Adobe Lightroom has a "Fill Light" function that brightens a dark photo by simulating the firing of a flash instead of simply increasing the exposure - increasing the exposure sometimes over-exposes some parts of the photo.

Does Photo Pos Pro have a similar capability?

Photo Pos Pro have a great function called "Logarthim Stretch..." capable to fixing a very poor ligh photos. Please check it out to see if it fits your nedds - I'll be happy if you can write if it worked out for you.

Yoni,

Tried the Logarithim Stretch. What it does is it alters the whole picture to the same degree for all areas of the picture.

The Fill Light feature I am looking for alters the photo to make it appear like a flash was used to lighten the subjects and does not necessarily alter the whole picture to the same degree. The near subjects are lighted up while the background does not get affected as much - very much like when you use a flash.

Gary

After some thinkings, I think maybe you can create a custom curve that can produce similar results. Did you tried the custom color curves tool?

Yoni,

Thanks for the suggestion. It's just that it seems so complicated to achieve what I can do with Lightroom or Picasa where just one slider button allows me to put in Fill Light adjustments.

Thanks anyway.

I will just have to use PhotoPos for editing where I do not need Fill Light and then use Picasa for where I need Fill Light adjustments.

You may want to consider this feature for future improvements to Photo Pos.
Gary