How To Fix An Underexposed Photo

The easiest way to avoid underexposed photos is to adjust your aperture settings, your shutter speed and your film speed when shooting. That's sounds pretty easy, right? Forget it. Photoshop was invented for the "I-can't-find-time-to-read-the-manual" photographer. Who cares if it's too dark or too light, we've got Photoshop!

So how easy is it to fix an underexposed photo? Very easy. 

• Open your photo up 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 don't panic. Photoshop ships with defaults that are often way over the top. 
• Just play with the Amount Slider and the Tonal Width Slider until you find just the right balance. And you're done!