Curves adjustments are one of the key tools in photo editing, and Lightroom offers three ways of making curves adjustments. What’s more, the curves tools look different in Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC. Complicated? Not once it’s explained…
Lights
The does not refer to 'lights' as in 'lighting', but 'lights' as in tonal adjustments to images. Most photographers are used to talking about 'shadows', 'midtones' and 'highlights', but Adobe's tone curve adjustments split image tones into four quadrants not three – 'shadows', 'darks', 'lights' and 'highlights'. In this context, 'lights' can be thought of as 'bright midtones'.