the photo to position the point. Everybody else just clicks on the line in three places, always roughly in the same place, and then moves the curve. Makes so much more sense when you explain it the way you did. Thanks.
Same
Professional Photog/Cinematog here--- I stopped watching tips n tricks editing vids years ago, but this one was done in such a clear, concise and practical way that I had to keep watching! Well done
It was interesting to see your approach to using the same tools, but in a different perspective and approach. Well done man
personally I like your delivery speed, you get to the point quickly and you can always slow it down or go over it again. Despite using curves for some time, as usual, there's always something to learn from you. Keep it up.
Editing for like 8 years never have seen a video so good about this. Totally changes my way i look at editing! Thankyou!
Honestly, the most useful tutorial on Curves I've ever seen. Thank you so much!
I'm a new fan of this channel. I usually rise speed of videos to 1.25, 1,5 but this video is perfect... And I'm not even a native english speaker.
Gret info, thank you.
Thanks so much Gus! Tons of people telling me I'm going too fast so it's good to hear it wasn't too fast for everybody :) I'm a weirdo and watch everything on YT at 2X (or most often 3X) which is probably why I go so fast when I make my own vids... Anyways, thanks for watching!
Me too!
Same
perfect playback in 0.75 speed.
i think its the natural speed :)
There are so many videos about Lightroom's tone curve - they're useful enough, but most of them impart the same basic information. You, instead, have shown some inventive techniques, opening up all sorts of avenues for us to experiment even further. You're an excellent teacher, Ryan, and this has given me more confidence to employ the tone curve where I might otherwise have resorted to Lightroom's colour grading panel, or even to the calibration tool. Perhaps you can do more videos on these as well?! At any rate, thanks for this great video!
Wow thank you so much! So glad to hear it connected and brought something fresh. That's a lot of pressure to repeat consistently haha! But I'll try. Definitely writing down color grade + calibration as future video topics :)
Just happened across this. Excellent! Learned some useful things! Thanks.
@@SignatureEdits Great! I'll look forward to the Calibration one! Thanks again, Ryan.
I think I have just learned more in 21:22 mins about pragmatically using the tone curve in Lightroom than every other video/book chapter I have looked at put together. Superb, crystal clear explanations linked to examples. You have an excellent coaching technique that puts across complex bits of information easily and simply (and that's coming from someone who spent quite a few years performance coaching). To summarise, I will put this video experience up with learning about the link between shutter speed/aperture/ISO for the first time about 55 years ago. You pulled it all together for me and without a doubt aided my photography workflow. Thank you.
That’s the best explanation I’ve ever seen. I was always intimidated by the curves. Now I can see the potential it offers. Thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I've been using Photoshop 20+ years and of course, used Curves all the time...but your tutorial really clarified some of the stuff Curves does in a way I never even considered. THANK YOU!!!!!
Great video! I normally would feel overwhelmed by the faster pace of the video, but I actually feel like even though you were speaking quickly, you spent enough time on each point for it to sink in while also keeping things feeling engaging and not at all boring. I watch a lot of tutorial-esque videos like this, but rarely feel like I need to comment. Really liking your energy, knowledge, and skill. Just subscribed. 👍🏼
been working as a photographer for 6 years now and just clicked on this out of curiousity, and i never thought to use curves for skin correction with the mask tool before. nice trick! I'll definitely be using that. love how there's always something new to learn in creative fields. thanks!
The reason why we use different primary colours in painting and photography is because in painting we subtract colours and in photography we add colours. In painting, we start with a white canvas and every pigment layer blocks certain colours. In photography, and in the human eye, we start with black and add colours. In painting we therefore use anti-red, anti-green, and anti-red (i.e. the pigments that block red, green and blue, respectively) as primary colours, which are cyan (anti-red), magenta (anti-green) and yellow (anti-blue) as primary colours and the closest approximations of these three colours on an ordinary colour palette as we know it from elementary school are blue (approximating cyan), red (approximating magenta) and yellow.
Very true! Great explanation Bern. I wanted to cover all this in the video but for the sake of brevity (and not confusing people too much) decided it wasn't super relevant to photo editing so had to cut it. Appreciate the explanation!
While in theory you can put points anywhere on the curve, you also run the risk of creating some really weird effects in certain ranges of tone if your curve isn't relatively smooth.
I have 10+ years' xp in photography and this is the first time i saw a tutorial that actually made sense in regard to RGB curves in Lightroom. Thanks!
You are going to change my life, I have been struggling for years as wedding photographer and always been scared with the curve and people dont break it down like you have. Thank you so so so much!!!!
Im just getting into photography and photoshop. Lightroom has been pretty intimidating and im blown away how easy it is to learn from you. 10/10 my good sir. THANK YOU!
Thanks for this! Sometimes one person can explain a concept in a way that makes the perfect amount of sense after many have failed.
Well said! Glad it connected :)
I'm glad I know enough to have gotten me as far as I've gotten today. It helps me understand why the tone curves are better and more accurate.
Even if I only control the intensity of different areas I can already see a huge benefit. not to sound too mushy, thank you for sharing and teaching this stuff. even though I already make a living off of it, you're making my life even better at work. I'm a perfectionist and the thought that I can do better,
It's just so motivating!
That's so encouraging to hear! One thing is for sure, we're better together and none of us ever reaching the finish line of knowing everything. Which makes life much more interesting and fun. Appreciate this comment Genifer!
Excellent ! I use the tone curve but never knew about using the pointer to select from the photograph. You do talk fast but you make sense and don't waste time. Thanks.
Glad to hear it Maureen!
I am in awe of how thourough was your explanation! That was perfect! Thank you.
Super helpful! I've always avoided curves and done local adjustments. Best tutorial on this I've come across. Thanks.
This is the first time tone curves have actually made sense! Thank you!
Great video, thanks!
I’ve watched, practiced, & rewatched a lot of curve videos trying to squeeze every last drop of know-how from them but I gotta say this 20min video was packed full of goodies from really basic to very advanced! Those tips about copy pasting the luminance curve to the RGB channels is pure genius & that skin mask preset is so obscure but incredibly useful - I’d just been bumping shadows in my skin masks before 😂
Big thanks 🙏🏼 keep doing what you’re doing! Your high quality writing, planning, scripting, shooting will definitely pay off!!
This is so helpful! Thankyou! As a new user to Lightroom, I’m finding it overwhelming at times. There’s just so much going on & this fixes my dilemma for sure.
Been looking for a video on Tone curves and this is it. Delivery speed is a bit fast but the content is gold. I now understand way better. Thanks!
This is THE BEST tone curve tutorial I’ve ever seen. Thanks so much!!!
Thank you for the video it was very helpful, super simple to understand, less intimidating to use curves! 😊
Finally someone who knows how to explain the tone curve!
Yesssss, finally a vid for people like me - beginners 😂. Really informative and cool. Cheers mate
Excellent explanation and the skin tone correction is the best I've seen. I've never been a fan of curves but I know using selective color like I do has some distinct limits. Your explanation here makes the tone curve easier to understand and use!!!! I have a number of older images with lots of facial highlights and dark areas and need to even them out. This curves technique should help a great deal with that!!!!!!! MANY THANKS!!!!!
I've saved this. This makes tone curves much more clear and less intimidating. Thank you.
I think the powerful thing of curves in lightroom is, that it applies after all other adjustments, so you can create film looks with it - or how I use it create two edits in one preset kinda.
Great video! I learned so much and want to try it on my pictures immediately 😁 thank you so much!
Today I can say I finally understand the tone curves. Thanks a lot. You don't know how this will impact my editing on weddings and other stuff. If you have patreon I will totally send some money because this video, safe time and money on editing. Thanks a lot man.
Great video. The first time I've actually understood how the tone curve works, thankyou!
Great to hear Garry! Glad it helped make this confusing tool a little clearer! Thanks for watching :)
A little tip for all : people generally assume that if you want to affect a color, you have to work on the curve of the matching color. So if your picture has a red dominant, your first reflex would be to reduce the red channel. But you will often have better results by modifying the other curves in an opposite direction. So in my example, to reduce a red dominant you should rather try to augment green and blue values instead. It’s complementary colors logic :
- reducing red makes shadows lighter red but augmenting it makes highlights darker cyan;
- reducing green makes shadows lighter green but augmenting it makes highlights darker magenta;
- reducing blue makes shadows lighter blue but augmenting it makes highlights darker yellow;
- augmenting red+green makes highlights darker red but reducing them makes shadows lighter cyan;
- augmenting red+blue makes highlights darker green but reducing them makes shadows lighter magenta;
- augmenting green+blue makes highlights darker red but reducing them makes shadows lighter yellow.
Great thoughts Yann! Thanks for sharing :)
Nice tip!
This is hard to understand...suppose my highlights have very 'saturated' red (what I think you mean by 'dark'), so I go to the blue and green channels and drag the same points upwards to also make them saturated at the same luminance value?
@@iamthe226 Yes, that’s the idea. Neutralizing a dominant by adjusting its complementary colors to the same level rather than only trying to adjust the dominant. It’s a case by case scenario though, so you should experiment yourself to see firsthand if that’s what you are looking for as a a final look.
This video is GOLD. Thank you so much very in depth explanation! 🙌
Thank you ❤ using Lr since 4 years never found a better tutorial about understanding the tone curve!!!
Rock on! So glad to hear it helped you :) Thanks for the watch!
The best explanation of curve I've ever seen.
I haven't even installed this program yet.. A couple minutes into this video, i already understand so much and see so much potential on what I can do. Thanks for explaining so well and making it seem simple. I can't wait to get into editing. It's been fun so far!
Wow that’s amazing! Thanks for the comment and for watching!
Love the enthusiasm very easy to digest and understand. Been editing over a decade and never touched tone curves unless editing video. Thanks!!
Appreciate the kind words! Glad it was helpful
Thanks for the knowledge. You just made me think about the tone curve and will use it most of the time now. Thank you
Watched tons of videos of editing photos this is gold for understanding curves
That was the most useful video I have watched on the tone curve. Thank you. Just put it into practice with some of my images and it started to sink in. Thank you.
this video was so helpful. thank you so much. Yup I've watched a ton of tone curve tutorial but a single person told about the adjust pointer that to could used to change curve at particular point of the image.
I can’t thank you enough for this elaborate and detailed explanation. Your video saved the day for me. Cheers and thank you once again♥️
Great tutorial. 🥂 For those who think the dialogue is too fast, adjust the video playback speed by tapping the video, then clicking the gear icon (on the top-right)
This was an excellent tutorial. Thanks. As a very long time user of Lightroom, I still learned a thing or two!
Awesome, to the point …no time wasted, nicely explained…well done!
After learning how to put points on a curve, you'll spend the rest of your life learning how to fine tune a transform function ("curve") to make truly sublime improvements to your 2D representations. That part, how you use this tool, is a whooole other journey ; )
haha i don’t understand this at all but it sounds awesome. thanks for the comment ;)
@@SignatureEditsThere's a photoshop/lightroom tool called curves, giving the most flexibility in controlling contrast and color. Many shy away because of an apparent but not terribly real steep learning curve. Folks who learn how to use the tool in a basic sense, open themselves up to the most creative control possible in their imagery. But, to use 'master' it to promote targeted emotional response (the basis of aesthetic reaction/response in print appreciation), one must spend years, even decades working with it. Not because the tool is complicated, but because aesthetic modulation is complicated. The tool only gives you more fine grained control over nuance. Once you crack open nuance, you're in for a journey lasting the rest of your life. This is true for many arts, curves are the instrument of this.
Excellent tutorial. Thank you!
Superbly presented!
Clear, concise and delivered at a pace that holds attention and treats my time with respect. I have learnt much that will stick, so thanks!
You can really see that he loves what hes doing🥰
An absolute goldmine of tips! Thank you for this excellent tutorial.
You make tone curve less intimidating now. excellent tutorial
This is legendary! Had no clue you could do all that with the tone curve. Great video.
Great video, thank you for this. Would you still use the highlights/shadows/whites/blacks sliders at the same time as you would with the tone curves?
And I thought I knew the curves pretty well!!!
Thanks man!💛
This is the best, most well explained video i have ever seen. Thank you so much for explaining this in such a clear, easy to understand way!
Excellent video! I’m subscribing. Can’t tell you how much time I have spent trying to figure out how to correct high contrast skin. Thank you.
so glad i subbed to you. Been editing for years, and while the curves are nothing new to me, the way you apply your editing is different to me. just small details to apply with more precision. thanks!
Brilliant! Glad it gave you some different ideas to try. I'm the same - Seeing others approach things differently is how I grow :) Thanks for watching!
Man this was such an excellent tutorial. I have been messing with point curves wrong this whole time.
I feel you man. I´ve been developing as a photographer, but tone curve was excepcionally hard to understand by myself, then this video came into my feed and here I am with better understanding about my creative tools
so glad to hear it!
Wow - love your energy. And the info! Thx
This was an excellent video on using the Tone Curve in Lightroom. Great job.
I found that to be incredibly useful and informative. Glad I found this video and I will definitely look for more from you. Thanks very much.
Thanks Ryan, that was a super cool explanation of how the tone curves work. Impressive!
Thank you very much, i learned alot by watching this video !
Great video! Thanks so much. Still learning how to use Lightroom and this was great! Looking forward to practicing this.
Awesome video! Will start using it now! Thanks for sharing it 😊
Really outstanding video. I've watched many tone curve videos, but this one is consistently brilliant.
Wow, thanks Eric! Appreciate it and glad to hear it was helpful!!
Lightroom intimidated me but I feel more comfortable now. Thanks!
Hands down the best curve tutorial I have seen and understood 🎉
Its crazy, I have never used Curves(never learned) but after watching this I'm kind of confused as to which would work better, masking or Curves. Im going to try the Curves as it seems like it makes the adjustment look more real. Thanks for the video.
Hmm well your question is a little complicated, since masking HAS CURVES built into it as an option! It’s kind of like this: Should you use a hammer to build a house, or a screwdriver? The answer: It depends on what you’re doing - Probably some of both.
Same thing applies to curves. Sometimes they’re better than local adjustments, other times not so much.
Curves for the overall look and feel of the image. Local adjustments for edits to specific parts.
Great tutorial, thank you!!!
On one hand, this information is super valuable and the way you presented it is great. On the other hand, videos like this made me regret spending four years going to college haha.
😂 well i am glad it was valuable for u kenny!!!
Superb video. Learnt a lot. Thank you!
Just blew my mind 🤯😂
Thank you for this video. Best explanation I have seen, and I understood everything. Thank you. 👍
Wonderful tutorial
I feel like I'm good at editing etc but not really understood why people go 'too far', reducing contrast and then recovering said contrast after. (For example) this explains the reasoning really well thanks for the great tutorial!!
Awesome tutorial 🎉
awesome! thanks
Thanks a lotz bro ...❤ For sharing ur knowledge with us 🎉
Great Demo!
Very interesting! Thanks a lot! I have to practice!
Great video! Very helpful explanation of the tone curve.
Great tutorial Thank you.
How do you talk so excitedly all the time? It comes across real and natural, Which is great. I hope it's not too much effort on your part.
😂 Thanks Genifer! I guess it's because I actually AM excited about it haha. I'm a bit of a dork ;)
Best tone curve tutorial i ever seen. Thanks a lot ❤
This is the best video I’ve seen on tone curves. Kudos for the informative session and you just gained a lifetime subscriber.
Welcome aboard! For real though - Thanks for watching and for the sub - I appreciate the comment and kind words!
Nice explained, thank you so much, keep going
that is mind blowing.
I salute you
Thabk you so much
just discovered your channel and im can say as a beginner photographer theres a lot of info i am learning! ❤ subbed! 💯
Thanks for this video, bro!
Just amazing! This should have thousands and thousands of views :) Great explanation.
Very valuable information!
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