Make basic tonal adjustments

- [Instructor] Basic total adjustments…may not be as exciting as some of the other guided edits,…but they're by far more frequently needed…than any of the other ones.…Being able to improve tones and even color…in an image are a necessity,…and fortunately this can be easily accomplished…in the guided edit mode.…Now I'm going to go ahead and scroll down a little bit,…and I'm going to choose one of these images…in the sunflower area here.…This image here is really dark.…I kind of underexposed that when I shot it.…

So I'd like to improve upon that,…because I really like her smile…and I just like the composition of that photo.…So I'm going to select that image,…and I'm going to click on the editor button…to open up this image in the Elements editor.…And you'll notice that down here at the bottom,…this image is open in my photo bin.…You can always click on the photo bin to close it…if you wish, but I kind of like having that down there.…And in the Basics category of the Guided Edit,…this is where there's some really powerful adjustments…