How Do I Do That in Photoshop?

Use Curves to Add Contrast?

Go under the Image menu, under Adjustments, and choose Curves (or use the keyboard shortcut Command-M [PC: Ctrl-M]). While you can use Curves to set your overall highlights, midtones, and shadows (like we did with Levels on the previous page), today we mostly use it to add contrast (when you want more contrast than the Contrast slider in Camera Raw will give you). When the Curves dialog opens, you’ll see a graph in the center and a diagonal line—we adjust that line to create contrast. At the top of the dialog, you’ll ...