Change orientation of curves adjustment

I am using CS PS6. When I use a Curves adjustment layer in a .psd image the bottom left corner is black, top right is white, that's the way my mind works and all is well. When I try to do the same thing with a .jpg image the orientation is reversed. I'm sure there is some very good, albeit arcane reason for this, but it bugs me. I seem to remember from the distant past, as in ye olde PS 5, that there is some way of reversing the orientation. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
David

Thanks for your response Chris. You will probably think I've slipped a cog, but strange things are going on with this copy of PS 6. All afternoon I have been working on .jpg images, and each time I applied a Curves adjustment layer the black was at the top right, white at bottom left. I think even a colour-blind person can t.ell black from white. I had to leave it for a while, then when I re-started PS and re-opened the very same images black was at bottom left (as it has always been). But this isn't the only strange thing that's going on.
The computer is an HP Envy, Win 7 x 64 (all updated), Quad core Intel i7 Intel HD Graphics 4600, Invidia GeForce GT 750M,16GB of RAM, 4GB of video RAM. The C: is a 250GB SSD with a 1 TB USB3 drive. For the past year PS 6 has been working fine, but a couple of months ago I noticed that opening an image was taking way too long. For instance:- A cold boot of the machine takes 35 seconds. If I work on an image in Camera Raw and then click on 'Open' PS 6 used to take about 3 seconds to open the main window, and another couple of seconds to open the image. Now when I do this the main window still opens in about 3 seconds, but then nothing, no hour-glass, no indication that anything is going on. 38 seconds later the hour-glass appears 15 seconds after that the image opens. If I try to switch back to Bridge during the 38 seconds when nothing seems to be happening everything seizes up, I have to go to Task Manager to shut down both Bridge and PS. If I do nothing until the image opens I have no further problem, until I open the next one.
This afternoon I was working on 70 year-old images, there was a lot of cleaning up to do. I was stroking over scratches when suddenly the tool stopped working. 10 or 15 seconds later the Healing brush went wild, some short strokes, some long, and in parts of the image I hadn't even touched. This went on for about 20 seconds during which time I couldn't stop it or change tools. When it finally stopped I had a lot more cleaning to do than when I started.
I use Malwarebytes, the AV is up to date, no malware found, but something is going on.
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