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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Corfield" data-source="post: 1358536" data-attributes="member: 19132">A very simple way to fix the levels when using something like a laptop monitor and be fairly confident that they will look ok on the web is shown in the attached image. Using your photo as an example there is a large empty area of information to the right of the histogram and this is what's causing the image to look too dark. This is common with digiscoping as the lens isn't capturing the amount of information with regards to light/shadow that a camera lens might. The histogram contains a lot of useful information like this and adjusting them manually is usually all that's needed as long as white balance etc is ok when shot. Adjust the right hand side for highlights and general lightening of the image, adjust the middle pointer to the left to lighten shadows/midtones and alter the left hand pointer to affect the darkest areas.Paul.</blockquote>