Quote Originally Posted by mattyg1027
I only recently discovered RAW and everything you can do with it in DPP. I still have no idea what all that tone curve stuff is about... anyone have any sites that explain that stuff well?

I don't really have sites or anything. But I can see that you're better of to start in DPP for instance than Photoshop [:P]


I learned all post-processing myself by just trying and with help of others (also help from around here). The tone-curve is something I don't even use...I'm learning about it a bit at the moment. I use lightroom and just go by all the sliders and slide them to both ends and see what happens.


The tone curve is a line-graph which displays the amount of light from highlights to shadows. You can pull or push this line anywhere between both ends and this way you can precisely adjust lighting in specific light-areas. Hmm I don't know if my explaining helps a lot since I'm getting confused myself now [:P]


Search google images for tone curve and you might get an idea what to look for. But personally I think you're better off by trying a few sliders like exposure, fill-light, shadows, blacks, contrast, saturation, vibrance, shaprness etc etc


Jan