Photo Curves - Color Grading

Curved Nebula

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About this app

Photo Curves is a color grading app for photos and videos. Create your own filters instead of searching through hundreds of apps with predefined presets, which you can't change. Each preset in Photo Curves is fully adjustable. You can easily create your custom presets too using flexible color grading tools. With this app you can correct, enhance or replace colors, change Hue, fix white balance or create cinematic Orange and Teal look, create 3DLUT files, resize images, adjust jpeg quality, and more.

The following tools are currently supported:

- Basic controls (brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation)
- Color wheels (shadows, midtones, highlights)
- RGB curves
- CMYK curves
- Lab curves
- Hue vs Saturation curve
- Hue vs Hue curve
- Hue vs Luma (Lightness) curve
- Luma vs Saturation curve
- Luma vs Hue curve
- Saturation vs Saturation curve
- Masking tool
- Adjustment layers

Export your color grading as 3DLUT (.cube) file or to your preset library to use it later or share with others. You can use build-in presets (filters) as is or as a starting point for your next color grading experiment. Remember - every preset is fully editable!

Preset library:

- Create your own presets or edit existing
- Export your presets to a file to share or import presets created by others
- Export presets as 3DLUT (.cube) files
- Library includes standard pre-defined presets too, including popular Orange Teal and other artistic filters

Color grading hints:

Basic Controls - brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation.

Color Wheels - mix a color into shadows, midtones, or highlights of an image.

Layer Masks - create adjustment layers and draw masks to apply color grading manipulations to a selected area of an image.

RGB curves - control red, green, and blue channels independently.

CMYK curves - control cyan, magenta, yellow, and key channels of CMYK color space.

LAB curves - manipulate brightness (L), and A, B color channels of LAB color space - unlike RGB, LAB color channels don't affect brightness component, enabling more creative color manipulations.

Hue vs Saturation curve - increase or decrease saturation of a color or a HUE range.

Hue vs Hue curve - change colors by selective HUE shift.

Hue vs Luma curve - adjust brightness of a color or a HUE range.

Luma vs Saturation curve - adjust saturation of shades, midtones, and highlights.

Luma vs Hue curve - shift HUE of shades, midtones, or highlights.

Saturation vs Saturation curve - boost unsaturated and decrease over-saturated colors to create evenly saturated HDR like images.

Ratings and reviews

Handy for graphic professionals. Precision tweaks with powerful sliders. Doesn't integrate with the Android system very well. Requires you to use their photo browser for some reason, which is clumsy and slows work flow. In fact, this is why I've decided not to buy the premium version and will stick to Lightroom instead. Fix the photo browser and I'll buy the premium version.

This is such a great app and worth the $5 for the full export, etc. The grading tools are so much easier to use than Lightroom. It even has a mask tool. It gives you most of the color grading tools we're used to in video editing. The ONE thing I would love to have is the RGB Parade, Vectorscope, Luminance curves as a pop-up so we could do image analysis. Maybe in a new release? I hate having to switch between this and another app to do that.

I use Photo Curves to process film negatives on my Android device. It works perfectly, more than enough tools to get excellent results easily and efficiently. The interface is very straightforward. The way Photo Curves exports files is really nice, too; big ol' png or jpg. I'm usually too lazy to review, but this app just works so well for what I need it for.

What's new

- Android 14 support.