Essential tools to save your photo

Have you ever captured a beautiful moment, but the photo turned out too dark? 

Introducing, Levels. The Levels tool adjusts brightness levels through 3 components: Image shadows, Midtones and Highlights. This allows you to edit the colour balance and tonal range of an image.

Adapted from: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/levels-adjustment.html

So how do I use the Levels tool:

1. As you can see, this image is too dark. 

2. Select the tool

3. The image histogram is shown.

4. Sliding the Midtones and Highlights brightens the image.

 5. You can see that the Levels tool provides you with a lot more control in adjusting your image tones.

6. Here is a comparison between a general increase in Brightness and an adjust using the Levels tool.

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