looking back at some of your older (6 mo) stuff - and this is a great one. The best part is that this info is applicable to so many different software packages, not just Neo. Very helpful - thank you.

Jim, very helpful. I would also like to throw in a vote for a video on split toning. I always find your illustrations very helpful. Thanks.

That was one of the best descriptions of the curves tool I’ve ever seen or heard. Thanks so much for that, Jim. Greatly Appreciated.

G'day Jim If I can remember correctly, photoshop in it's early years (35+ years ago), curves was probably the only tool that was available. I used curves a lot back then, but gradually I migrated to exposure tools. You brought back memories to me. Havagooday Greg

Jim, thanks to be so faithful with us! Very few do that!

Many thanks, Jim, for another highly useful tutorial! A great refresher for me :)

Looking forward to the deep dive curves Vid also Jim

Excellently explained. Now that you can use the curves tool in Luminar NEO multiple times and in conjunction with masks it becomes even more powerful. It is really worthwhile to become familiar with this tool.

Thanks Jim. This was something I always wanted to understand, but was too afraid to ask!👐👍

Hi Jim, Seasons Greetings and thanks for the excellent and thorough explanation of curves, Joe

Great video again and by the your photo in Iceland is awsome.

Great tutorial on a seldom used tool, but very effective one. Thank you.

Thanks, Jim. Looking forward to making Curves part of my NEO workflow...

Jim great video on using the histogram. Where I get in trouble is when I try to do too much and can’t figure how to undo it and reset or back out of the changes. Your explanation helped a lot and I will watch again while making my adjustments. Like you talked about you don’t try to fix it all in the histogram and I need to know / learn when to stop. Subscribed and like your videos a lot.

Thanks for straightening me out Jim as sometimes this feature has driven me around the bend :)

Great tutorial Jim. I've always been unsure how to use curves, so have ignored it. This is a big help. Split toning tutorial; yes please.

Brilliant!!! Yes please more curve videos would be GREAT!! THANK YOU

Excellent explanation! Thanks! Now I know more about curves!

Excellent video as usual. Yes, please produce a video on split toning.

Very good, i did learn about curves i started to use more after i saw your videos, greetings from Portugal keep making stuff about luminar neo.

Thanks, just what I needed. Love Neo .... (even in beta)

Hi Jim, thanks for the tutorial, I have decided to pull the trigger and get neo from this video alone. A video on split toning would be amazing. Liked and subbed and looking forward to more. Thanks👍 Edit: found it, cheers.

Thank you so much Jim, that really cleared things up for me. Super video. Have a great weekend. :)

Excellent tutorial on curves!

Great video which I found super helpful as a relative novice to photo editing. I do find I have to watch your videos a few times as you speak very fast and cover a lot of ground in every video. Keep up the excellent content though Jim as I'm learning lots quickly with your help!

This is great. Thank you for the time you have invested in educating all of us. Focusing on one tool within the app is so helpful.

First things first, I would love to see a beginners guide to split toning. And thanks so much for the Curves tutorial, I use the Curves tool already, but I picked up a few things from your video that I want to try on my next edit. Great video Jim, and thanks for sharing,

Thanks so much. Well done.👍 Split toning sounds interesting..

Many thanks for this Jim and a good introduction . Clearly a powerful tool and needs practice to get a real feel for it.

Excellent tutoriel.Thank you very much. I

I have watched your videos on the curves tool over the last few years - and every time I gain a little more understanding. My first exposure to curves was several years ago in a Photoshop class at the local community college. That instructor took a quite different approach. He mentioned the color curves but focused on the gray curve and he started out bu moving the bottom sliders toward the center to eliminate the portions of the curve that were down near the access. He indicated that he did this to eliminate areas that were blown out or black. He then used the anchor points to make further adjustments. That approach seemed to work on the examples he used in class - but any real world pictures I had never quite worked out real well. Bottom line, I guess curves is really as you say a "feel" tool - and it takes a lot of playing with it to truly get comfortable with it.

Thanks Jim!

Thank you for this! I was really weak on curves and how to make the best use of them! Truly appreciate you putting all this together!

Nice. Thanks Jim

Thank You really helps to understand

Jim , you have a way of explaining the formerly (at least to me) inexplicable. Thank you for this video on curves.

That was great Jim. What I picked up from this is that the anchoring pts actually work as masking would. So much to learn but with your help, I think we'll get there. Thanks again.

Thank you, Jim. Very good discussion about curves.

Thank you for your clear explanation Jim and certainly worth experimenting with this powerful section of Neo.

Thanks Jim

Another great tutorial Jim. Thanks

Thank you so much Jim for this Curves video, absolutely awesome! The Curves tab was always a bit of a mystery to me but after watching this video….I’ll be using it a lot more! Thank you Jim for this and all the other great videos that you’ve done.

Cool! You might have solved my cyan problem in AuroraHDR. I just tried your curve trick on a HDR image and by playing a tiny bit with red and blue curves in the highlights, it appears to be improving the image. Imagine if Skylum would also add an eyedropper such by clicking on the image, it would add a dot at the right spot in the currently selected curve! Thank you for sharing.

Another use of curves in Neo early access is that it's the only way to see the histogram since there is no separate histogram view(yet)!

Very informative. Thanks Jim :)

Great job

Thanks for this Jim. I occasionally use tone curves but never tried with the colour channels. Off to do some testing 👍

The curves tool in windows 11 is same in all aspects as you show in tutorial. However, the histogram is missing. Hope that is coming in final rendition of NEO.

Jim, as usual, great video. Your explanation and Neo has been particularly helpful to me and curves & layers. I man real estate photography and currently use Aurora HDR and then tweak it With Luminar AI. As I learn more I realize that some of the things I'm doing now will probably change to things that are faster and improved. I'm a retired engineer and following my passion for photography.

Luminar seems to be emphasizing use develop first because they placed it first. In the past I thought they emphasized using enhance first. What is your opinion? Curves are tricky and I do check them but I also like your tip about color harmony. That seems easier than using color in curves. I do like to use the white in curves.

Wow! I never knew I could do so much with Curves, so, I have a lot of experimentation to do. Thanks, Jim, for the help in understanding how this part of NEO works. This will apply to AI as well, should I feel the need to use that, until NEO is finally released, hopefully, later this month.

A split toning tutorial would be great... thanks.

Split tone vid👍🏽

Thanks for another great vid

Hi..Yes would like a video on split colour

Great tutorial Jim. Just wondering does Neo have Blend Ranges for layers, like Affinity Photo? I'd like to see more on Split Toning.

Hi Jim, please consider one of your helpful tutorials on the use of the histogram. Thanks and Regards JB

Great overview Jim! I'll be sure to use Curves more often now. Can you do a video comparing Curves vs Color Harmony vs HSL? When you would choose one over the other, etc.? That would be really helpful!

Thank you

oh that is what curves for .. i thot it is something about advance cropping of photo, curving frame etc. never look at it.

Hi Jim, enjoy your videos!!! Hey, is there a way to mask out effects on the curves tab??? Split view video would be good too!!! Thank you for all you do! Moonpie

I cut my tone curve teeth beginning with Lightroom version 4, many years ago. But I never started editing my photo using it first as you did in this video. Are you suggesting editing first with the tone curve then making all your other edits? I do most all my basic edits first then I’ll do an “S” curve with tone. This was another great video Jim, thanks!

Great video Jim I picked up a few good tips from it, only thing is I don’t see the histogram in my curves panel in Luminar neo is there a setting to enable this?

Split toning please. Thank you.

Split tone video please. Thanks

Brilliant. Thanks, Jim. In 15 mins I've gone from not having any idea about CURVES -- I mean none! -- to understanding the basics, the possibilities AND being keen to try them.... One query; the controls work in my (latest edition) in Curves but the HISTOGRAM is not visible. Am I missing a step? Or is this a bug?

Jim, does NEO have blending options for curves? I have used luminosity blending mode in the past so only the conraast is effected and not the color.

This is scarry. After quitting all things adobe, I finally picked On1 for my central control of DAM and raw processing. Use luminar Ai for sky etc. Now comes along NEO. I copied my Photo library to an external HD drive then used it as a NEO go to for cataloging. 35307 files and could not believe how fast the catalog build was. Now discovering all that NEO (prebuild) can do and will this replace my go to On1? The jury is still out but considering just that.

Need info on split toning

Can't wait for NEO to officially launch. I've been playing around- learning the basics. Is there an order of operations to editing? I find that I adjust many things but then when I do other things like sliders and S curves it over rides previous edits especially contrast and brightness. Do you like NEO better than AI? I am also using Affinity and like it for Pano and Exposure Compensation.

POW!!erful indeed 💪🏻💥💻⚡️👍🏻

Hi Jim me again. Quick question Using Luminar Neo. I have a photo I was testing the power line removal and it worked perfect, then i had a line down the center of the road and went to remove it with the remove tool. When finished, it left a line of little bumps down the road in place of the white line. Tried it a few times and it did the same each time. I took the same photo over to Luminar AI and tried it and it worked perfect, completely remove the line with no bumps. Have you run into this problem with Luminar Neo? Thank you very much.

Haha, Zappa

Too bad you can't use a mask with Curves. That way you could just paint in the affect only to those areas that you want it.

And this did not work on Windows NEO. So I tried this in Luminar AI. OOPS! Will not reset bottom line center dot! So one has to do it manually and whatever adjustment that has been made will stay. I worked a photo in NEO and brought it into AI...nope, had huge magenta tonal effect. I know It's beta! I do have a very high end windows computer. So it may not be that. I know NEO is in beta but AI is not. I guess I am the only one with Luminar problems. I'll give them one more chance whenever they release the program, since I bought it, but have my doubts that they are capable of making it work in Windows as well as it does in MAC. I can tell that it is being designed on a MAC and Windows is an afterthought. There are other options out there but I like the work flow of Luminar. I will carefully check the other editors and probably quit Luminar for good. Thank you for your great videos!