{"id":1090,"date":"2020-01-22T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2020-01-23T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:46:24","slug":"manipulate-contrast-using-curves-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/manipulate-contrast-using-curves-in-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulate Contrast using curves in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curves is a popular tool to adjust contrast in Photoshop. When you open Curves, the graph will default to a straight diagonal line indicating 0 (black) to 255 (white). The horizontal axis of the graph represents the input values, while the vertical axis represents the output or adjusted values.  Note: to open Cures, click on <strong>Create new file or adjustment layer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"47\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1091\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Select <strong>Curves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"368\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-14.png 169w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-14-138x300.png 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, you should have<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-15-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-15-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-15-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-15-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-15.png 1452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curves control contrast by adjust the curve. For example, to reducing contrast, select and drag the darkest point upwards while select the lightest point along the graph and drag it downwards as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-17-1024x582.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-17-1024x582.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-17-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-17-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-17.png 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To increase the contract,  you may select three points and make an &#8216;S&#8217; curve as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-16-1024x517.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-16-1024x517.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-16-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-16-768x388.png 768w, https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-16.png 1596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curves is a popular tool to adjust contrast in Photoshop. When you open Curves, the graph will default to a straight diagonal line indicating 0 (black) to 255 (white). The horizontal axis of the graph represents the input values, while the vertical axis represents the output or adjusted values. Note: to open Cures, click on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/manipulate-contrast-using-curves-in-photoshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manipulate Contrast using curves in Photoshop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}