Hello and welcome to this episode of Denny's Tips. The tone curve is one of
the most powerful tools that every photographer or retouching needs to
learn. But I never had a major redesign and most people is still thinking it
has a steep learning curve when really it quite straight forward with a simple
redesign. Adobe and other software developers can make the tone curves much
more intuitive to the point where even if it's the first time using it, you'll
be able to get the way around it. In this video, I'll show you five improvements to
a tone curves that software developers like Adobe should make. And in the
process, we'll also be including the ways of seeing and understanding the tone curves which
will make everything so much easier. The first step software developers need to
do is make the tone curves bigger. Adjusting the tone curves requires a lot
of precision and when you look at the tone curves in Lightroom it's tiny. The
tone curves in other software are larger. It gives you more precision and makes it
easier to use. When people first use the tone curves it doesn't make any sense at
all. It's not a tool where you can just figure out how to use it at first glance
but there is a way to make that possible and here it is. Simply add a background
to teach art so with someone at the point to align and reposition said do
you know exactly what's going to happen and this is especially powerful when
you're using the red green and blue channels for example if we go to a blue
channel and add a point like this you'll automatically know that if you move it
up it will tend your image blue if you move it down hill tinted yellow this is
a simple change that would be great if it was standard in every single software
so when you're adjusting your rectory and blue tone curve what exactly are you
doing the answer is that you're adjusting the tones in the individual
channels of your photo in case you don't know a photo at middle of three channels
a red green and blue channel and when they're combined they form a color image
when the balance of these channels change for example if you make the red
channel brighter than the other two channels they'll tent your photo red if
you edit the tone curve in the RGB channel you're actually changing all
three channels at one and because you're rejecting all three channels equally
with the same tone curve there's no change the balance of your channels
which is why don't get any color tips if you want to learn more about this
there's a video about it and you can find it by clicking on date info card on
the top right corner a simple way to help people understand the concept is to
add a live preview of the channels like this and with this feature you should be
able to see how your tone curve to perfecting the channels in your photo
just it's especially useful if you're doing things by color correction when
you're editing the RGB channel and datong curve you're able to see the red
green and blue curve in the background however this isn't present once you
switch over to your individual red green or blue channel and this becomes a
problem if you want to get the tone curves to match for example if you want
to add to same as crafted red and green channel to create out cross paths this
look it's really hard to get them to match up you'll need to go back and
forth a lot to get the right setting or another way of doing this is to copy and
paste the input and output values of each point which is the law of tedious
work however if the tone curve was always designed to show the tone curves
of the individual channels and this would be an easy task but for now it is
happy to take with the traditional way of copying and pasting the input and
output values
finally the last improvement i have for adobe another software developer is to
have an option for grid snapping as mentioned earlier getting d points to
match up in the exact same position on multiple channels is really hard to do
and if you get any points off even slightly you can end up with rough
stones like this with grid snapping the points will snap to grid in your
background making it easy for anyone to create complex RGB tone curve and there
you go those are my tips for software developers out there who want to create
a better tone curve tool and if you do take on that task thank you so much for
that because I think a lot of people would find it very useful but you're not
software developer like me hopefully these tips will give you a better
understanding of how Tom curves work hey thanks for watching this video if you
can't tell already I really like to conquer but I also think that it's time
for a major redesign not only to make it more versatile for pros but to make it
easier for beginners as well let me know what you think in the comments and if
there's any other changes that you would like to see which the tone curve so I so
Matt I wish you an awesome day subscribe to my channel if you want to and I'll
see you again next week