How to use Curves in Photoshop (Lesson 32)

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In this video, I showed how to use Curves in Photoshop for color adjustment (Lesson 32). I showed how you can add a Curves adjustment layer in Photoshop in the easiest and quickest way. I also showed how to add different points to draw the Curves in Photoshop. I used 2 different images to show different ways to apply it like I used Auto option as well as the manual option to define the different points on curves. I also showed the option: Click and drag in image to modify the curve.

From this lesson, you will learn how to use Curves in Photoshop for color adjustment. You will learn different automatic and manual ways of color adjustment using Curves in Photoshop. You will learn how to use different presets for Curves. You will also learn how to clip the Curves adjustment layer to any other layer below as well as reset it or delete it whenever necessary. 

This lesson, How to use Curves in Photoshop for color adjustment (Lesson 32) is in 2 versions as always. You can either watch the English or the Bangla version.

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English Subtitle:

Hello viewers! I am Rakib. In this lesson, I will show you how to use Curves in Photoshop for color adjustments. To add it quickly you can go to: Image, Adjustments and select Curves. You can also press Ctrl+M from the keyboard to get it and you will get this option and you can make the adjustments here and after adjustment you can click OK to apply the changes. But this is the destructive way of doing it and it's always a better practice to do it in an adjustment layer. The easiest way to do it is to come to this Adjustments panel and click here to add it with a single click. But if for some reason you can't get it here, the Adjustments panel, then you can, let's delete it. Then you can click here, select Curves to add it like this. It will do the same. So when we have it, you can see this diagonal line in which we will add different points and change the position to make the adjustment. Our first job is to click here and see what Photoshop can automatically do for us. Sometimes it can show you a great result which we will see in the next image but in here as you can see it is not that good to use. So we will click here to reset it and you can see in the preset, you can also get different presets here that you can use if you like. Darker or Increase Contrast or Lighter. If you like any of them then you can apply it. Let's click here to reset everything and now let's see how we can add these different points. You can left click and hold and drag up or down to make the adjustment. You can click again and define more points and make the adjustment. You can also add points in between two points and if you click here that will allow you to use an Eyedropper and click specific part of an image and you can hold the mouse button and drag up or down to make that adjustments and you will see that point is added into the Curve. You can see the preview, before and after. You can also click here to use it as a clipping mask. If there were a lot of different layers and you wanted to apply it only for this layer which is below the adjustment layer in that case, you could use it as a clipping mask as I discussed in an earlier lesson about the clipping mask. And if any time you don't like to use this Curve then you can click here to delete it. Let's see it on a different image which is here. In this image, if we add a Curve then click here, you can see how nice the automatic adjustment is! You can still define some more points to make it better. So that's before and after. So in this way, you can use Curves in Photoshop for color adjustment. So thanks for watching. Stay connected subscribing to this channel for more videos like this. See you in the next lesson.