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In ACDSee Pro Photo Manager 3, the Shadows and Highlights tool has changed its name to Lighting. In

Lighting, the average brightness of a pixel and its surrounding pixels is called a tone level. You can brighten

tone levels in an image that are too dark, and darken tone levels that are too bright. An example would be a

photo of a person silhouetted against a bright background like snow. Most photos taken on a dull day, or with

ash, or scenes with back lighting can be improved in various ways with ne adjustments using the Lighting

tool. This tutorial teaches you how to make quick adjustments using the Auto button rst and then make ner

adjustments directly on the image.

Click + to open the Lighting group.

From the Mode drop-down list, select

Advanced.

Select an image in Manage mode and then click Process.

ACDSee Pro 3 tutorials: Making quick adjustments with the Lighting tool

Key concepts

Making quick adjustments

Opening an image

Automatically adjust the

image

Adjusting on the image

Summary of content (5 pages)

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ACDSee Pro 3 tutorials: Making quick adjustments with the Lighting tool Opening an image Automatically adjust the image Adjusting on the image In ACDSee Pro Photo Manager 3, the Shadows and Highlights tool has changed its name to Lighting. In Lighting, the average brightness of a pixel and its surrounding pixels is called a tone level. You can brighten tone levels in an image that are too dark, and darken tone levels that are too bright.
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ACDSee Pro 3 tutorials: Making quick adjustments with the Lighting tool Opening an image Automatically adjust the image Adjusting on the image Making quick adjustments Key concepts Click Auto to automatically adjust the tone levels. The dark and bright areas of the photo are automatically adjusted. In the above photo, details are now a bit more visible in the dark areas.
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ACDSee Pro 3 tutorials: Making quick adjustments with the Lighting tool Opening an image Automatically adjust the image Place your cursor over the area of the image you want to brighten or darken. Your cursor becomes a double-pointed arrow. Left-click and drag the cursor up or down to adjust the amount of brightening applied. Right-click and drag the cursor up or down to adjust the amount of darkening.
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ACDSee Pro 3 tutorials: Making quick adjustments with the Lighting tool You can also make quick adjustments by doing the following: • Scroll mouse wheel up or down on the image: Increases or decreases the amount of brightening applied at that tone level in the image. Both the image and the graph show the changes. Darkening can be applied similarly, by holding down the SHIFT key and scrolling the mouse wheel.
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ACDSee Pro 3 tutorials: Making quick adjustments with the Lighting tool Opening an image Check to see if you learned these key concepts: »» Tone level is the average brightness of a pixel and its surrounding pixels. Automatically adjust the image »» Use the Lighting tool to adjust the bright and dark tone levels in your image. Adjusting on the image »» Use the Auto button and make adjustments on the image to correct your image in Advanced mode.