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Our online image brightener allows you to adjust contrast, highlights, and shadows to improve your dark images.

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How to brighten an image in three simple steps.

1. Upload

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2. Brighten

Use exposure controls to adjust brightness.

3. Download

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Enhance dark photos with effortless photo brightening

Your dark images just got a whole lot brighter with our free online photo brightener. Recover those hard to see details in just a few clicks. Not only can you lighten an image or photo, you can also boost the highlights, shadows, and contrast to make your image pop. Your photos will look much more professional when you a professional brightener tool.

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How do I brighten a dark image?

To lighten a dark image, upload it to Colorcinch and navigate to the Edit – Exposure tool. There, you can increase the values for Brightness, Highlights, and Shadows to lighten adjust the brightness of your image online, without changing the quality. Your photo will be brighter and better when you use our free editing tool to lighten or adjust the brightness.

I only want to lighten the darker portions of my image. How can I do that?

If you only want to recover details from the darker portions of the image, you can do so easily by adjusting the brigthness settings in the Shadows slider.

Navigate to Edit – Exposure, and look for the Shadows slider. By increasing its value, you’ll be able to brighten only the darker areas in the image while keeping the brighter portions unaffected. Your photo will be brighter and lighter, with a simple click.

Is it possible to brighten only the lighter portions of the image without altering its shadows?

If you only want to lighten portions of the image that are already light, use the Highlights slider.

Navigate to Edit – Exposure, and look for the Highlights slider. By increasing its value, you’ll be able to lighten only the lighter areas in the photo while retaining the dark areas. It’s an easy as a click!

I brightened the overall photo but now certain portions appear overexposed. Can I restore the overexposed areas?

If some details are lost in the highlights, you may be able to recover or adjust them with the help of the Highlights slider.

Navigate to Edit – Exposure, and look for the Highlights slider. By reducing its value, some details in overexposed regions may be restored.

After brightening the photo, my image appears a bit flat and lifeless. What can I do?

When you even out an exposure it sometimes leads to flat-looking colors. In such cases, boosting contrast can easily help bring those colors back to life.

Navigate to Edit – Exposure, and look for the Contrast slider. By increasing its value, you’re essentially brightening the bright regions and darkening the dark regions. So, be sure to do it tastefully as overdoing it can often lead to undesirable results.

Can I use a light overlay to brighten my image?

Using a correct overlay can sometimes not only brighten the colors, but add a creative touch to your image.

Colorcinch features hundreds of overlays and tools that can add a beautiful lighting effect to the image and make it appear brighter.

To apply an overlay, navigate to the Overlays tools menu and select from one of the following categories: Sun Flare & Haze, Light Leaks, Bokeh, or Lights. Try experimenting with different styles until you find one that you like.

Are there any downsides to over-brightening a dark image?

Over-brightening a dark image certainly has its drawbacks. Boosting brightness often leads to digital noise which appears similar to grains of sand. Some noise is acceptable, but too much noise can cause the clarity of your image to be lost.

Do I need professional skills to adjust my image?

You don’t need any graphic design skills to use our editing tools. You can edit a photo or image, save it and download it in any format. Whether you want to brighten your photo or darken image with precision, you can do it all online — for free — with Colorcinch.

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