Comments on: Photo Editing With Histograms: 6 Basic Settings

By: Tone Curves: Final Tips, Tricks, and Things to Avoid

Tone Curves: Final Tips, Tricks, and Things to Avoid — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:14:59 +0000

[...] Photo Editing With Histograms: 6 Basic Settings [...]

By: Cornwall Photography

Cornwall Photography — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:54:13 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial, very nicely put.

I must admit I spend hours getting my RAW images right before exporting them to Photoshop. I have saved my self hours and hours in processing time.

I used to use camera RAW as a staging post, not an editing device…. How wrong was I

Thanks again

By: Linear Curve Adjustments and Histograms

Linear Curve Adjustments and Histograms — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:32:18 +0000

[...] the previous article on the topic of Photo Editing with Histograms, I discussed the six basic adjustments found in Adobe’s raw processing engine and how those [...]

By: How Well Do You Know Your Curves?

How Well Do You Know Your Curves? — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:57:12 +0000

[...] in the process of writing the 2nd part to a previous article on Photo Editing With Histograms and it basically centers around the curves adjustment tool found in many pieces of photo editing [...]

By: Brian Auer

Brian Auer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:05:55 +0000

The curve adjustment can essentially do the same thing as the contrast slider, but it gives more control on where to apply the brightening or darkening effects. I’m working on a dedicated post just for the contrast curve adjustment tool inside ACR, and it should be out next week with more sample images and histogram comparisons.

By: Deirdre

Deirdre — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:01:22 +0000

This is really helpful. Thank you. I keep reading “recipes” on how to use these sliders, but never before any good explanations on what they do.

I have one quesition — what’s the difference between using the contrast slider and using the point curve in ACR? They seem to give different results, and I’m not sure how that works.

By: Friday Wraps « Central Illinois Photoblog

Friday Wraps « Central Illinois Photoblog — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:03:34 +0000

[...] do – or do you just like to wing it by eyeball. Brian Auer writes over on EpicEdits about Photo Editing with Histograms – and shows you real world examples of how these six controls change an image. He’s [...]

By: Andrew Boyd

Andrew Boyd — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:09:14 +0000

This is a great followup to the first post, Brian. I like your step-by-step approach.
Andrew
TheDiscerningPhotographer

By: Brian Auer

Brian Auer — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:41:20 +0000

I suppose you could do these things with curves adjustments, but they’re not really intended to be the same. I’ll be going over the tone curves adjustment found in Lightroom in the next article. And if you have PS, you have ACR (which is essentially Lightroom when it comes to the raw processor).

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:29:37 +0000

good writeup… but I think it’d be even more complete if you mentioned the fact that all of these adjustments are operations that can be done via curves in PS. I know you were discussing lightroom here as you stated… but it helps me understand these issues to always think about what the curves adjustment is for each knob you’re turning in LR.