TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Intermediate

4 min

Unlock the power of Curves

Learn how to apply precise adjustments to brightness, contrast, and color with one of Lightroom’s most powerful tools.

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What you learned

Level up your Lightroom editing skills

While the sliders in the Light panel let you apply modifications to general tonal areas in an image, the Curve panel provides more control and lets you target very specific tonal regions with greater precision, using either the parametric or point curve. The targeted adjustment tool lets you drag directly on a tone in the image to apply an adjustment. Additionally, you can work with the individual RGB (red, green, blue) curves to apply adjustments for color correction, or to create stylized color effects.


Instruction and photography by

Kenneth Hines Jr.

July 14, 2025

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