Advanced Photoshop: Curves

Master curves! Find out how to use the Curves panel in Photoshop to adjust tonality, make color corrections, produce creative effects, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Curve Fundamentals

• Setting up your Curves workspace
• Understanding how Curves works
• Taking a tour of the capabilities of Curves
• Making qualitative versus quantitative adjustments

2. Tone and Simple Color Adjustments with Curves

• Setting highlights and shadows
• Adjusting brightness and contrast
• Making area-specific tonal adjustments
• Making simple color and tone adjustments
• Using masks to control adjustments
• Challenge: Correcting tone
• Solution: Correcting tone

3. Numeric Color Adjustments with Curves

• Setting up color adjustments based on color channels
• Achieving color adjustments based on color channels
• Adjusting color brightness and contrast
• Making quick adjustments
• Correcting compound/complex color images
• Correcting multiple images
• Getting creative with Curves
• Quickly correcting color with a target
• Achieving super accurate, target-based color corrections
• Fine-tuning your curves
• Challenge: Correcting color
• Solution: Correcting color

Conclusion

• Next steps