Corel PaintShop Pro Help | Darkening images

Darkening images

Sometimes photos have too much lighting from the background, which essentially washes out the entire image. A similar problem involves photos with too much flash on the subject. You can darken the bright, overexposed areas of a photo.

To darken a photo

Edit workspace

1

Choose Adjust

Backlighting.

2

Type or set a value from 0 to 100 in the Strength control to determine how much to darken the lighter areas.

3

Type or set a value in the Saturation control to determine the overall saturation of the photo’s colors.

Values less than 0 reduce saturation; values greater than 0 increase saturation.

4

If a photo has areas that are too light as well as areas that are too dark, choose Adjust Fill Flash, and then choose Adjust Backlighting.

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