Brighten a dark photo

Indoor and evening photos often come out dark and orange. Phixit brightens your photo and balances its color automatically the moment it opens.

Choose a photo to brighten or drop it here, or paste it

Free, no sign-up. Your photo stays on your device. Try it on a sample photo

How to brighten a photo

Choose or drop a photo. Auto runs straight away and sets the exposure, black and white points, and color balance.
Raise Shadows to lift dark areas without washing out the sky, and lower Highlights if bright parts lose detail.
If the colors still look off, use the gray-point picker and click something that should be white or gray. Save from Export.

Turn on Show clipping: red marks areas that are pure white, blue marks pure black.
Noise reduction, under Detail, cleans up the grain that brightening reveals.
Dehaze helps with photos taken through a window or on a misty day.

Can every dark photo be saved?

Most can. Areas that are completely black in the original hold no detail to bring back, and will look noisy or flat.

Why do my indoor photos look orange?

Indoor bulbs are warmer than daylight. The gray-point picker or the Temperature slider fixes it.

Does it change my original file?

No. Phixit never writes to your original; it saves a new file.