Can someone help me out?

Hi, I went to a renaissance fair today and they had capt jack there. Of course when I ran into him I was by myself! I had to get a teenage girl to take our picture and I forgot to set the camera up for her. I should have put it on auto. Anyway is there anyway to save this picture? If so, can you kinda walk me through it. I have CS3 and lightroom2

Thanks in advance,

Teeny

By the way, it was 81 degrees her yesterday and today it was freezing! I hate that big coat!

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All I did here was to duplicate the layer and set it to multiply mode. Other ways to do it, but this is pretty simple.

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Thank you and I will give that a try! By the way, that is face paint on me. Thats what the red hearts are.

Teeny

If it's RAW you can just reduce the exposure, it's only a stop or so over so should come back perfectly.

It's worth a try, but I'm not so sure. I've had much better luck with under- than overexposure.

i ran it through lightroom.. bumped the exposure down just a little.. to .38 then i ran recover and slid it up to 50%

then i put it in pscs3, made a duplicate layer, and did multiply, and adjusted the opacity to my liking.

then i ran a couple of steps to saturate colors, and bring out some contrast.

with the real image file it would have looked better.

Thanks Shanny, that looks much better!

Teani

not a problem.

PhotosGuy wrote in post #6697500
It's worth a try, but I'm not so sure. I've had much better luck with under- than overexposure.

With the 40D and CS3 or better I find a stop over easily comes back, 1.5 or 2 sometimes works too. HTP seems to help too. With older cameras and software overexposure was more of an issue.