Fixing Pictures in the Photo Gallery

If you need to edit a picture, you can use Windows Photo Gallery (New!) to adjust brightness, contrast, and color, and to remove red eye. You can also crop a picture. If the colors in a picture don’t look right, you can use Auto Adjust to enhance picture by changing the brightness (light), contrast (dark), color temperature, tint, or saturation. Color temperature allows you to make the colors warmer (red) or cooler (blue); tint modifies the color cast (add or remove green); and saturation changes color vividness. If you don’t like the changes made by Auto Adjust, you can use Adjust Color to change the individual color attributes.

Fix Pictures Using Windows Photo Gallery

Click the Start button, point to All Programs, and then click Windows Photo Gallery.

Select the photo you want to fix.

Click the Fix button on the toolbar.

Click Auto Adjust.

To adjust brightness and contrast, click Adjust Exposure, and then drag the sliders.

To adjust color temperature, tint, or saturation, click Adjust Color, and then drag the sliders.

To crop a picture, click Crop Picture, select a proportion or drag a selection, and move the selection, and then click Apply.

To fix red eye, click Fix Red Eye, and then drag a rectangle around the eye you want to fix.

If you don’t like the changes, click the Undo button arrow, and then select the options you want to undo or click Undo All.

When you’re done, click the Back To Gallery button.

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