Under PSE it's found under Enhance -> Adjust Lighting -> Levels
Under PS it's found under Image -> Adjustments -> Levels (the very first
entry) Levels is likely the first entry in Adjustments since it's
probably the first thing that should be adjusted on any image.
See the PS/PSE help files for an explanation of usage.
While it's not quite the same, FastStone has an Enhance Color menu entry
which allows changing gamma, saturation and brightness plus others.
Fiddling with those will effect the image similarly to Levels. What's
missing it the ability to set black and white points (the extremes of
the histogram) One can do this in a roundabout way in ACR by using a
combination of exposure, recovery, fill light, blacks, brightness and
contrast. (those sliders that are right up front just as levels is
right up front)
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> Chuck wrote
>
>> They respond well to a
>>> simple adjustment of the black point in levels.
>
> What program has the controls you refer to, Chuck?
>
> It's morning here, and soon I'm going out for much of the day. Maybe tonight
> I will upload some of the worst of the uncorrected images, so you can see
> what I started with.
>
> Remember, I was walking around nearly non-stop, and took at least 60
> images in 40 minutes. A LOT of images for me. I did not stop at any point
> and "chimp" what I had just taken, except twice to show the two stall-holders
> the shots I had just taken of them with their permission (having explained
> about this group, etc).
>
>>From my simple perspective, using FastStone, loss of some intensity of
> black was a small price to pay for making the whole image overall, more
> "legible".
>
> Brian Swale.
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