Brightness & Contrast Pro

Brightness uniformly lightens or darkens all pixels in an image by the same amount. Exposure simulates camera exposure changes, affecting highlights and shadows differently—like opening your camera's aperture. For simple fixes, brightness works great. For more natural-looking adjustments, exposure is better.

Contrast adjusts the difference between the lightest and darkest parts of your image. Increasing contrast makes lights lighter and darks darker, creating more visual 'punch'. Decreasing contrast brings these extremes closer together, creating a softer, more muted look. Low contrast can look flat, while high contrast looks dramatic.

Saturation controls the intensity or vividness of colors in your image. At 100% (default), colors appear as captured. Increasing saturation makes colors more vibrant and intense. Decreasing it moves toward grayscale—at 0%, the image is completely black and white. Over-saturation can look unnatural, so use it carefully.

It depends on your image and goal: 'Brighten' fixes underexposed/dark photos. 'High Contrast' adds drama and punch. 'Vivid' makes colors pop for landscapes and product photos. 'Muted' creates a calm, editorial aesthetic. 'Dark & Moody' adds atmosphere for portraits and artistic shots. 'Original' resets everything.

No, never. Brightness & Contrast Pro processes all images 100% locally in your web browser using the Canvas API. Your photos never leave your device, and no data is transmitted to any server. This ensures complete privacy. The tool even works offline once the page has loaded.

Yes! Our Pro version supports bulk image upload. Drag and drop multiple images or select them all at once. Use the thumbnail gallery to switch between images. Each image can have the same or different adjustments applied, and you can download them individually.

For dark photos, try the 'Brighten' preset as a starting point. If that's not enough, manually increase Brightness to 120-150%, and slightly boost Contrast to 105-115% to prevent the image from looking washed out. You can also increase Shadows to recover dark areas without blowing out highlights.

For overexposed photos, decrease Brightness to 80-90% and increase Contrast to 110-130% to bring back definition. Reducing Highlights can help recover blown-out areas. For color photos, you might also slightly boost Saturation since bright photos often look washed out.

JPG is best for photos and sharing—it offers good quality at small file sizes. PNG is lossless but larger—use it when you need perfect quality or transparency. WebP offers the best compression with good quality—ideal for web use. The quality slider only affects JPG and WebP exports.

Yes! Use the 'Show Original / Show Edited' toggle button below the image preview. This lets you compare your adjustments against the original photo to ensure you're making improvements. It's a quick way to check if you've gone too far with your edits.

Click the 'Reset' button to restore all sliders to their default 100% values. You can also click on the 'Original' preset to reset everything. If you've made several changes and want to keep some, manually drag the specific slider back toward 100%.

Yes! When you edit your own photos using our tool, you retain full ownership of the results. There are no licensing restrictions from our side—you're free to use your edited images for any purpose including commercial projects. Just ensure you have rights to the original source images.