 Hello everyone welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop 2022 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to take a dark photo like this one a stock image and make it beautiful make it nice and bright using only one function the curves function. Let me show you how I did it. I'm going to delete this and start from scratch. Okay in the layers panel we've got our image loaded up. The first step is you want to go to this half circle down here and click on curves. When you do that it's going to load up the curves under the properties section here. Now if you need to make this bigger or smaller go ahead. I just want to be able to see the top and the bottom of this curves. The next step is making sure you're still selected on the RGB. I'm going to add a point to the middle here. I'm just going to hover over it and see the crosshairs and you'll see that points been added. Now this means we're working on the mid tones and I'm just going to pull this up like this and by doing just that alone we've gone ahead and taken a dark image and made it bright. Let's take a look at the original now let's take it the reshot. Now if you want to mess around with it go right ahead you can add another point and then of course go ahead and you know adjust this as you see fit but that is really the gist of it. If you want to change the color for example and you want to take the blues a little bit brighter you can click on RGB and then go down to the blue channel for example and then watch this. I'm going to add a point in the middle here. I'm going to pull that up and you'll see that the blues getting a little bit brighter and it's getting a little bit yeah it's just getting a little more poppy. So and then I go up to the top here up to the highlights and I can pull this to the left and then basically we can go ahead and adjust the color blues so it's brighter. So this is the original shot this is it that's all there is to it for curves guys thanks for watching ton more stuff coming up stay tuned.