 Okay, this is gonna be a quick tech tip. I'm doing this in GIMP, but most photo editing software will have a feature like this It's called auto levels and I bring it up because quite often on sites like Facebook people will scan in old photos from when they were kids And and upload them and they all look kind of faded like these now These are all photos. I got off. I just googled something like home photos 70s and did an image search on that and just grab random images here and And and it bothers me because these can look a lot better with minimal work So I'm gonna show you how to do that today. I may have already done this a while ago But it's a pet peeve of mine because anybody can do this and obviously you can get a lot more in depth with Editing your photos, but this is very simple here. So here's a sample photo and you can see it's kind of old and faded Go up to colors levels now watch the image auto levels. Look at that. So before after before after Looks a lot better if you ask me. Let's go ahead and then you can obviously save that out Let's do the next one here and go auto levels and it looks better You know, obviously there's more work that can be done to it But auto levels works great and you can manually do the levels to Which takes a little more time, but you can tweak it a little bit better But I'm just talking about for people who aren't photographers don't do image manipulation much I mean give anybody can get on any operating system desktop, you know and It's free and look at look how much better again before after And close that here's one again. So again, it's it's colors levels If it's the last thing you did you can just click the image and it brings up the last tool that you used in Gimp, so there we go. There's the original image auto again, not perfect But a lot better and again and then after that you can go into curves and you can you know The curves a little bit just by tweaking these a little bit. So again before and after a lot better So I'm just gonna close that out And again, I'm just showing you the same thing over and over again levels auto See the difference between for and after just by clicking that one auto levels button Now it doesn't always work great as I'll show you in a minute with a couple of examples Auto levels, I'm just showing you a bunch of examples of where it does work Right, so it's looking good now if the picture is so faded that there's no color left in it It makes it look better, but it's still not going to be perfect. So here's an example. This picture is very fade Barely any color in it Definitely, I think looks better with auto levels and definitely could be tweaked a bit more a lot more manually But I still think the after looks better It's a little bluish-tinge so you could go into color balance and balance that out But again, I think it looks better than the yellowish orange gray that you get or shade that you get With a lot of old photos another one the colors are very faded on let's go levels auto levels Not not a whole lot of change But it definitely I think it is an improvement and again You can tweak things beyond that and now this doesn't just go for older faded photos I do this on a lot of my newer photos with new cameras if you have good lighting You're gonna click auto levels you're barely gonna see a difference But if the lighting isn't very good where you take the picture it can make a difference So I suggest doing this on all your photos just going and clicking if you know unless you're you know real photographer You're gonna get in there and actually adjust the levels yourself, you know color by color, you know whatever so You could do that, but I mean if you're just the average person out there Auto levels is a great thing to to just do to all your photos and most time very rarely Doesn't make it look bad if there is a lot of one color in an image I find that you know it just it doesn't look better necessarily, but in most pictures it looks better Like I said newer cameras if you have good lighting you'll barely see a difference because your levels are already really good But if the lighting was bad or your camera wasn't that great auto levels can make things look better So that's just a quick tech tip for anybody because everybody takes photos and especially if you have old Hold old home photos like this The ones I showed in the example today that I just got through a Google search. They can make They can look a lot better. So just go ahead do that, you know again Colors levels auto levels and then export that image before you upload it That's it. I hope you found this useful and as always I hope that you have a great day