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The Light Tool in the Essentials group adjusts the fundamentals for your photo. Often, the AI tools like Enhance AI take care of the basics of exposure, highlights, and shadows. Yet there are controls in the Light tool you should know about because they can and do accent your images with more refinement.

Smart Contrast is a slider you should always visit, especially for landscape photos. I’ll also share how to access the histogram and use it to fine-tune your black and white points.

Go deeper into the Light tool. Watch Part 2 and learn Curves.

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