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…
Targeted adjustment
The Targeted Adjustment tool in Lightroom is used to drag on areas of an image to change the brightness, hue or saturation of specific tones. Some other programs have similar tools. It's often easier to modify areas of a picture directly in this way than it is to use sliders.