Elements Brightness And Contrast Adjustment

When you’re using Elements you’ll have the chance to change the brightness and contrast within your image. The brightness and contrast adjustment changes your image by the overall darkness and lightness of your image pixels. It’s a great way for special effects. If you just need a quick adjustment to your image this is the best way. Curves and Levels are a much better way of adjusting your image.

In elements 6 the brightness and contrast adjustments performs a linear adjustment for your new image. When you open the brightness and contrast adjustment you’ll see a slider bar, if you want to increase the brightness just move it to the right, this will increase the pixels within your image. This works for both brightness and contrast.

You might not know this but photographs are not linear in nature, so it’s best to use Curves and Levels (non linear). So if you are going to use brightness and contrast I would recommend using this on clipart text and clipart images, or just non photographic images or photos.

So to use brightness and contrast you need to open up Elements and then select your image. Your next step is to click Enhance menu, you’ll then have a drop down, you then need to select Adjust Lighting and the select Brightness/Contrast. Now make sure you have the Preview checked, this allows you to view your changes on your active image. To alter the Brightness just slide it to the right to increase the Brightness values, or just slide it to the left to decrease the Brightness values.

To alter the Contrast you need to slide the slider bar in the way. To the right increases the Contrast, to the left increases the Contrast. Once you are done just click OK.

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