Have you ever taken pictures where the background was much brighter than your subject, or seen shots where the subject just leaped out of the image? Or have you ever spent hours fiddling with multiple contrast, brightness, levels and other adjustment layers to achieve a look that you want? The curves tool in Photoshop will allow you to do all of that, plus much more.
The curves tool is basically an enhanced version of the levels adjustment that allows you to make targeted brightnes, levels, and contrast adjustments to specific tonal ranged of a photo. The dialog may seem a bit odd at first, but once you see how it is used and how easy it is to make powerful, professional edits to your shots, you’ll soon learn to love it.
Photoshop – Adjusting Curves for Beginners
Photoshop Tutorial Learn the Power of Curves
After watching these tutorials about curves in Photoshop, you should begin to see the power of how they can be used and stacked to make very powerful image adjustments.
Here’s a photograph of a girl I took in the West Bottoms in Kansas City a while back with my Nikon D90
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