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Adjusting Image Brightness, Contrast, Highlights and Shadows
When you click on the Brightness/Contrast tab from the Color Adjustment panel a series of slide bars appear. Adjust the associated tones by dragging the slider in one of the bars to the left or the right.
Using the Brightness Bar
This setting determines the overall intensity level (gray level) of an image. Moving the slider on the scroll bar to the right increases the brightness. Moving it to the left decreases the brightness. The default setting is zero 0. The maximum brightness setting is 100, the minimum setting is
Using the Contrast Bar
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