The easiest way to fix an overexposed photo is to open it in Photoshop and choose Image- Adjustments- Shadow/Highlight (CS-only. For pre-CS look below). You'll see an immediate change in your photo and it will probably be too extreme, but just use this setting as a starting point. Photoshop ships with defaults that are often way over the top. Just play with the Amount Slider and the Tonal Width Slider in both the Shadows and the Highlights until you find just the right balance. And that's it!
Fixing Overexposed Photos, Pre-CS - The Layer Sandwich Trick If you do not have CS, use the following steps to help you reach similar results.
Step 1 - New Layer Open your photo and choose Layer- Duplicate Layer to make a copy of the Background Layer, or by dragging it to the New Layer Icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.
Step 2 - Change The Blend Mode Change the Blend Mode of the new layer from Normal to Multiply in the Layers palette to uniformly darken the photo.
Step 3 - Repeat Now repeat the entire procedure again. Create a new layer, change the blend mode to multiply, and then take a look at the result. Continue doing this until you go from "it's almost perfect" to "it's ruined!"
Step 4 - Lower the Opacity Now leave the last layer active even though it is much too extreme and lower the Opacity using the slider at the top right of the layers palette. This lowers the strength of the effect. Once you have found the right amount, you can flatten your image.
Step 5 - Flatten And Save Choose Layer- Flatten or use the palette's flyout menu and choose Flatten Image. Now you are done! Don't forget to save your file (File- Save).
Fixing Overexposed Photos, Pre-CS - The Layer Sandwich Trick If you do not have CS, use the following steps to help you reach similar results.
Step 1 - New Layer Open your photo and choose Layer- Duplicate Layer to make a copy of the Background Layer, or by dragging it to the New Layer Icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.
Step 2 - Change The Blend Mode Change the Blend Mode of the new layer from Normal to Multiply in the Layers palette to uniformly darken the photo.
Step 3 - Repeat Now repeat the entire procedure again. Create a new layer, change the blend mode to multiply, and then take a look at the result. Continue doing this until you go from "it's almost perfect" to "it's ruined!"
Step 4 - Lower the Opacity Now leave the last layer active even though it is much too extreme and lower the Opacity using the slider at the top right of the layers palette. This lowers the strength of the effect. Once you have found the right amount, you can flatten your image.
Step 5 - Flatten And Save Choose Layer- Flatten or use the palette's flyout menu and choose Flatten Image. Now you are done! Don't forget to save your file (File- Save).
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