hi guyz,

i took some photoes with my digital camera outside but problem is some of them are very bright o shall i say too "white"... i dont know how to call it technically but i try to make it normal so i used level, brightness functions in photoshop but afta these effects, photo doesnt seem so natural... if i wana make dark photos then i use level fuction which seems very effective but for darkening da photo it was not good... pls hlp me...

This post has been edited by opiuma7xp: Jan 10 2006, 05:28 PM


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dont get it.. put the pic here la.

IMHO, the photo u mean is over-exposed... its quite hard to make it looks great.. mayb u shud post your picture as ENTER said.. so we can try to modify it for u

this is resized original photo.. as u can c its over-exposed n da oda photoes taken r worse especially wid peoplwz white faces like pale person... n when i wana adjust it then it bacome worse.. pls hlp me.. teach me skills to adjust it...


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it is easier to get details from underexposed pics compared to overexposed. Im afraid there is nothing much you can do here.

edit: Shadow/Highlight tools might help a bit on those mid tone but u wont be able to get back the details lost in the highlight area.

This post has been edited by relaxjack: Jan 10 2006, 11:20 PM

You can try using the curve function - Command + M
I noticed mostly you guys like to use the level function


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Shadows & Highlights to adjust to brightness + fiddling the "Midtone Contrast" at the advanced settings gives you better results. Then do some serious color balancing to restore the right color.

Alternatively, you should first start by restoring the details, look into each single color channel, and amplify the ones with the most details. You can try sharpen the texture by duplicating the layer run it through a high-pass filter, then find the right blend mode to bring it down to your original picture. All these may affect your colors so again, you'll have to do serious color balancing to restore the right color.

again in the pther post, this could be adjusted in Image>Adjustments>Selective color>....you have to toy around with the color 'white' and level up the black or the yellows.