5.2. Repair a Digital Photo

You can use Windows Live Photo Gallery to improve the look of digital photos and other images. Windows Live Photo Gallery includes a special Fix window that offers a number of tools to repair various image attributes, including the exposure, colors, and red eye.

For the exposure, Windows Live Photo Gallery can adjust both the brightness of the image and the image contrast, which is the relative difference between the lightest and darkest areas in the image.

For the color, Windows Live Photo Gallery can adjust the color temperature (the relative warmth of the colors, where cooler means bluer and hotter means redder), the tint, and the saturation (the percentage of hue in each color).

Windows Live Photo Gallery also ...

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