Gamma Curve
A power-law adjustment that brightens or darkens midtones while leaving black and white fixed. It mirrors how displays encode brightness and is a simple, widely used tone correction.
Spot it
- 01Lifted or crushed midtones
- 02Black and white anchored
- 03Smooth tonal shift
Why it happens
Raises each normalized brightness value to a power gamma, so values below one brighten midtones and values above one darken them.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Apply a gamma curve of 0.5 to this image: lift the midtones dramatically while black and white points stay fixed, so shadows open up and the picture looks bright, airy and slightly washed out, with smooth tonal transitions and no clipping. Keep the original subject and composition recognizable.”
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