Image Editor Guides

Last updated: 2026-11-02

The editing guides show what Image Editor's tools do, using before-and-after photographs you can download and try yourself. The history guide traces how these tools developed.

A lake below Montana mountains, with textured clouds and green and gold grasses.
Light, color, and detail. This Montana landscape appears in the photo adjustments guide, in the screenshot of the Adjust panel. Auto Adjust selected an AUTO value of 60.Photo: Aubin Douglas/USFWS. Public domain. Edited in Image Editor.

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