Addressing Your iPhone Photo Brightening Question
So, here's what I've gathered. The question is about brightening part of an image on an iPhone using the built-in Photos app. While the app doesn't have a direct "select and brighten" tool, we can use the existing adjustments to target specific areas, or tonal ranges, within the photo.
Let's break down how we can make adjustments to specific parts of an image.
Brightening Specific Areas (Tonal Ranges) with the Photos App
The built-in Photos app allows you to adjust the lighting in an image, affecting the entire photo or specific tonal ranges, like highlights and shadows. Here's how to use the adjustments:
- Open the Photos app and tap the photo you want to edit.
- Tap 'Edit' in the top right corner.
- Ensure the adjustments icon (dial) is selected.
- Swipe left under the photo to view the lighting adjustments you can make—for example, Exposure, Brilliance, Highlights, and Shadows.
- Tap the lighting setting you want to adjust, then drag the slider to make precise adjustments.
Here's a quick look at how these adjustments affect the image, and how they contribute to brightening specific parts:
| Adjustment | Description | How it helps with parts |
|---|---|---|
| Exposure | Brightens or darkens the entire image. | Can brighten the entire image, including all the tonal areas. |
| Brilliance | Smartly adjusts the overall brightness and contrast, often lifting shadows and toning down highlights without clipping. | This can lift shadows (darker parts) without making the bright parts overexposed. |
| Highlights | Adjusts the bright parts of the image. | Brightens the brighter areas of your photo |
| Shadows | Adjusts the dark parts of the image. | Brightens or darkens the darker areas of your photo, which can look like specific parts |
Essentially, when you adjust Highlights or Shadows, you're directly affecting the bright or dark parts of the image, essentially brightening those areas. Brilliance can also intelligently lift the darker areas.
Achieving Targeted Brightness Beyond Tonal Ranges
If you want to brighten a very specific area (like a face or object) you would need to use a third-party app with masking or brush tools. Since you asked about the built-in app, this is not addressed.
In essence, these built-in tools can brighten specific parts of the image by targeting tonal ranges, which allows for some control.
Category: Photo Editing
