
Conversely, you can modify foreground tones without biasing the sky. So if you pump up blue tones in the sky, the warmer colors in the foreground remain untouched. The first "game-changer" you'll see is that it's possible to change to the brightness (or color tones) of a bland sky without affecting the rest of the image. So forget everything you knew about using Lightroom Tone Curves, and watch Ryan demonstrate "the new way." Solving these shortcomings is what's so special about how Adobe has improved the tools.

Ryan explains that there have always been several limitations when using these techniques, which become obvious as you look at his examples. For example, you can grab points on the graph to easily darken a bright sky or open up shadows to reveal details that weren't readily apparent. In basic terms, the Tone Curve is a visual tool enabling you to quickly select certain points of brightness in an image and adjust them up or down. In other words, "you can now do some things that just were not possible before-and it's probably going to blow your mind." So hold on to you head and let's go. Ryan says that the power of AI in combination with Tone Curves tools presents new editing techniques for making faster and far better edits in a variety of ways. In the 15-minute tutorial below, you'll learn how to take advantage of everything the new Tone Curve tools can do. While we're not sure Adobe would agree with his specific characterization, it's clear that Lightroom's Tone Curve capabilities are now more robust than ever.

The reason for his enthusiasm is this: Adobe's recent Lightroom update included enhancements to the already powerful Tone Curve tools-with changes Ryan says are "insane." Well, the above quote from image-editing expert Ryan Breitkreutz is about as emphatic as it gets.
