Steve is a good guy. Smart, too.
He is a U2U lurker, but he’s a Mac-head, so he probably hardly ever pokes his head in over here.
Steve’s Curves tutorial rocks! Once I understood how Curves work, I never looked back at Brightness/Contrast and hardly ever use Levels. Seems like Curves have a place almost everything PS that I do.
I highly doubt Steve is going to write a follow-up tutorial. The last time I talked to him about it, I got the impression that his Curves tutorial was meant as a springboard for your own discoveries into the depths of Curves.
Here are a few key combo tips when using Curves:
Shift + click "locks" down the points. I guess you could call it multi-select. You can move a bunch of anchors at the same time.
Ctrl + click = delete. No more dragging them off the playing field. Anchor be gone!
Alt + click changes the grid. Pretty nice. Too bad you can’t customize the background (that would have made making my zcurves a lot easier). :sigh:
Using various combos + click didn’t seem to do anything special.
Clicking in the target picture with various combos of shift/alt/ctrl does EyeDropper/Colour Picker things. Major spiffy.
Dan Margulis wrote an article about colour correction by the numbers. You can find it at Professsional Adobe PhotoShop Articles by Dan Margulis <
http://www.ledet.com/margulis/articles.html>. It’s Chapter 2: By the Numbers. He uses CMYK, but the ideas still apply. Also, it’s in PDF format.
That’s about enough out of me.
