ABSTRACT
The revised Brightness/Contrast adjustment feature If you have been image editing for some time you will know that ‘Levels’ has always been a superior option to enhance the brightness and contrast of your image rather than the Brightness/ Contrast feature. Adjusting the brightness or contrast of an image using the Brightness/Contrast adjustment used to be very destructive, e.g. if you wanted to make the shadows brighter and elected to use the Brightness/Contrast control, all of the pixels in the image were made brighter (not just the shadows) - causing the pixels that were already bright to fall off the end of the histogram and lose their detail or become white (level 255). The Brightness/Contrast adjustment feature has now been fully revised so that its behavior falls in line with the non-destructive nature of the Brightness and Contrast sliders in Adobe Camera Raw.
