Using a photo enhancer for your photographs.

Step-by-step: how to enhance photos.

Photo improvement can boost your picture quality, whether it’s for personal or professional use.

Perhaps you’ve captured a rare bird, but the lighting is too dark. Maybe you’ve found an old photo and want to improve it to meet modern standards. It’s all possible with photo enhancing.

Here are a few quick and simple ways to easily enhance your photographs:

1. Correct the exposure. Poor lighting affects the tone and visibility of an image. If it’s too dark or too light, it could be hiding important details. You can adjust the exposure with a good photo enhancer which can brighten or darken the whole image, or select key areas.
2. Blur backgrounds. If the subject of your photo is in the foreground but the backdrop proves distracting, just blur it. This should place all the focus on your subject (whether it’s a person, animal or object). Blurring the background can also make any text you’re applying to an image clearer, too.
3. Crop the image. Simply removing unwanted areas from the background or cutting down the photograph to achieve the rule of thirds can quickly enhance your image. Cropping lets you adjust the focus and positioning - ideal for portrait photography.
4. Apply contrast. Add a dramatic touch to your landscapes by increasing the contrast. This enhances the light and dark colours in an image. Be careful though - too much contrast can look unnatural and reduce the detailing and dimensions.
5. Remove unwanted objects. Sometimes, you won’t be able to crop out certain unwanted blemishes on your image – such as a mark on your camera lens, paper that blew into the shot or a distracting leaf in the foreground. Borrow pixels from other areas in the image to delete and replace in a more natural way.
6. Add effects. Depending on the purpose of your image, you may want to add text, filters and frames. For example, include your signature to avoid your image being copied without receiving credit if shared online.

Two great perks to working in {{lightroom}}.

{{lightroom}} is part of Adobe Creative Cloud. It lets you edit images at your desk or on the go. Use the software to enhance photographs and so much more. Its range of features delivers two key benefits:

1. You can get your original back. As a non-destructive photo enhancer and editor, {{lightroom}} saves your edits separately from the original image. This makes your changes completely reversible, ensuring your enhancing edits are permanent only when you want them to be. Just export your photo as a JPG or PNG file to save those edits and make them permanent.
2. Quick photo enhancing. The Auto button, powered by AI data from real photographers, is a great place to start enhancing photographs. The Auto feature quickly analyses the content of your photograph and makes adjustments to your image. With a single click, you can instantly fix exposure, colour correct and balance the tones in your photo. At the very least, this auto-enhance feature is a great starting point for adjusting your image. From there, you can tweak white balance, sharpen your image or reduce noise.

Can you change the resolution of a photo?

You can change the resolution of a photo in Photoshop. Adjusting the size or scale of a photo will automatically change its resolution, as it affects the number of pixels.

The more pixels an image has, the clearer it will appear. Cropping a photograph reduces the number of pixels and therefore the resolution quality. However, scaling a high-resolution photo down can help retain clarity at a smaller resolution.