Appleis iPhoto ships with every Mac, and it includes a nice set of image editing tools. If you need to adjust a photois colors quickly, however, and donit want to add the image to iPhoto, you can still make your changes -- just open your photo in Leopardis Preview instead.
Preview lets you view and edit images. |
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To adjust image colors in Preview, do this:
- First launch Preview and open the image you want to edit.
- Now choose Tools > Adjust Color to open the adjustment panel.
- Click Auto Levels to let Preview try to improve your image colors, or use the sliders to adjust the exposure, brightness, contrast, black and white levels, and more.
- If you donit like the changes you made, just click Reset All.
- Be sure to save the image when you are satisfied with your adjustments.
Previewis editing features are in the Tools menu. |
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Preview includes basic image editing tools. |
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You can also change image size and resolution in Preview. Just choose Tools > Adjust size.
Preview is a handy application because it does much more than let you look at photos and PDF documents, and its built-in image editing tools make it easy to apply quick changes to graphics without having to add images to iPhoto or launch applications like Adobe Photoshop.
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