Comments on: The Diminishing Role of Curves in Photoshop

By: Broadbeyond

Broadbeyond — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:18:20 +0000

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By: Photoshop Insider Blog By Scott Kelby » Blog Archive » Thursday News Stuff (and another Embarrassing Photo, or two)

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:37:33 +0000

[...] together), and we somehow started talking about a topic I discussed here back on March 6th (here’s that link) about The Diminishing use of Curves in Photoshop for color correction (thanks to Camera Raw). I [...]

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:49:01 +0000

As an amature and hobbist photographer, I use curves as part of my standard workflow.

By: Lucia

Lucia — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:29:46 +0000

What you wrote about the use of the curve tool I could have written myself. I just can’t seem to come up with a time frame when I actually slowed down in my use f curves. I do think I rely on Camera RAW a lot, and much post process is done in lightroom, or PS through Camera RAW, either way….I will always use curves tool ‘now and then’, but the use has significantly dropped.
Great subject,
Lucia

By: Spend less time behind your computer « Outofnapkins

Spend less time behind your computer « Outofnapkins — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:34:37 +0000

[...] how to use it’s features. A couple of weeks ago Scott Kelby posted on his blog – Photshop Insider – that he rarely uses curves in photoshop anymore because he does almost all of his color correcting [...]

By: osselin

osselin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:53:33 +0000

Scott, do you realize that you are ignoring the very important role of LAB curves in color correction? I use them all the time with my pictures.

By: Andrea Hughes

Andrea Hughes — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:02:09 +0000

Hi..thanks for posting Scott. I started using curves (thanks to you!) and have loved it!! Although..I just purchased lightroom2 and I got your book on how to use this monster. I hope to get back to you on my thoughts post LIGHTROOM experience!
Thanks!
Andrea

By: Adam C

Adam C — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:59:00 +0000

Since the advent of Shadow/Highlight, I have found myself relying on curves less and less to be able to bring out shadow detail in my photos.

By: Taryn Kaiser

Taryn Kaiser — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:10:21 +0000

I’m a photography/designer. It’s funny, because I actually use Curves a lot. I shoot RAW but I do not have Lightroom… I do a lot of post-production in Photoshop, so Curves is my very good friend.

By: Benny Profane

Benny Profane — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:16:06 +0000

Hey Scott, just wonderin’…….

Have you ever done professional retouching? I don’t mean cheezy portrait work for Mom And Pop down the street, I mean real retouching. You, or anybody here ever done that?

If you do, or did, could we have some advice or talk for that kind of work, instead of this innocuous stuff.

By: Kirk Nelson

Kirk Nelson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:39:51 +0000

I use curves almost every day. But know what I DON’T use? Lightroom or Camera Raw. But then again, I’m not a photographer. I’m a graphics guy. So I’m using curves to create enhanced lighting on my bevels, or tweak the appearance of the clouds filter, or adjust the color in a stock pic I’m using. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense for me to do those things in Lightroom when I’m creating the graphics in Photoshop.

By: Rory Mole

Rory Mole — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:37:06 +0000

Hi there Scott, I haven’t actually read through all the comments above mine, but here goes for my small contribution concerning the use of curves.

I have recently begun to use more of curves than in the past, but not for colour correction, but for dodging and burning. I found that using the lighten or darken feature in the presets, helps to do a very good dodge and burn on my images and I use that more than other methods.