How can I lighten a dark picture without losing quality?

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How can I lighten a dark picture without losing quality?

1. Brightness/Contrast. When you need to brighten a photo the most obvious place to start is to go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast, or to select this tool on an Adjustment Layer. Brightness/Contrast is a good, simple option to use if the overall image is too dark.

What does brightness do to a photo?

Brightness is simply how dark or light a picture is. Increasing it will make the dark areas lighter and light areas lighter too. Similarly, decreasing the brightness will make light areas darker and the dark areas darker too. Changing the brightness can help improve the visibility of the darker parts of the image.

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How do you darken a light picture?

Fast & Easy

  1. Open iPhoto and click the photo you want to darken.
  2. Click “Edit” in the bottom-right corner below the photo.
  3. Click “Effects.”
  4. Click “Darken.” Each time you click the Darken button, iPhoto darkens your photo a small amount.
  5. Click the photo you want to darken and click “Edit.”
  6. Click “Adjust.”

How can I lighten my backlit photos?

Tips for editing backlit photography

  1. Increase exposure. If your photo is dark overall, the first thing to do is bump up the exposure a bit, which will lighten everything up.
  2. Decrease the highlights.
  3. Lighten up shadows.
  4. Add warmth with the temperature slider.
  5. Increase the contrast.
  6. Increase clarity.

How do I lighten a JPEG image?

Adjust the brightness of a picture

  1. Click the picture that you want to change the brightness for.
  2. Under Picture Tools, on the Format tab, in the Adjust group, click Brightness.
  3. Click the brightness percentage that you want.
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What’s the difference between brightness contrast and exposure?

In short, exposure has a heavier bias to highlight tones, while Brightness has no bias and affects all tones equally. This means that adjusting Exposure will affect highlights more in brightening or darkening an image than Brightness.

What does adjusting brightness do?

Increasing brightness of an image will light out all colors so the original light ones will become up to white. Increasing contrast on an image will increase the difference between light and dark areas so light areas will become lighter and dark areas will become darker.

How do I make a JPEG brighter?

Click the picture that you want to change the brightness for. Under Picture Tools, on the Format tab, in the Adjust group, click Brightness. Click the brightness percentage that you want.