Optimizing Images in Photoshop with Curves & Levels

Now that Curves includes the ability to adjust the black and white points in my images, is there any reason to use Levels?

Actually, Curves has always had (or at least for as long as I’ve been using PhotoShop) the ability to adjust the black and white points for your image in a manner similar to Levels. The curve always had end points that could be moved inward (or elsewhere if you wanted) to set the black or white point for the image. So you could always achieve the same effect with Curves that you could with Levels.

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