Select a photo to open it in Detail view.
Select Edit > Light .
Drag the following slider to adjust the settings:
- Exposure: Controls the overall brightness of your photo. Move the slider left to darken the photo or right to brighten it.
- Contrast: Adjusts the difference between light and dark areas. Move the slider left to reduce contrast and right to enhance it.
- Highlights: Controls the brightness of the lighter areas in your photo. Move the slider left to darken highlights and recover details, or right to brighten highlights and reduce detail.
- Shadows: Adjusts the brightness of the darker areas in your photo. Move the slider left to deepen shadows or right to lighten them and reveal details.
- Whites: Sets the white point of the photo. Move the slider right to make more colors appear completely white.
- Blacks: Sets the black point of the photo. Move the slider left to make more colors appear completely black.
After adjusting the sliders, your changes apply immediately. Select with two fingers on the photo to view the histogram and see how your adjustments affect the tonal distribution.
For advanced tonal control, use the Point Curve option in the Light panel. The curve graph represents the tonal range of your photo, and you can select to add control points or drag existing points to fine-tune specific tonal areas.