Hello heyang,
1. What exactly do you mean by ‘lighten up a photo’?
2. Are you referring to increasing the brightness?
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Savan – Microsoft Support.
How to lighten up a photo in paint
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Anonymous
lighten a photo in paint
how do you do something so simple as to lighten up a photo using paint
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Anonymous
2016-09-12T17:35:48+00:00 I have a photo that is dark blue. I want to know how to make it a lighter shade of blue?
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Anonymous
2017-08-17T01:41:23+00:00 Yes, I am referring to the brightness.
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Anonymous
2017-08-26T19:23:51+00:00 increase brightness in paint for a photo
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LemP 74,930 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2017-08-26T19:59:43+00:00 Paint (mspaint.exe) is a very rudimentary image manipulation program. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Paint
For photo editing, you need a more sophisticated program.
I haven't used any of the programs listed here, but you might be interested in trying one or more of them: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-free-photo-editing-software/2/