How Often Do You Use Curves For Color Correction In Your Photoshop Workflow?

I tried Lightroom and didn't feel comfortable with it so I stopped using it. It's probably because I am running photoshop (and lightroom) on a laptop that is 9 years old and has had no upgrades in that time.

I am not a professional and consider photoshop and photography a "hobby."

I rarely if ever use it at home on my own photos but at work (I'm a graphic designer) I use it alot on on supplied and stock photos.

As a new user to Lightroom and Photoshop I'd have to say that I've never really HAD to use curves for color correction. There were just too many easy ways to do it in Lightroom that I never had to go down that path.

As a pro I use it on every image, sometimes up to 10 times per image(different areas)

I use camera raw eveytime I work with a photo, and even though that helps color correction a lot, I also check it in curves and will sometimes apply more changes here and sometimes not...but I use curves to check out if the image needs additional color correction. I often use curves to adjust the lightness
of the image.

I use curves regularly. Not necesssarily for phtos from my camera, but at work I deal with nearly monochromatic low contrast images rountinely. These require curves adjustments for subsequent complex selections within the analysis tools in photoshop. Curves is a life saver.

I use Photoshop all day, working on film scans or digital camera files, straight photography and captures of artwork. Whether the images go through Lightroom/Camera RAW or not, I use multiple curve layers, either whole image or, more often, of selected areas. It is the most powerful tool in my arsenal and it's flexibility goes so far beyond what is available in Lightroom that I couldn't imagine not using it.

In the past we use to either scan our slides or get scans from outside or from photo CDs. These images always had to be color corrected.

I haven't used curves since I started with a total camera raw work flow over 6 years ago. I teach Photoshop to photographers and I actually find it hard to remember to teach curves anymore, especially since you can adjust tifs and jpgs in ACR also. Having said all that, I took a seminar from Ben Willmore last year and he has the best way of teaching curves - the dimmer switch analogy. It made total sense at the time, but to be honest after a couple of weeks I forgot about it, as I just don't use curves in my own work.

I used to use curves all the time, as well as levels. But now that I'm using Lightroom - and, previous to getting Lightroom I was using ACR - I've found the adjustments in ACR and Lightroom to be more than enough for most images. Plus, my shooting has gotten better, so I need to adjust less anyway.

As a lefty, premi, and so called yellow canary I seem to use curves a lot more because of the scruby hand, it is right in your face and so accurate. I would miss curves and even when used in Camera Raw one seems to second guess what an improvement in Curves could make.

I just work with selective color sometimes, never curves