In this lesson I'm going to show you the tone curve so I have this photo of Sam brought back up one
that I want to make a little bit more contrast.
So if you open this curve you can see that we have sliders down below.
But you have this sort of histogram square with this line in the middle on the left hand bottom side
you have your blacks on the top right you have your whites.
We're in the parametric view which means you have to use these sliders down below to adjust this line.
So if I bring down the darks bring up the lights you can see that it creates this s looking curve.
You'll hear a lot about the S curve with contrast and foot photography and S curve creates more contrast.
I can do this manually.
Let me undo those and go to a point in here I can go in and just click the curve.
It creates a point where I click and drag when I let go it will lock that point there then I can click
up here and drag up so dragging up is increasing exposure dragging down is decreasing exposure.
So if you want to add crazy contrast you can create an S curve that looks like that.
Now right now I am adjusting the entire color spectrum.
RG B if you remember our color lesson you know that one way to view photos is through RG B which encompasses
all the colors.
We also have this dropdown where we can edit specific channels of colors so say we want to go into the
blue setting and increased the blues.
We can click and drag this curve or click and drag it down you can create and ask her with the blues
to make more contrast with the blues.
If it's too red you can bring down the Reds.
And when you bring down the Reds what's left green and blue so you kind of can play around and get some
really cool shots with these curves and you don't just have to do an S curve you can do sort of a there's
not really a Z curve but a backwards S curve or an upside down has see how cool that looks.
I mean this is very stylistic but it's one way that you can adjust the curve if you want to undo this
just go up to the curve when you click linear and then we'll set everything back.
I like using the point curve because I can really dive in there and make things more contrast.
You can also take the white and black points which are these points in the corner and drag them.
So if I take this Black Point and drag to the right or up I can make the Black Point blacker so everything
gets darker or I can make it brighter.
So all the blacks actually become more gray more light.
If I go all the way up the blacks become white.
Same with the top right with the whites.
If I drag down the whites B can't come wider if I drag to the left the whites become darker.
Cool so that's the tone curve in the next lesson we're going to be looking at vignettes and grain to
stylistic things and then we'll be saving our images before going through more of these other advanced
features.