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Dark picture, I need to light an area

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I have a good friend who passed away a few hours ago.
I have an older picture that I scanned but I need to shine a light on his face area as it is too dark.
I know it can be done and I had some pro software a few years back that had a spotlight feature to do just that.
Damned if I can find that software, it's probably on one of my older machines laying around here and it would take a lot of work to hook up each machine to find it.

Does anyone know of a free graphics program I could use to do this task?
Thank you in advance,
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With Gimp you may be able to outline the facial area and lighten it from there.

I know with Photoshop, it can pretty much be done the same way, you just select the face, make it a new layer and then adjust the brightness/contrast properties.
 
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I know with Photoshop...

With Gimp you may be able to outline the facial area and lighten it from there.

I know with Photoshop, it can pretty much be done the same way, you just select the face, make it a new layer and then adjust the brightness/contrast properties.

Ah, that was the program I have here somewhere, I'm thinking. Bought and paid for years ago.
I don't want to just lighten the face or adjust the brightness/contrast properties manually as I have software to do that on this machine.
But that Sotlight feature works the nuts, nothing gets washed out, no detail gets lost as in adjusting the brightness/contrast properties.

But thanks for your advice.
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