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The Exposure/Tone tool provides a set of controls to adjust intensity of the highlights, shadows, and midtones of an image. For more information about exposure and tone settings, see the Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools topic.

To set the exposure and tone options:

1. | From the Tools menu, click Advanced.

2. | In the drop-down menu, click Exposure.

3. | To adjust the highlight and shadow levels in the image, click the the AutoLevel check box.

4. | In the Shadows field, edit the number to set the shadow level percentage. (Higher numbers increase the shadows.)

5. | In the Highlights text field, edit the number to set the highlight level percentage. (Higher numbers increase the brighness of the highlights.)

6. | To use the highlight recovery feature, drag the HR slider to the right. Dragging the HR slider activates this feature automatically.

Note: Highlight recovery restores detail to the overexposed areas of an image. Values between 25 and 50 are effective for most images; however, the effect might vary depending on the camera model and the white balance mode.

1. | To use the fill light feature, drag the Fill slider to the right to increase the amount of light in the darker areas of the image.

Note: Fill light softens the shadows in the image. Values between 0 and 1.5 are effective for most images. Note that the fill light feature makes adjustments to images based on the contrast level set in the Fill Light dialog box.

1. | To adjust the tone curve, open the Tone Curve drop-down menu and select a pre-defined tone-curve value from the list.

Note: When the tone correction is set to Camera, the curve that is built into the camera will be applied. When you set the tone curve to High, Low, Not so high, Really high, Really low, or Normal the background tone contrast curve changes. The Low settings preserve highlight detail but delivers a flatter less contrast image. High settings boost the contrast but will lose some highlight and shadow detail.

1. | To set the midtone light exposure level, drag the EV slider to the right of the center point to increase the brightness of the image and to the left to decrease the brightness of the image.

2. | To reset the exposure level to the original setting, click EV 0.

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To adjust the image exposure levels:

1. | Click the thumbnail whose image exposure levels you want to edit.

2. | From the Edit menu, click Exposure.

3. | In the drop-down menu, click the exposure stop that you want to apply to the image.

Related Topics

Understanding Basic Image Editing Tools

Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools