TONE CURVE TIPS

Tip 1: You Can Use Two Tone Curves at the Same Time The default configuration for Lightroom and ACR is that the tone curve is in the parametric curve editing mode . Clicking the icon in the lower right corner of the tone curve panel will switch to point curve editing mode , which is the preferred mode for most people. However, when you switch to the point curve editing mode, the changes in the parametric curve mode are still applied, but they don't show in the tone curve in the point curve editing mode. This essentially gives you two separate tone curves being applied to the image. I don't recommend using both of these at the same time; I just mention this as a warning that when you switch modes, you're not undoing the changes applied to the tone curve using the previous mode. If you decide to switch from the parametric curve editing mode to the more advanced point curve editing mode, you may want to reset the tone curve to linear before doing so. The point ...