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Step Five:
If you're not comfortable with adjusting
the Point curve, try the Parametric curve,
which lets you craft your curve using slid-
ers that adjust the curve for you. Click on
the Parametric tab, and you'll see four
sliders, which control the four different
areas of the curve, but before you start
“sliding,” know that the adjustments you
make here are added to anything you did
in the Point tab (if you did anything there
first—I reset the Point tab's Curve pop-
up menu to Linear here).
Step Six:
The Highlights slider controls the high-
lights area of the curve (the top of the
curve), and dragging it to the right arcs
the curve upward, making the highlights
brighter. Right below that is the Lights
slider, which covers the next lower range
of tones (the area between the midtones
and the highlights). Dragging this slider
to the right makes this part of the curve
steeper, and increases the upper mid-
tones. The Darks and Shadows sliders do
pretty much the same thing for the lower
midtones and deep shadow areas. But
remember, dragging to the right opens
up those areas, so to create contrast,
you'd drag both of those to the left in-
stead. Here, to create some really punchy
contrast, I dragged both the Highlights
and Lights sliders to the right, and the
Darks and Shadows sliders to the left.
 
 
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