Photo Editor

Temperature first, then exposure-type moves (brightness/contrast), then saturation last. The reason: a photo with a warm or cool color cast reads as 'too saturated' or 'flat' when the real problem is white balance — fix the cast and the colors often snap into place with no saturation change at all.

If you can name the slider from across the room, it's too much. ±10–15 on these scales handles most correction; ±40+ is a stylistic look, which is fine when chosen deliberately. The classic tells of overcooking: orange skin (temperature/saturation), gray whites (brightness down + contrast up), and halos around edges.

The preview is deliberately a scaled-down proxy so sliders respond instantly; the download re-runs the identical math on the original at full resolution. So a 12-megapixel photo exports as a 12-megapixel photo — edited, not shrunk. JPEG for sharing (smaller), PNG when you'll keep editing elsewhere.

For global corrections — the fix-this-photo-before-posting workflow — honestly, mostly yes. What it deliberately doesn't do: local edits (dodge/burn, masks), healing and object removal, RAW processing, and batch workflows. Those are where dedicated software earns its complexity; for one photo that's too dark and too blue, this is faster.