How do I "lighten" up my photos?

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 13 Dec 2012 2:07 pm

I'm having a problem with some photos I post as they're too dark. On my old computer when I had a dark photo I'd just right click on the picture and a box would come up with options and I'd click on "edit"... Then the screen would have a bunch of options at the top and one of them would be to make the picture darker or lighter. My new computer with Windows 7 doesn't have that. If I click on the edit function it comes up but there's no place to darken or lighten a photo. I can resize it, change some colors and some other things but no way to lighten up the shots.. Anyone know a way to do that?........Thanks, JH in Va.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 13 Dec 2012 3:19 pm

Irfanview is free and easy for that kind of thing.

Chris Dorch · Post by **Chris Dorch** » 16 Dec 2012 7:49 am

Windows default picture editing software was Paint..

Start>mspaint in the run line.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 16 Dec 2012 7:59 am

The free google Picasa has some editing capabilites. Google also has an on-line picture editor.

I've tried Irfanview and could never really do anything with it.