One of the most vital steps in editing photos is the curves tool, allowing you to quickly and effectively change the contrast range and colours of an image with ease, But editing photos one by one can be a tedious task. Today we will be teaching you how to create and save universal curves presets for editing multiple photos effectively and easily.
(Note: you may still want to edit the RGB channel first as really dark/light photos obviously wont look as good with JUST your presets)
Step 1) Test Image
Firstly we need to set up a test image to make sure what we edit will look good in a verity of different types of images. if you like you can always use ours. http://adsocio.co/images/qxtO.jpg
Step 2) Setting up your curves
Now we're going to set up our curves layer as we normally would remember to check all the images and keep it as subtle as possible to maximise the effectiveness on as many different types of images as possible. if you would like to check out the curves we used in this you can download it here http://liamfrodsham.com/nostalgia.acv
Step 3) Saving out your preset
Firstly we need to click the 
in the top right of the curves pallet and click save curves preset. It should already load the curves folder and save it as something you will remember for that curve.
Step 4)Finding/selecting
now simply make a new curves layer and use the drop down box to select your curve.
would love to see some of your results feel free to post your curve presets or just your images
and finally our finished image:
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