All these years and no one has explained this the way you have. In 15 min you gave me a masterclass in tone curve that will forever change how i edit my work, thank you for this and i am glad i found it.
one of the best explanations of this area I've listened oo. The fact I have listened to a lot means it's not easily described but this was great. Thank you
Pye u r the best instructor ever. For years I’ve been following your tutorial and courses. Boy... u r charismatic and so knowledgeable, buddy! Thanks for all the years of sharing knowledge!
I could listen to him all day long. I am confident that during that day, I would be learning something the entire time. He is so knowledgeable, creative, and an excellent teacher.
I just watched the video and for the first time in 2 months, I'm finally about to play around with the curves but this time with a little knowledge. Thank you, Pye🤠✌️
So I've paid for online tuition for Lightroom and Photoshop and it was only when I watched this video right here that I actually understood it. This is legit a fantastic overview.
Shift clicking on the point curve to restrain control to up and down movement is already worth the price of admission. Smashed (to use that silly Gen Z term for "clicked") the Like button after you showed us that. Thanks Pye!
I knew the tone curve at the most basic level but this video just elevated it’s possibilities for me. I’m so excited to use it to its full potential now. Thank you!
This was possibly the best Lightroom tutorial video I've watched. And I've watched A LOT of them. Thank you, Pye, for helping me to take my editing to the next level in just 16 minutes.
Dude this is so insightful, thak you so much for this video, I'm so glad I clicked it because I was tired of seeing others videos about the tone curve and just ended up being a S curve tutorial, now I understand better the concept as a whole
Pye, I've been an amateur photographer for many years now, progressing slowly but steadily in my understanding how things work. I followed your Dodge & Burn tutorial yesterday and your Tone Curve tutorial right now. It was like two revelations! I understood so much in so little time, it's mind-blowing. Thank you so much. And: Congratultations! I have rarely found someone who is NOT ONLY KNOWLEDGEABLE BUT CAN ALSO EXPLAIN THINGS as well as you do. I know what I'm talking about. I've been an instructor and facilitator myself for three decades. - Pye, please, keep going like you do. I will certainly want to follow you and hear more from you! - Norbert from Germany
🤯 Yes. YES YES YES! What I love so much about this is the parametric curve explanation AND ALSO the comment about how you build your presets. I want more of this! I’m not into selling presets but I make my own to improve/quicken my workflow. Paving my own preset path since there isn’t much out there for sports. (Also, i spend all my money on gear 😅)
What you made with this tutorial is to throw the fear out of me to use the tonal curves. Thank you very much. And your vocal tone surprisingly complemented the tonality of this tutorial 🙂. Subscribed and will check out all other videos in your channel now. Stay blessed!
Many people might know the subject, but only a few can teach like you can. This was by far the most clear tutorial on RGB tone curves. Also, your voice is so soothing and easy to follow! Where can I learn more on this topic and other layers/aspects of Lightroom from you? Also, thank you!! 😊
This was such a great video. I have been playing with these curves, but I only end up messing up my photo which makes me go back to the sliders. Thank you for this video.
Wow! This was awesome. I am excited to go actually try the tone curve now where I played with it one time and had no clue what I was doing. I mean I kind of did but it seemed so much more daunting than this. Thank you for this.
That was a beautiful tutorial, just 1 question, when i work in my latest lightroom point curve and parametric curve are independent(not able to refine as you explain in the video- it looks like a untouched curve, do we have to link it or something) hope i am clear to you?
Nicely done Pye I like how you broke it down to Contrast and Exposure. That helps remove the aura of complexity with this tool. Still working on how to 'tweak' the image using the Parametric curve. Not sure if I'm a fan of the softening style. I think for me I need to see more side by sides to compare
Best video on the tone curve I've seen. What is the best way to learn Lightroom for someone just starting out using it? It seem like there is so much to the program.
Great video! One of the best I've ever watched on LR Curves. That said I found the background music to be very annoying...didn't add anything just got in the way.
Pye, that is an excellent overview. I had to discover these things myself in the past, too. As to the "Tone Curve", you missed a point that, IMO, is very important. The left-bottom start point of the Tone Curve and the top-right end of the Tone Curve mark the "Black Point" and "White Point" IN YOUR OPINION in your photo. These points can be shifted horizontally. The shot you use in this lesson, has a little happening in about 40% of the X-axis in the Tone Curve diagram (the histogram under the line you manipulate). Imagine you shift the White Point horizontally-left to the 60% X-axis point (so it stays at the top), then you now have told LR that it can treat that X-axis point as 255 White. As a consequence, with 0% X-axis being the Black Point, you now distribute the 0..255 reach over the 60% X-axis domain. This changes your photo's representation in another way than messing with sliders of exposure/zones and contrast. In camera - I have shot metering "expose for highlights" recently, and there may be a tiny bright highlight spot in the subject driving exposure, that IMO does not need any detail at all, and I have no or almost no histogram for the top 40% X-axis - this White Point approach totally pulls such shots up from dark and moody. (Wait, but aren't you afraid to lose shadow detail? Haha, only if I shot the same camera brand as Pye. But seriously, you could. you have to build an understanding - experience - of circumstances when metering for the highlights plays against you.) Back in LR. You can still apply the Y-axis shifts to the Black Point and White Point as per your demonstration too, of course. Note you can "reverse" the image processing in LR. Take a scan of a negative, shift the Black Point from 0,0 to 0,100% and the White Point from 100%,100% to 100%,0 and 'bam' you have your positive and the sliders all avail still (but they may need to be mirrored in your thinking). Compared with Capture One, Lightroom does the Black & White Points in the Tone Curve. C1 allows this and the mid grey point to be applied in the Histogram - where it should be, IMO. (I don't own C1.)
@@BornUncreative - Let's call this reciprocity instead of a catch. If software developers had been great communicators they had not chosen a programming language with a display and keyboard as dominant interface in their careers. You and I suffer the consequences.
Thanks so much for this information, Pye! You’re a great teacher, and this is extremely helpful, even for me, someone who’s trying to learn more about color grading video footage than photos or Lightroom
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Can we talk about how soothing his voice is?
Sometimes i don't even look at the video, just listen to his voice.
All these years and no one has explained this the way you have. In 15 min you gave me a masterclass in tone curve that will forever change how i edit my work, thank you for this and i am glad i found it.
Tone curve masterclass in 15mins!! Loved it!!
one of the best explanations of this area I've listened oo. The fact I have listened to a lot means it's not easily described but this was great. Thank you
Thank you Pye and Adorama! Such high-quality & free education is such a privilege to have access to
This video helped a LOT. I've been fumbling around the tone curve for years. This video finally makes sense of it for me.
This is me.
This is the best and most comprehensive tone curve tutorial I have seen.
As a new photographer this has totally demystified the tone curve for me. Thank you so much. I can see myself using it so much more now.
Pye u r the best instructor ever. For years I’ve been following your tutorial and courses. Boy... u r charismatic and so knowledgeable, buddy! Thanks for all the years of sharing knowledge!
Great information but please, please, please turn the music off on the background... So distracting for us ADD kids!
I’m not exagerating here. This is the best tutorial I’ve ever seen. Well done.
Love how you broke this down! I've seen so many videos on tone curve, it think this was the best I've seen out there!!
Wow, found this channel while searching for curves explained. Your voice and way of telling is so good! Thanks a lot!
I could listen to him all day long. I am confident that during that day, I would be learning something the entire time. He is so knowledgeable, creative, and an excellent teacher.
Appreciate it Allen!
I just watched the video and for the first time in 2 months, I'm finally about to play around with the curves but this time with a little knowledge. Thank you, Pye🤠✌️
So I've paid for online tuition for Lightroom and Photoshop and it was only when I watched this video right here that I actually understood it. This is legit a fantastic overview.
Jesus Christ! this is literally the best video on Tone Curve.
Much obliged, kind sir 😭🙌
Shift clicking on the point curve to restrain control to up and down movement is already worth the price of admission. Smashed (to use that silly Gen Z term for "clicked") the Like button after you showed us that. Thanks Pye!
This video blew my mind. I have a whole new approach to editing my work. Thank you so much for this.
This is hands down the best tone tutorial out there! Thank you so much! Things make sense now!
I knew the tone curve at the most basic level but this video just elevated it’s possibilities for me. I’m so excited to use it to its full potential now. Thank you!
This was possibly the best Lightroom tutorial video I've watched. And I've watched A LOT of them. Thank you, Pye, for helping me to take my editing to the next level in just 16 minutes.
Love your teaching style man. You do a great job explaining the subject matter.
6 years in photography, no regrets just getting to fully understand tone curves. thank you
Finally a clear explanation. So powerful.
Best explanation of the tone curve ever .. thanks alot
Dude this is so insightful, thak you so much for this video, I'm so glad I clicked it because I was tired of seeing others videos about the tone curve and just ended up being a S curve tutorial, now I understand better the concept as a whole
This is the best explanation of tone curve ever! Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Pye my man, this is amazing! I learn something ew every time you and Adorama drop a video. You guys are awesome. Thank you.
Glad you are enjoying!
So good to have every single explanation in one video. Thanks
Shift key to constrain vertical, nice easy takeaway from this tutorial, thanks.
I love you Mr. Pye. From Nigeria🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
This is something amazing. So much simplified. Thank you!!
Do you have the Lightroom tutorial series?
That's the best video about tone curve so far I have watched! Thank you :)
Pye, I've been an amateur photographer for many years now, progressing slowly but steadily in my understanding how things work. I followed your Dodge & Burn tutorial yesterday and your Tone Curve tutorial right now. It was like two revelations! I understood so much in so little time, it's mind-blowing. Thank you so much. And: Congratultations! I have rarely found someone who is NOT ONLY KNOWLEDGEABLE BUT CAN ALSO EXPLAIN THINGS as well as you do. I know what I'm talking about. I've been an instructor and facilitator myself for three decades. - Pye, please, keep going like you do. I will certainly want to follow you and hear more from you! - Norbert from Germany
this solved my confusion on tone curve... thanks man...
Simply stunning Pye as usual!
🤯 Yes. YES YES YES! What I love so much about this is the parametric curve explanation AND ALSO the comment about how you build your presets. I want more of this! I’m not into selling presets but I make my own to improve/quicken my workflow. Paving my own preset path since there isn’t much out there for sports. (Also, i spend all my money on gear 😅)
best tone curve vid i've ever seen
Thank you for such a comprehensive explanation.
U guys r so detailed..
Explain everything in details, at length.... With a soothing background music.
Education was never so stylish.
👍👍👍👍
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Haha, appreciate it!
Wonderful demonstration! Thanks!
hey Pye, you did a wonderful job with this tutorial. very clear and concise.
thank you very much
One of the best video on tone curves
Thank you for creating such an excellent valuable content. Big thanks and cheers 🥂 from India. We learn a lot from your channel
Glad to have you here!
As always, nicely explained, thanks.
Very clear tutorial. Thanks. Greetings from Mexico City.
What you made with this tutorial is to throw the fear out of me to use the tonal curves. Thank you very much. And your vocal tone surprisingly complemented the tonality of this tutorial 🙂. Subscribed and will check out all other videos in your channel now. Stay blessed!
This was a revelation, Pye, and you explained it very well. Thank you.
Been looking for years for Tone Curve tutorials - Think I've found the One and Only! Thanks a million - this was great stuff to watch!
Glad you enjoyed!
This is by far the best tutorial on tone curves!
Appreciate it!
I love your sequence , easy move from point to the next
This is an excellent explanation of the tone curve!
after 7 years of using lightroom I finally get the tone curve...thank you
Many people might know the subject, but only a few can teach like you can. This was by far the most clear tutorial on RGB tone curves. Also, your voice is so soothing and easy to follow! Where can I learn more on this topic and other layers/aspects of Lightroom from you? Also, thank you!! 😊
Beyond global adjustments what is the difference between Tone Curve and Control Grading Panel?
Excellent - the best explanation of Curves I've ever watched - and I've seen a lot of them!
Glad you enjoyed Roger!
Amazing and helpful video! Maybe a video next on colour grading feature in Lightroom!
Awesome!
I didn’t know 50% of all that was taught.
Thank you!
I love this! It helps me understand it completely now! Thank you!
Pye, You are the Guru!!! I always learn great info from your videos! Very informative, not Corney!
Probably best video about curves I have seen so far!!!
First time someone made it easy. Thanks!!!
This was such a great video. I have been playing with these curves, but I only end up messing up my photo which makes me go back to the sliders. Thank you for this video.
Best video on curves I've ever seen
This was so well presented . I have my iPad Pro with Lightroom and will certainly try out your instructions
Thank you Lawrence, enjoy!
Very clear and useful. Thank you.
Thanks for a great tutorial! You are a very good teacher!
Wow! This was awesome. I am excited to go actually try the tone curve now where I played with it one time and had no clue what I was doing. I mean I kind of did but it seemed so much more daunting than this. Thank you for this.
Thank you for this video. I was given up on Tone Curve for a while and didn't bother to play around it.
Very clear and to the point explanation! Great job! 👏🏽
Excellent video indeed. Thank you.
Excellent, very informative and helpful. Many thanks!
This was an excellent explanation and demonstration of the tone curves panel in Lightroom. Thank you :-)
That was a beautiful tutorial, just 1 question, when i work in my latest lightroom point curve and parametric curve are independent(not able to refine as you explain in the video- it looks like a untouched curve, do we have to link it or something) hope i am clear to you?
I love it just because it makes sense!
Pye I can only say it this way, Thank you Thank you Thank you for this absolute life altering curves tutorial.
Yay, so glad we hit the mark!
Nicely done Pye I like how you broke it down to Contrast and Exposure. That helps remove the aura of complexity with this tool. Still working on how to 'tweak' the image using the Parametric curve. Not sure if I'm a fan of the softening style. I think for me I need to see more side by sides to compare
I don’t know if you remember but I asked you about this in your Tik Tok Live a few weeks ago. Thank you for making such a thorough video about it!
Thank you very much for this informative tutorial :)
This was great ! Thank you .
Great teacher!!!
Do you recommend to jump straight in to tone curves before anything else?
fantastic video, thanks so much!
Best video on the tone curve I've seen. What is the best way to learn Lightroom for someone just starting out using it? It seem like there is so much to the program.
Thanks so much! Tone curve is my go-to in Photoshop, so this video was really helpful to help understand how it works in a Lightroom workflow.
Great Video! Helps a lot!
finally, i understood the CURVES :D
Thanks Pye, Now ill treat myself with a Pie
Great instruction!
Outstanding!!
Great vídeo, thanks from Portugal.
this was a fantastic video. wow
Great video! One of the best I've ever watched on LR Curves. That said I found the background music to be very annoying...didn't add anything just got in the way.
super explanation! love it!
Loved it!
Thank YOU. learnt so much today. 🙏🏻
Pye, that is an excellent overview. I had to discover these things myself in the past, too. As to the "Tone Curve", you missed a point that, IMO, is very important.
The left-bottom start point of the Tone Curve and the top-right end of the Tone Curve mark the "Black Point" and "White Point" IN YOUR OPINION in your photo.
These points can be shifted horizontally. The shot you use in this lesson, has a little happening in about 40% of the X-axis in the Tone Curve diagram (the histogram under the line you manipulate). Imagine you shift the White Point horizontally-left to the 60% X-axis point (so it stays at the top), then you now have told LR that it can treat that X-axis point as 255 White. As a consequence, with 0% X-axis being the Black Point, you now distribute the 0..255 reach over the 60% X-axis domain. This changes your photo's representation in another way than messing with sliders of exposure/zones and contrast.
In camera - I have shot metering "expose for highlights" recently, and there may be a tiny bright highlight spot in the subject driving exposure, that IMO does not need any detail at all, and I have no or almost no histogram for the top 40% X-axis - this White Point approach totally pulls such shots up from dark and moody. (Wait, but aren't you afraid to lose shadow detail? Haha, only if I shot the same camera brand as Pye. But seriously, you could. you have to build an understanding - experience - of circumstances when metering for the highlights plays against you.)
Back in LR. You can still apply the Y-axis shifts to the Black Point and White Point as per your demonstration too, of course.
Note you can "reverse" the image processing in LR. Take a scan of a negative, shift the Black Point from 0,0 to 0,100% and the White Point from 100%,100% to 100%,0 and 'bam' you have your positive and the sliders all avail still (but they may need to be mirrored in your thinking).
Compared with Capture One, Lightroom does the Black & White Points in the Tone Curve. C1 allows this and the mid grey point to be applied in the Histogram - where it should be, IMO. (I don't own C1.)
You are totally right. Quite advanced, but I did miss this piece! Great catch.
@@BornUncreative - Let's call this reciprocity instead of a catch. If software developers had been great communicators they had not chosen a programming language with a display and keyboard as dominant interface in their careers. You and I suffer the consequences.
Incredible video.
Thank you for the information
Thanks so much for this information, Pye! You’re a great teacher, and this is extremely helpful, even for me, someone who’s trying to learn more about color grading video footage than photos or Lightroom
Great inputs!