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Many photographers now prefer working in Lightroom where you always
have access to your original le, regardless of the changes you make.
CURVES
Because the digital realm forces us to talk about issues that do not strictly
relate to lighting, we should also mention curves. We will not give detailed
information here because existing digital cameras display only histograms.
(Some cameras may display curves, however, by the time you read this.)
Curves are a postproduction tool that, on the monitor, look very much
like the lm characteristic curves we saw earlier in this chapter. ey look
quite dierent from the histogram ...