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Tonal Curves Missing in Lightroom CC 2017?!?

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October 23, 2017
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Hello

Anyone find the Tonal Curves or Split Toning for that matter in the new Lightroom CC (cloud version)? I've looked everywhere and cannot find it. It's sort of ironic that Adobe made the new Lightroom CC very mobile-like to try and bring back all the Instagram photographers from using one of the million mobile only editing apps but left out Curves. That's what all those photographers use to achieve the Instagram look (you know, the filmy, hazy, vintage look). If it actually is missing they need to bring it back.

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Correct answer pschefz

i don't agree....most adjustments are on the same level as in classic.....curves was just completely left out....even stranger since it is available in LR mobile?

but yes, leaving out curves has to be a joke.....just like not being able to apply settings to more then one image at a time.....

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jackieg34417238

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Hello there!

The tone curve is found under the light tab on the right side of the window next to Auto. it is the slow curve that has two segments on each end. I hope this helps!

Mohit Goyal

Community Manager

Hi All,

The Tone curve feature is added to Lightroom CC in 1.1 version.

Would recommend you to update Lightroom CC to 1.1 version via creative cloud desktop app.

New features summary for the October 2017 and later releases of Lightroom CC

Regards,

Mohit

bitm07

Inspiring

Same here, but developed to LR Classic's level or beyond, so you wouldn't need separate applications wouldn't be a disaster either.

josiahc99950179Author

Participant

Exactly this! It almost seems like you have to edit in Classic, then import to CC so you get the photos on your iPhone. Seems like a waste of time to me. Most of us want to use just one version and be able to access everything across devices (mobile, desktop, etc.).

bitm07

Inspiring

Plenty of other LR classic features missing from LR CC, the biggie for me is a history pallet, I use this numerous times on every edit. No print module is also a biggie for Lightoom CC Plan subscribers (they don't have access to PS or LR Classic to print), photomerge HDR and panoramic, snap shots, highlight and shadow clipping warnings, the new luminescence and saturation masking options are also missing. There is also no slideshow, map, book and web modules, all the options in the camera calibration panel (including process version and profile) and that's just of the top of my head.

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

There was no Book or Map in version 1. The only real change in Web was a change from XSLT galleries to Lua Galleries in V1.4 and then a switch away from Flash recently, which necessitated the addition of more galleries. In fact most of the output modules have seen little or no change and a lot of that is based on the in app metrics Adobe collect. Publish Services was a later addition.

Point curve only came later on. There were NO local adjustments in the early versions. Super basic lens correction, no post crop vignette. Print could only do Contact Sheets or basic repeated print design. Slideshow was even more basic that it is now.

As for web, there are shareable galleries that look far better than what Web offers.

There isn't going to be a two year wait for the new features, it'll be more like the additions the other CC apps have had.

I really don't get why you're not just using Classic, the app that DOES all of the stuff you're requesting. It isn't going away anytime soon. It didn't drop any features and gained a few, and lots a few pounds in the process.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

bitm07

Inspiring

SeanMcCormack wrote
I really don't get why you're not just using Classic, the app that DOES all of the stuff you're requesting. It isn't going away anytime soon. It didn't drop any features and gained a few, and lots a few pounds in the process.

I'm not requesting those features, I'm just pointing out that LR CC needs far more than just the tone curve and split toning panel's before it matches the feature set of LR CC classic. Personally I hope that never happens, a plain but functional organizer and development module is all that I require, if a history pallet, highlight and shadow clipping warnings and presets that include local adjustments are added to LR CC, it will meet my requirements. Until then I will continue to use LR CC, but not all of us have that option to fall back on.

John Waller

Community Expert

Don't expect to see the old Lightroom CC toolset in the new Lightroom CC. It's nowhere near that level of maturity yet.

See Tone Curve in the new Lightroom CC

Quote from that discussion:

There is no tone curve in Lightroom CC. Lightroom CC is a completely new editing tool that only has a fraction of the features of the old Lightroom which is now named "Lightroom Classic".

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pschefzCorrect answer

Inspiring

i don't agree....most adjustments are on the same level as in classic.....curves was just completely left out....even stranger since it is available in LR mobile?

but yes, leaving out curves has to be a joke.....just like not being able to apply settings to more then one image at a time.....

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

There's only so much that can be put into a version 1.0 program. Leaving out Curves isn't a joke, it's a choice to get the app out stable and in a reasonable time frame. Lightroom CC isn't complete by a large margin, but being a subscription app, at least there isn't a 2 year wait for new features.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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