Improving Your Photos ­ Basic Editing | Other Tools for Correcting Exposure Problems On the Brightness and Contrast submenu of the Adjust menu you'll find no fewer than nine tools for adjusting the tonal values in your pictures. Why so many? Well, many of these tools do the same thing in a slightly different fashion. As you become more experienced you'll no doubt find your own personal favorite. For some people, Levels is the only way to make tonal adjustments to an image; others swear by Histogram Adjustment. There is at least one tonal adjustment tool that's probably best avoided, so we'll deal with that first. Brightness/Contrast This is the first option on the Adjust > Brightness and Contrast menu ­ give it a rearward glance every time you flash past it on your way to more useful tools. The problem with Brightness/Contrast is that it applies a blanket adjustment across the tonal range ­ there's little that's sophisticated or subtle about it.