Something that I learnt a couple of weeks ago in digital photo magazine was how to use “curves” to adjust photos rather than using the histogram and adjustment sliders.
So for an example, go and open your image in photoshop or elements and go to:
image> adjustments> curves.


Then you can adjust the line with your cursor to experiment with tones. The good thing about curves is that you can adjust many aspects of the image such as contrast, exposure and brightness together. You can always use on off the presets available if you want to.



So thats pretty much it on curves. Most photographers and photo editors will know about and probably use curves regularly but I thought I’d put it out there for people who might enjoy experimenting with them.
Thanks.