Things You Don't Know About Tone Curves In Lightroom | Master Your Craft 

Can we talk about how soothing his voice is?

As a new photographer this has totally demystified the tone curve for me. Thank you so much. I can see myself using it so much more now.

This video helped a LOT. I've been fumbling around the tone curve for years. This video finally makes sense of it for me.

Dude this is so insightful, thak you so much for this video, I'm so glad I clicked it because I was tired of seeing others videos about the tone curve and just ended up being a S curve tutorial, now I understand better the concept as a whole

Wow, found this channel while searching for curves explained. Your voice and way of telling is so good! Thanks a lot!

Best explanation of the tone curve ever .. thanks alot

I just watched the video and for the first time in 2 months, I'm finally about to play around with the curves but this time with a little knowledge. Thank you, Pye🤠✌️

As always, nicely explained, thanks.

Shift key to constrain vertical, nice easy takeaway from this tutorial, thanks.

This is something amazing. So much simplified. Thank you!! Do you have the Lightroom tutorial series?

Finally a clear explanation. So powerful.

best tone curve vid i've ever seen

Shift clicking on the point curve to restrain control to up and down movement is already worth the price of admission. Smashed (to use that silly Gen Z term for "clicked") the Like button after you showed us that. Thanks Pye!

Thank you for creating such an excellent valuable content. Big thanks and cheers 🥂 from India. We learn a lot from your channel

Been looking for years for Tone Curve tutorials - Think I've found the One and Only! Thanks a million - this was great stuff to watch!

So good to have every single explanation in one video. Thanks

Many people might know the subject, but only a few can teach like you can. This was by far the most clear tutorial on RGB tone curves. Also, your voice is so soothing and easy to follow! Where can I learn more on this topic and other layers/aspects of Lightroom from you? Also, thank you!! 😊

U guys r so detailed.. Explain everything in details, at length.... With a soothing background music. Education was never so stylish. 👍👍👍👍 🙏🙏🙏🙏

🤯 Yes. YES YES YES! What I love so much about this is the parametric curve explanation AND ALSO the comment about how you build your presets. I want more of this! I’m not into selling presets but I make my own to improve/quicken my workflow. Paving my own preset path since there isn’t much out there for sports. (Also, i spend all my money on gear 😅)

This was a revelation, Pye, and you explained it very well. Thank you.

So I've paid for online tuition for Lightroom and Photoshop and it was only when I watched this video right here that I actually understood it. This is legit a fantastic overview.

That's the best video about tone curve so far I have watched! Thank you :)

Thank you for such a comprehensive explanation.

Amazing and helpful video! Maybe a video next on colour grading feature in Lightroom!

Thank you very much for this informative tutorial :)

Jesus Christ! this is literally the best video on Tone Curve. Much obliged, kind sir 😭🙌

This was such a great video. I have been playing with these curves, but I only end up messing up my photo which makes me go back to the sliders. Thank you for this video.

Very clear tutorial. Thanks. Greetings from Mexico City.

hey Pye, you did a wonderful job with this tutorial. very clear and concise. thank you very much

This is by far the best tutorial on tone curves!

Great work. Thank you 😊

Pye, that is an excellent overview. I had to discover these things myself in the past, too. As to the "Tone Curve", you missed a point that, IMO, is very important. The left-bottom start point of the Tone Curve and the top-right end of the Tone Curve mark the "Black Point" and "White Point" IN YOUR OPINION in your photo. These points can be shifted horizontally. The shot you use in this lesson, has a little happening in about 40% of the X-axis in the Tone Curve diagram (the histogram under the line you manipulate). Imagine you shift the White Point horizontally-left to the 60% X-axis point (so it stays at the top), then you now have told LR that it can treat that X-axis point as 255 White. As a consequence, with 0% X-axis being the Black Point, you now distribute the 0..255 reach over the 60% X-axis domain. This changes your photo's representation in another way than messing with sliders of exposure/zones and contrast. In camera - I have shot metering "expose for highlights" recently, and there may be a tiny bright highlight spot in the subject driving exposure, that IMO does not need any detail at all, and I have no or almost no histogram for the top 40% X-axis - this White Point approach totally pulls such shots up from dark and moody. (Wait, but aren't you afraid to lose shadow detail? Haha, only if I shot the same camera brand as Pye. But seriously, you could. you have to build an understanding - experience - of circumstances when metering for the highlights plays against you.) Back in LR. You can still apply the Y-axis shifts to the Black Point and White Point as per your demonstration too, of course. Note you can "reverse" the image processing in LR. Take a scan of a negative, shift the Black Point from 0,0 to 0,100% and the White Point from 100%,100% to 100%,0 and 'bam' you have your positive and the sliders all avail still (but they may need to be mirrored in your thinking). Compared with Capture One, Lightroom does the Black & White Points in the Tone Curve. C1 allows this and the mid grey point to be applied in the Histogram - where it should be, IMO. (I don't own C1.)

This is an excellent explanation of the tone curve!

I love this! It helps me understand it completely now! Thank you!

Excellent - the best explanation of Curves I've ever watched - and I've seen a lot of them!

First time someone made it easy. Thanks!!!

Great inputs!

Great explanation

Thank you. More Curve vs Grading

Awesome, thanks!

This is the best explanation of tone curve ever! Thank you for sharing your expertise.

So good,thanks 🍀

Thank you for the information

Fantastic video

I don’t know if you remember but I asked you about this in your Tik Tok Live a few weeks ago. Thank you for making such a thorough video about it!

Thank you for this video. I was given up on Tone Curve for a while and didn't bother to play around it.

Thanks so much for this information, Pye! You’re a great teacher, and this is extremely helpful, even for me, someone who’s trying to learn more about color grading video footage than photos or Lightroom

Pye I can only say it this way, Thank you Thank you Thank you for this absolute life altering curves tutorial.

This was so well presented . I have my iPad Pro with Lightroom and will certainly try out your instructions

Excellent, very informative and helpful. Many thanks!

Thanks for a great tutorial! You are a very good teacher!

Did I like this video...? Oh yes I did 👍 Thank you

🙌👍🏻👍🏻Great video Pye!! But...do you recommend to allways start by adjusting the tone curve rather than starting with the basic sliders? Couldnt we acheive the same result by only using the sliders instead of the tone curve? Honestly, I find the sliders more intuitive to use 🙃

Amazing amazing stuffs

Thank you ❤❤❤

Love your teaching style man. You do a great job explaining the subject matter.

Thank YOU. learnt so much today. 🙏🏻

I definitely appreciate tutorial videos like this. Lightroom has always been something I'm unfamiliar with; I have only a passing working knowledge of Photoshop.

Great video! One of the best I've ever watched on LR Curves. That said I found the background music to be very annoying...didn't add anything just got in the way.

Great vídeo, thanks from Portugal.

Thanks a lot.

That was a beautiful tutorial, just 1 question, when i work in my latest lightroom point curve and parametric curve are independent(not able to refine as you explain in the video- it looks like a untouched curve, do we have to link it or something) hope i am clear to you?

Pye as usual you've delivered the goods, have a great week #Londonlovesyou

Do you recommend to jump straight in to tone curves before anything else?

Great!

Beyond global adjustments what is the difference between Tone Curve and Control Grading Panel?

I never thought the point and parametric curves were independent from each other. Mind blown.

how do you get the brush selection list for radial gradient? I have no options in my light room for preset brushes only sliders

When I switched from the point curve to the parametric curve, I lost my "matte curve" and it become linear. Then when I returned to the point curve, it was back. How do I maintain the point curve's shape when switching to parametric?

best tutorial ever

When I followed along, I made the adjustments to the point curve. But, as soon as I click on the Parametric curve icon, I'm presented with an unaltered straight line. When you made your adjustments to the Point Curve and then clicked on the Parametric Curve, your original point curve was preserved so that you could make subtle adjustments with the Parametric parameters. What am I doing wrong? Ron

it would help if we could see where you are clicking -- a zoomed in screen shot

The raw file is good as well

Is there a way to make the Tone Curve a percentage of the full adjustment?

I have just realised how little I know about LR !!

but sir, as per your histogram the image still looks severely underexposed right? please help me get this, when my graph looks too underexposed, i try to balance the histogram by adjusting basic panel exposure and highlights, shadows etc... again just coz it looks underexposed as per the histogram. So then i export and test it on various devices, and if ever my histogram is as dark as you showed in the video, then my images look too dark on these devices even after pumping device brightness.... so please correct my interpretation, hope i'm making sense... thank you :)

People ask me why is it when I grab the curve at the mid-tone and go up/lighten or down/darken the blackest and whitest tones don’t get effected. Why?

It looks like a great tutorial, but I'm lost right out of the chute; my Lightroom does not show whatever those options are (the red, green, and blue circles and the parametric curve option) that your version of Lightroom has. I guess I'm obsolete before I even get started.

Good job 👏

Very helpful. thanks you

Well presented though the background music was unnecessary

When I clicked on the parametric curve it reset the curve back to neutral…. I couldn’t refine my tone curve.

Thank you that was meat and potatoes pye

honest truth i prefer the raw file :(

The explanation is great but I wonder why these kind of instructors never show their software skills using a good picture instead of a mediocre one.

Way too advance for me, but great video nonetheless

👍😉

Very good video! But music is distracting and adds nothing to your presentation, which is excellent.

fantastic video, thanks so much!

Pye u r the best instructor ever. For years I’ve been following your tutorial and courses. Boy... u r charismatic and so knowledgeable, buddy! Thanks for all the years of sharing knowledge!

I bet you didn't know, but if you hold alt you can make fine adjustments on the curve. Too bad it only works in lightroom and not in photoshop .

Pye my man, this is amazing! I learn something ew every time you and Adorama drop a video. You guys are awesome. Thank you.

This was possibly the best Lightroom tutorial video I've watched. And I've watched A LOT of them. Thank you, Pye, for helping me to take my editing to the next level in just 16 minutes.

Great teacher - BUT background musac is repetitive and NOT good. Would be better without. Meant to be a constructive comment as I do love your presentations.

this was a fantastic video. wow

Pye, I've been an amateur photographer for many years now, progressing slowly but steadily in my understanding how things work. I followed your Dodge & Burn tutorial yesterday and your Tone Curve tutorial right now. It was like two revelations! I understood so much in so little time, it's mind-blowing. Thank you so much. And: Congratultations! I have rarely found someone who is NOT ONLY KNOWLEDGEABLE BUT CAN ALSO EXPLAIN THINGS as well as you do. I know what I'm talking about. I've been an instructor and facilitator myself for three decades. - Pye, please, keep going like you do. I will certainly want to follow you and hear more from you! - Norbert from Germany

I knew the tone curve at the most basic level but this video just elevated it’s possibilities for me. I’m so excited to use it to its full potential now. Thank you!

This was a near perfect tutorial for me. But the one thing I struggle most with it the rgb curve

You can change the contrast of an entire image with color curves also - just pull down/up all 3 curves on same place for black/white. Just a note :)

Wonderful demonstration! Thanks!