Adjust Image Brightness

Drop your photos in and move the sliders: the result shows up right away, and a shade over the image lets you compare before and after.

The brightness slider affects midtones the most, while true black and pure white stay in place. When you brighten a photo, highlights keep their detail, and when you darken it, shadows do too. A simple addition or multiplication, the method many editors use, blows out highlights halfway through the slider.

Auto brighten

The button picks brightness and contrast for each photo on its own: the average tone moves toward the middle, and a washed-out photo gets a bit of contrast. The chosen values appear on the sliders. In one batch, dark photos get lighter while light ones get darker. Saturation stays under your control.

Contrast and saturation

Contrast pushes lights and darks away from the middle, and at −100 the photo turns plain gray. Saturation at −100 makes the photo black and white, and at +100 the colors become twice as rich.