But this is only possible if the corresponding image information is available in the image file, isnât it? Otherwise, as far as I know, there is no way around AI.
Absolutely no need for AI at all for thisâŚ
I use Photoshop (as you know), which uses various types of adjustment layers to brighten images and even video (although Photoshop certainly isnât classed as video editing software strictly speaking and has limited capabilities in so doing).
None of these traditional methods NEED to involve artificial intellegence, although that is now certainly part of Photoshop in its modern form.
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I once learned from a photographer on YouTube that if an image is very dark, image noise is created or details are lost when it is brightened. And even by reducing the noise, the image often remains somewhat blurred.
However, if a photo was taken in a format such as RAW, you have more leeway when editing, as I explained in my previous post. With JPEG photos, the scope for post-processing is more limited. But itâs been a few years since I saw that. Maybe Iâm no longer up to date.
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It is very true about image noise causing such issues but there can be ways of mitigating that, to a degree. Yes, it can also be a lot better to shoot in âRAWâ format as opposed to âJPEGâ for the reasons you outlined.
It is often a case of controlling the appearance of shadows, midtones and highlights independently of each other, rather than a âblanket brighteningâ, if you see what I mean. Then you might wish to work on the colours of the image, after dealing with the toning side of thingsâŚ
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Something different in between made by a street photographer.
He took a photo of a czech female police officer that he thought was cute. 
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Shit what a cutie 
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More than a cutie, she could be a model easily!!
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Hey guys. I found this article about a photo editing app that says itâs better than Adobe Lightroom. And itâs completely free. I canât test it, unfortunately, because it doesnât work on Android, but it works on Windows, Linux and Mac.
If anybody tries it out, let me know how you like it, and if it does a good job editing photos. Thanks.
did you asked here to become participant here? 
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If I saw her I would ask her to marry me 
I do have a certain doubt if I will ever get to meet her in the first place.
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In my humble opinion, everything is better than &*%ÂŁ$() Lightroom!
Oh how I LOATHE with a passion and EVERY single fibre of my being, that piece of âsoftwareâ! Itâs an absolute abomination to the photo editing world.
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Well OK @Constantin, you may well laugh so I suppose I should qualify my previous (perfectly serious) remarksâŚ
My HATRED for Lightroom is simple. The software relies on the user cataloguing in some cases thousands of images, when frankly there is NO need to ever do that if you are familiar with the filing system of your deviceâs operating system - and if you are not, I would question why youâd be using a computer in the first place.
For example, I know my way around Windows 11 âfile explorerâ so why on earth do I need a bit of software to catalogue pictures? As for the editing part of Lightroom, that can be done in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and then finished off in Photoshop or some other image editor.
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hi folks.
i read some posts hereâŚi testet the AI thingsâŚquite cool.
but thatâs not why iâm talking here.
i have not seen Gimp here, open source, free.
thatâs what i use for pictures and also sometimes for short vids as source in OBS-studio record 2 images as a video with âwith appear effectâ by changing transparency (donât know if itâs correct description).
and thatâs also not the main partâŚ
Gimp works fine for me and there are a lot of plugins available and as a beginner, it was not really hard to find out, what i can do and how.
iâm not professional and when picture-editing is not the same as photo-editingâŚI didnât say anything 
btw. it is often mentioned as a âphoto shopâ alternative.
Not sure if you actually meant to reply directly to my message or not.
Anyway, regarding âGimpâ, yes I have used it just to see what it does and whilst it is free (currently), I found it was very limited in what it could actually do.
Well actually it is, because photos are pictures of course. Image editing might be a different thing though if the image is not a photograph but for example, a drawing or a painting.
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i guess you mean the messages just before mine. not really wanted to answer something. just metioned gimp here as a free tool for digital pictures.
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Yes, I was referring to the fact that you had attached your message to my one about Lightroom where I tagged Constantin.
It didnât matter, I just wondered if it was deliberate or if you pressed the wrong âreplyâ by accident (the one for a general reply being the second one down, rather than the one under a message).
ah yesâŚi seeâŚand just clicked now on the blue reply button in your post 
i need a pause fro recreation 
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Come on now, David, donât hold back. Tell us how you really feel!
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I promise you, that really was just me being polite!!! If I had gone any further, you would have seen a VERY VERY different side to me.
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