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Exposure. Adjusts the overall exposure of the photo, making all of

it lighter or darker.

Highlights, Shadows. The Highlights and Shadows dials are
designed to recover lost detail in the brightest and darkest areas of

your photos, turning what once might have been unsalvageably
overexposed or underexposed photos into usable shots. For
example, suppose you’ve got a photo looking good, except that

you don’t have any detail in murky, dark areas. Move the Shadows
handle to the right, and presto! A world of detail emerges from
what used to be nearly black.

For Color, you get Tint, which adjusts the photo’s overall tint along the red-

green spectrum (for correcting skin tones and for compensating for difficult
lighting situations, like fluorescent lighting), and Warmth (adjusts the photo
along the blue-orange spectrum—a handy technique for breathing life back
into subjects who have been bleached white with a flash).

This panel also offers “Red eye” (turns devil-red eyes, caused by the
camera’s flash, black again) and “Spot fix” (paints away scratches, spots,
hairs, and other small flaws).

“Edit & Create”→ Draw

That Edit & Create button (which appears when you open a photo) harbors

some other delights. For example, if you have a touchscreen, the Draw
option lets you doodle on your photo, using your choice of three “pens”
(hold down for a choice of colors and line thicknesses) and an eraser. See
“Editing the Screenshot” for more details on this standard Windows

drawing toolbox.

“Edit & Create”→ Add 3D Effects

This option, too, lurks in the Edit & Create menu: a palette of animations
that you can lay on top of your photo or video, including falling leaves,
rising balloons, a snowy blizzard, fluttering butterflies, and so on (Figure 8-