Curves Update! Refine Saturation in Lightroom and Photoshop

[@TC_Conner]

I'm like you Matt, in that I usually adjust my blacks and whites (by holding the Option key for both adjustments) manually other than use the Curves tool. Good instructional! (Finding your How To course to be extremely helpful!) 👍🏼

[@MattKloskowski]

Thanks! Everyone is different and, while I don't use them, I know there are a lot of Curves lovers out there.

[@notallaboutmeministry3285]

Same here

[@martinlennon4673]

Useful information. Thanks Matt, Martin 🤓

[@CharlieMartorelli]

Thanks!

[@csc-photo]

Great vid, thanks! I'm not the biggest Tone Curve guy either (I kind of feel guilty about this lol). I've been using the histogram for some adjustments, essentially the same thing as using the Basic sliders but it makes sense to me.

[@josediazh3890]

Muchas gracias.

[@rolandbogush2594]

Great video, as always, Matt - thank you. I don't know when they added it, but I just noticed that when you do a Mask selection (eg subject) a check box now appears immediately under the top most tool bar to 'invert' the selection. Unlike the option you get by right-clicking the three dots by the mask icon itself, this doesn't duplicate and invert, it just inverts - so I guess it's only useful if you somehow selected 'subject' instead of 'background' or vice versa. Maybe you already covered this and I missed it.

[@MattKloskowski]

Hi Roland. Invert has always been there. They did add the checkbox in the first update after they changed the masking panel a couple of years ago. Definitely a good option. Thanks!

[@benlwong]

I love to know if you can get the same results using other panels as using the Curves panel (I am guessing yes?) and how the other panels and controls map to the adjustments in the Curves panel.

[@MattKloskowski]

Hi. You won’t find any way to do an exact comparison since it’s impossible. This is a visual hobby so my best suggestion is to move around sliders and adjustments and see what happens and what ones make similar changes and how they affect the photo. You’ll learn much more than a technical answer. Good luck!

[@ALMAR-Music-Ltd.]

I feel your customers should get a little bit of a pre-talk adjustment when using the screens whether it's an iPhone or a computer, to make a fair adjustment in viewing your tutorials - this is just a suggestion because a lot of times we take it for granted that our screens are always conducive to a great video tutorial such as yours

[@waynelytton7517]

I never use curves in Camera Raw, however its my main tool in Photoshop

[@thomastuorto9929]

Thanks for the vid. Do you think using curves to raise the shadows produces less noise? Curious.

[@MattKloskowski]

Nope. Noise in shadows is noise... if you make them brighter, no matter the method, you will reveal it the same. Thanks!

[@thomastuorto9929]

@@MattKloskowski Thank you.