The Tone Curve Panel in Lightroom Classic

[@darcybrown7369]

there's always something new for me in these excellent tutorials

[@mariolombardi4766]

Thank you - simply the best quick overview of the Tone Curve Panel.

[@lschiz-photography1765]

Wow and these excellent mini lessons keep on coming!! Thank you for all of these. It’s such a great collection of topical training snippets! As always… Excellent and that you!!

[@samelogio7441]

A great explanation. Thank you. I am really enjoying this series.

[@nospam-hn7xm]

This is the first of many videos I've watched on the tone curve that I understood. Clear and concise. Excellent work! Please, keep them coming. You've got a new subscriber.

[@keithsimpson8676]

Excellent video

[@GeoffGrant2010]

Thanks. I’ll have to try it. Kind of complex.

[@Gibsoneer]

Great Value! Thanks Julieanne 👍🏻

[@DavidSwarthout]

Another excellent video! Thank you Julieanne. This may not be a question you can answer but I'm curious why Adobe has put so much time into enhancing LR. As I've mentioned here before, as an old time Photoshop user, I prefer Photoshop for editing tone curves and I use its masks for dodging/burning, selective areas for color enhancements, etc., yet in recent months, LR has picked up several features that I would like to see in Photoshop (e.g. very powerful masking). What is Adobe's philosophy going forward? The two programs are currently offered in one subscription so I can freely use some features in both (via ACR) but I wonder if that situation might change in he future?

[@jkost]

Hi David, You can find all of the same features in Camera Raw as you can in LrC, plus (IMHO) LrC fits my workflow better because I'm working with such a high volume of photos and love it's batch processing capabilities. Under the hood, Camera Raw and LrC (and the entire LR ecosystem) are very different than Ps (Parametric vs Pixel based editing), so adding features to Ps is an entirely different process (although things like masking are now pixel based in Lr/CR). I'm not a coder, so I don't know all of the details, but that is my simplified understanding. With that said, there are definitely features that are in LRCR that I would love to see in Ps (the component masking in LrC is at the top of my list!).

[@KentNelson]

I love these. I did get a little lost at the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="408">6:48</a> mark where you said if I want to add to my shadows, I would click the channel and drag down toward . I think I followed that was where the shadows' colors were, but the "down to " got me. Down? Yellow? Sorry for the probably and possibly silly question.

[@dktraveller8364]

I love this series that you are doing. Any chance of an updated video on using dual monitors? I have gone back a few times to reference the one you did about nine years ago. Thanks.

[@jkost]

I haven't figured out how to record it. The last time I did, it was in the studio and we could record multiple screens at once... I don't believe that the functionality has changed and I hope to get to it in the future... So many videos, so little time. : )

[@kurtschmeer4678]

Julianne, love your tutorials. I have a lightroom question but don't know where I can ask you for advice. I don't see anywhere here or your website. Thanks.

[@keithdraycott]

Very cool. Now dump the monthly subscription fees and I might use it

[@NatPhoto56]

It would be really nice if Adobe would get the developers together that work the Basic Panel and the Developers that work the tone curve and have them use the same language for the tonal rangers: Basic panel: Blacks / Shadows / Highlights / Whites. Tone curve: Shadows / Darks / Lights / Highlights. And yes..... those are in the same order from darkest to brightest. Such a glaring UI screw up.

[@steevo1976]

I get your point, but perhaps it is an intentionally different naming convention? The tonal ranges differ in the various panels, so calling them the same thing would be inappropriate as the effect in the image when grabbing either/or would be different. Grabbing a slider in the basic panel is different to grabbing a similar section of the parametric curve as the range of values can be altered by the user, whereby they can’t be with the basic slider. A bit like vibrance affects the saturation, but not in the same way the actual saturation slider does. 😊