curves

[janinenicole]

anyone know where i can download preset curves?

[tamlin]

There don't seem to be many preset Curves available for download - possibly because it's so easy to make your own - but here's a link to a zip file containing my collection:

http://www.waterden.net/stuff/curves.zip

Some of these were downloaded from various sites as and when I came across them, and some (like the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe and Platinum Tone curves) I made myself.

[xC4RN4G3x]

what are curves? are u talking about the shade conversion curves? like where u can change the light grey to a dark gray? i know that curves but...then why would u want preset curves? i'm confused.

[tamlin]

You can also use curves to tone images - you can set separate curves for Red, Green and Blue channels, as well as the composite RGB channel. If you then save your curve set as a preset, you can easily apply it to other images.

[xC4RN4G3x]

i already know that. but unless u adjust the brightness/contrast for an image to match that of the one where u first orginally got the curve setttings...then they wont produce the same effect because...lets say in one picture its really dark. then the red will also be really dark. so therefore if u got a light picture u would need to tone it down to apply the same curves u applied to the dark picture in order to get the same effect. if u applied the dark curve to the light picture without changing anything then i doubt u'll see much of a change unless u completly reverse the curve. some images are just light and some are dark. are they not?

[tamlin]

There's a tutorial here that explains it in more detail:

http://forums.biorust.com/tutorial-s...ing-curve.html (TUT - Photoshop: Custom Toning Curve)