Image / Adjustments: Brightness/Contrast. Why is it crap now?

Ever since we got CS3, I have to hit the "Legacy" button in the Brightness/Contrast to get decent results. I just tried again WITHOUT using the Legacy button to enhance a scan a little. I brightened it up a few notches and then dragged the contrast bar and NOTHING happened. Whats that about? I hit the Legacy button and do my adjustments and it works as it should. Am I missing something?

TwitchOSX wrote:
Curves and Levels arent that hard to screw with. I just prefer not to
use them. Besides, I don't really do anything that requires the use of
tools like that, so it's a non-issue for me.
TwitchOSX wrote:
Well, I guess I'm an amateur.
The emphasized sentences go well together; TwitchOSX wrote them, not I.
TwitchOSX wrote:
Damn my 14 years of photoshop experience!
Fourteen years of deliberately ignoring the most basic Photoshop tools!?    Maybe TwitchOSX doesn't even need Photoshop. 

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