Exposing Tutorial

July 6, 2008 · Print This Article

This Exposing Tutorial will explain how to overexpose and underexposed an image.

Often images aren’t quite exposed correctly - in this images below, you can see an underexposed image, along with an overexposed one. In Photoshop it’s very easy to alter the exposure on any image, it’s just knowing how!

Below I have attempted to explain what tool to use and the easiest way of using it. If however you struggle and would like some help, please do leave a comment below or contact us.

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Exposing Tutorial - The Steps

Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial, if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.

Once that’s done, go into -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Brightness/Contrast…

The best way to find out what settings to use with these Brightness/Contrast settings, is to move the two scroll bars to the left and to the right, but to start off with I’ll give you a bit of an idea of what to do. But before we start, make sure the Preview box is ticked.

If your photograph is too dark and you want to brighten it, changing the brightness will probably help, you can go from 0 to +150, it’s likely you’ll end up with something in between that, but you can also go up to +150 if need be.

If it’s too light, then do the opposite with the brightness, go from 0 to -150. So to make it brighter, you move the brightness scroll bar to the right, to make it darker, move it to the left.

As for the Contrast scroll bar… unlike the brightness scroll bar, it only goes to either -50 or up to +50. The constract scroll bar basically adds I suppose depth, or I guess you could call it a type of glow. If you move it to the far left (-50), it would take away all the glow/depth to your image, it you move it to the far right (+50), it’ll add a lot of depth/glow to it, or you could move it to somewhere in between. But basically with this, you just need to fiddle with it until you come up with something you like.

Anddd….. you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Exposing Tutorial.