Reply To: So what classifies a 'real' photographer?

[fstopper89]

I need to verse myself better in using curves. I usually do adjusting to color in Lightroom (luminance, saturation, and hue for each color separately) as well as white balance. Then I bring the image into Photoshop and do more, including using a variety of actions. Many of the actions have curve adjustments in them and I have a few favorites I know how they react with the images. Maybe that’s cheating a bit?