Comments on: 5 Easy Ways to Lighten Dark Underexposed Photos in Photoshop http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-simple-ways-to-lighten-dark-underexposed-photos-in-photoshop/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Tue, 21 May 2013 22:17:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-simple-ways-to-lighten-dark-underexposed-photos-in-photoshop/#comment-420366 Steve Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:54:34 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=29121#comment-420366 Rougecrown tip is great, you can also improve sharpness, by duping a layer, go to high pass, about 4, then go to overlay and voila, increase in contrast and sharpness, you can use the sliders to adjust the opacity of the sharpness.

]]> By: Jason http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-simple-ways-to-lighten-dark-underexposed-photos-in-photoshop/#comment-419196 Jason Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:48:32 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=29121#comment-419196 These are some great tips! I have not tried the more detailed approach to using the brightness and contrast before but will give it a try. Using more than just the sliders should produce a good deal more detailed control.

]]> By: RougeCrown http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-simple-ways-to-lighten-dark-underexposed-photos-in-photoshop/#comment-419130 RougeCrown Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:54:05 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=29121#comment-419130 For the duplicate layer trick, Overlay works equally well. For pictures with really low saturation, i find overlay working better than Screen or Soft light (the diff is not that much actually)

One more tip for grainy photo: Duplicate the layer, Filter –> Median. For the setting, choose 5 pxl.

Change the top layer to “overlay” and change the opacity. this should reduce the amount of grains. :)

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