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areohbee
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April 19, 2011
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P: Tone Curve As Local Adjustment

  • April 19, 2011
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Just in case we don't get all adjustments local in Lr4, I'd like to toss in the idea of a local tone-curve adjustment.

If you've never applied local tone curves, you'll be in for a real treat. If you have, then you know what I'm talking about.

Summary:
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1st choice - all adjustments locally apply-able.
2nd choice, top additions to locals, prioritized:

1. Luminance Noise Reduction - preferably with independent detail/contrast controls, but independent controls far less important for NR than for sharpening.
2. HSL
3.a. Tone Curve
3.b. Independent sharpen control settings.

Notes:
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Really hard to decide between independent sharpen controls vs. tone curve.

- We already have local sharpening (and de-sharpening/masking, and the sharpen "auto"masking), and together with local NR, would afford a fair amount of flexibility.
- And we already have basic local tone controls.

But being able to apply a curve allows much better local tone control... I mean fill & highlight recovery would be nice locals to have too, but far less needed once a local tone curve is available...

Likewise, temp & tint would be nice locals to have too, but far less needed once HSL is there...

Rob

24 replies

Inspiring
January 28, 2018


I really don't understand WHY it is not possible to make some LOCAL curves adjustements, for example, in Lightroom. We only can make some white balance, contrast, saturation... but why not the other adjustements cannot be applied with local tools like brush or radial and more... 
Inspiring
April 8, 2017
Hi Rob,

Unrelated to the subject, I noticed that your website is down and only recently I heard about your plugin NxToo. Can you post any new links to where we can download the plugin. I would really like to give it a try.

Many thanks,
A.
Benjamin Root
Legend
February 23, 2017
I'd like to bump this post into review. Localized Tone Curve would be fantastic! I can't say how many times this would have been useful directly within LR or ACR. Currently, we must go to Photoshop to do this, and many times it's the only task - thus a new PSD or Tiff for one effect.
Inspiring
January 23, 2012
Tone curce is my most favored tool in the LR Dev Module. I VERY MUCH second the need to add this cabability for local adjustment - it would make my day!