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Photoshop Elements: photo brighten up properly - so it goes

  • Oct 18, 2025
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A photo is too dark, you can brighten it up with Photoshop Elements easily. We will show you various methods.

Dark photo with shadows and highlights in Photoshop Elements, lighten

A method for the brightening of dark images with the adjustment of shadows and highlights is.
  1. Open the photo in Photoshop Elements.
  2. You go to "Enhance > lighting customize" the menu item "shadow/highlights".
  3. In the dialog window you can now edit the dark areas with the slider to "lighten shadows". With "lights dim" to adjust the bright areas of the image, such as the sky. You can increase the "midtone contrast" a bit in order to achieve a balanced result.
Photoshop Elements: image to brighten

Photo in Photoshop Elements to brighten by means of tone correction

Another way also leads to the brightening of the image. So the entire photo is lightened up, not the contrast, the result is as good as the previous procedure.
  1. Navigate to "Enhance > adjust lighting >" "tonal correction"
  2. Under the graph you will see three Sliders. Slide the middle Slider a bit to the left until the desired brightness is reached.
Correction of the tonal value in the Elements

Levels-multiplication for photo correction with PS Elements

The easiest method to lighten dark photos with Photoshop Elements Ellen, the levels of multiplication.
  1. To use this setting, you must first be at the top of the provider in the expert mode.
  2. Duplicate now the layer via the menu "layer -> duplicate layer". On the right edge of the screen you will see the layer window with the Original level and the copy.
  3. Select the layer copy and change the layer mode for this layer from "Normal" to "Negative multiply". As a result, the image is noticeably brighter.
  4. You can repeat steps 2 and 3 until the result meets your expectations.
Image editing with levels
You want to not the brightness of the entire image, edit, read, also, as, for example, teeth with Photoshop Elements to lighten.

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