Which adjustment would you use to adjust how bright or dark an image is overall?

Which adjustment would you use to adjust how bright or dark an image is overall?

• A. Vibrance
• B. Levels
• C. Exposure
• D. Hue

Answer: (C)

Adjusting the overall brightness is handled by the Exposure adjustment. This control directly changes how much light is shown in the image, so increasing exposure makes the entire image lighter and decreasing exposure makes it darker, affecting shadows, midtones, and highlights across the board. Vibrance boosts color saturation without mainly changing brightness, so it won’t uniformly brighten or darken the image. Levels moves the black, midtone, and white points to rebalance tonal range, which can alter brightness but is used more for adjusting contrast and overall tonal balance. Hue shifts color tones rather than lightness, so it has little effect on how bright the image appears.

Adjusting the overall brightness is handled by the Exposure adjustment. This control directly changes how much light is shown in the image, so increasing exposure makes the entire image lighter and decreasing exposure makes it darker, affecting shadows, midtones, and highlights across the board. Vibrance boosts color saturation without mainly changing brightness, so it won’t uniformly brighten or darken the image. Levels moves the black, midtone, and white points to rebalance tonal range, which can alter brightness but is used more for adjusting contrast and overall tonal balance. Hue shifts color tones rather than lightness, so it has little effect on how bright the image appears.