Using the Fill Flash Filter

One of the more common problems in photography involves lighting. Photos taken in bright light often have little detail in the shadow areas since the camera is attempting to not overexpose the brighter areas. The Fill Flash filter allows you to lighten the darker, underexposed areas of a photo. If your photo's background is too dark, or you feel there's too much difference between the photo's light and dark areas, this filter is a good choice to help correct that problem.

Accessing and Using the Filter

  1. Choose Adjust > Photo Fix > Fill Flash.

  2. Use the Strength value to determine how much the darker areas will be lightened.

Using Fill Flash in Combination with Backlighting

You may run into a situation where a photo has just enough of a problem with too-dark areas as well as too-light areas. In that case, try running the Fill Flash  filter on the photo, and then the Backlighting filter.

 

Related Topic

Using the Backlighting Filter

Using the Chromatic Aberration Removal Filter

Using the Digital Camera Noise Removal Filter

Improving Colors

Improving Contrast

Improving Saturation