Creative Uses of the New Curves Filter in Photo RAW
- ON1 Photo RAW
- 51:31
- Beginner
In this video, we’ll explore the new Curves filter in ON1 Photo RAW 2023.5. It’s a highly versatile tool that will let you effortlessly enhance your images in ways you might not know. From refining contrast to achieving a compelling matte effect, we’ll guide you through several practical techniques for using curves. We’ll also unveil the art of color toning and master the skill of selective brightness adjustments to make your images stand out.
00:00 Intro
00:35 How the Tone Curve works
09:13 Creating Contrast
14:06 Brightening Specific Tones
18:00 Selectively Applying
23:46 Creating Fades and Mattes
29:05 Recovering Whites
32:02 Color Toning
38:41 Blending Modes
46:20 Converting to a Negative and BW
24 Comments
Bernd PalmerJune 9, 2023
Thanks Dylan, very interesting.
Even though I have used most of these effects to some extent, I’m still happy to learn more ways of using them.
Fred FlettJune 9, 2023
Nice video. Especially like the blending options but would like to see a palette of colors beyond the RGB selection – ala HSL category that could be used with the new curve addition. This could enhance ON1 Photo Raw in its ability to enhance color management. ON1 Photo Raw has mastered tone management but lags a bit in its ability to handle color in the same way…..just an opinion.
Peter ByeJune 9, 2023
Dylan, These enhancements and your tips seem great. One of my favorite filters is Dynamic Contrast. Given what you showed about adding contrast with the Curves filter, how does this complement or reduce the utility of Dynamic Contrast? Thanks.
Dylan KoteckiJune 16, 2023
Thanks for watching Peter!
Dynamic Contrast is targeting smaller areas of contrast – think texture – where as curves is more for global or general contrast within the image.
Brian LawsonJune 9, 2023
In the section on Color Toning remember that that the opposite of RGBW is CMYK. Removing red adds cyan, and so on. This is a handy way to visualize it:
RGBW
CMYK
Dylan KoteckiJune 16, 2023
Thanks for the tip Brian – that’s incredibly helpful!
Mark WiedornJune 10, 2023
Good useful ideas, well presented
Martial FournierJune 10, 2023
Best video. Thanks a lot, Dylan.
Ken LewtonJune 10, 2023
Dylan…Thank you! Great tips on a subject that’s a bit confusing. I will be using the curves much more often.
John KoskiJune 10, 2023
Thanks Dylan, this lesson really helped my understanding of the curves filter and how I can use it in my editing process.
James WhyteJune 11, 2023
Brilliant Dylan, the lessons really assisted me to understand the curves filter much more and how it can assist my overall editing post production(s).
Antonio StracqualursiJune 11, 2023
Ciao. Grazie delle spiegazioni e degli insegnamenti. Non nascondo che mi ha un poco “spiazzato”: tanta roba e tanta potenza !!!! Quello che al momento ho apprezzato di più (ma solo perchè ne avevo bisogno e non conoscevo il metodo !) è l’ applicazione delle Curve in sole alcune parti della foto! Grazie. Ciao
Antonio
Beverly FahnhorstJune 11, 2023
Dylan, Great video! All your videos are really helpful in helping me appreciate ON1 Photo!
Jean-Jacques SUSSELJune 12, 2023
I thought that the blend mode opposite to “Luminosity” was “Color” ?
Dylan KoteckiJune 16, 2023
The color blend mode will leave the hue of the blend layer (in this case the Effects or Filters) but won’t incorporate the saturation. Play around with it to see the difference – color isn’t as strong when it comes to the preservation of color in the image where as saturation maintains all/most color that is created.
Cheers,
Dylan
WernerJune 12, 2023
Thank you Dylan,
great work and instruction
you are here when community needs,
with the right themes:-)
Terry BarberJune 12, 2023
Thank you Dylan,
Excellent demonstration of curves filters. Is there a reason you do not set the black and white point first or am I missing something?
Dylan KoteckiJune 16, 2023
Thanks for watching Terry! No reason for not – just didn’t want to add too many instructions on top of one another – that’s a great idea tho and the curve filter is excellent for it.
Dylan
Mark PattisonJune 13, 2023
Thanks Dylan. Appreciate the simple, straight forward explanations and real world application of the curve filter. I was not using it to its full potential but will be from now on.
ON1 CustomerJune 15, 2023
Can you use the tone curve to give the whole image a yellow cast ? or is that better using the other effects ? or are you just able to play with the RGB channels.
Dylan KoteckiJune 16, 2023
I would probably use the Photo Filter for giving the image a yellow color cast as it would be easier to control the cast and finding yellow would be much faster than going through and removing certain channels to include it.
Dylan KoteckiJune 16, 2023
Thanks everyone for watching 🙂 have fun playing with the Curves filter it’s a beast of a tool!
Cheers,
Dylan
George QuittnerJune 17, 2023
Dylan, great video on a very powerful and useful tool in editing photos. It’s now part of my editing workflow.
Robert FeliceJuly 16, 2023
Wow. The tip about using masking with the Curves Filter was fabulous. I never would have thought to combine those two features. Thank you!
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