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Hey there Mike! No matter how much I try, I can’t understand Curves. I’ve played with them over the years, and I’ve tried your Curvemeister plugin, and they still make no sense to me….maybe I’m just not smart enough to understand them.
Whenever I read anything that tries to explain curves, I always stop at the point where you need to find the point on the curve. How do you find a point on the curve? Even if I could find the point, what do I do with it?
Using the wizard in your Curvemeister plugin is nice, but using it doesn’t explain what is happening. Using the sample pic in example 7 of Week 1 in Curvemeister 101, you have a white 1 on a gray background, and a gray 2 on a black background.. You give a hint that says the result will look like a backward "S". How in the world do you obtain an "S"? I assume you need to make some type of anchor points, but how do you know where to make them? Once you make them, how do you know how far to drag whatever it is that you drag? I always feel that curves is a very rough way to make adjustments and that pinpoint precision isn’t possible so I never use them. What am I missing?
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Whenever I read anything that tries to explain curves, I always stop at the point where you need to find the point on the curve. How do you find a point on the curve? Even if I could find the point, what do I do with it?
Using the wizard in your Curvemeister plugin is nice, but using it doesn’t explain what is happening. Using the sample pic in example 7 of Week 1 in Curvemeister 101, you have a white 1 on a gray background, and a gray 2 on a black background.. You give a hint that says the result will look like a backward "S". How in the world do you obtain an "S"? I assume you need to make some type of anchor points, but how do you know where to make them? Once you make them, how do you know how far to drag whatever it is that you drag? I always feel that curves is a very rough way to make adjustments and that pinpoint precision isn’t possible so I never use them. What am I missing?
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