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Making General Adjustments

In the General group, you can make global adjustments to your image. You can save your settings as a preset for future use.

To Adjust Your Image in General:

  1. In Develop mode, select the Tune tab.

  2. In the General group, make adjustments as described below:

    General Options

    Treatment:

    Select Color or Black & White mode.

    Exposure:

    Drag the slider to the right to increase exposure, or drag to the left to decrease exposure. One eV is equivalent to one stop of exposure change.

    Highlight Recovery:

    Drag the slider to the right to recover detail in overexposed areas of the image.

    Fill Light:

    Drag the slider to the right to add light to the darkest areas of the image.

    Contrast:

    Drag the slider to the right to increase contrast or to the left to decrease contrast.

    Vibrance:

    Drag the slider to the right to increase vibrance or to the left to decrease vibrance. Increasing the vibrance does not affect skin tone in an image.

    Clarity:

    Drag the slider to the right to increase clarity or to the left to decrease clarity.

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