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Question: Photoshop help! Curves!? levels!? Color Balance!?
What's the difference between Curves, Levels, and color balance!? Don't they all do the same thing!? When would I use one over the other!?
Can you give me a brief description of what each one does!?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Curves: Changes the lighting with specific hues
At the bottom left corner, it may change a face skin tone to be brighter (pull up), posterize, or darker (pull down)!.
At top right corner, it may change the background to a different if you pull it up or down (down gives you red sometimes, I believe)
The centre line is changing the brightness sometimes!.

Levels: Changes the lighting if you pull the bar thing over (is that the Levels!? Can't remember; will not open CS3 while IE +iTunes is on because totally crashes shitty computer)

Color Balance: Changes (mid)tones to be warm or cool!. Same applies on the Shadows and Highlights!.

I go:
Brightness/Contrast
Color Balance
Curves

I don't use levels because I barely find it controllable!.

Most of it comes from experimenting on photos!.Www@QuestionHome@Com