Sometimes you have a photo where the flash was just a little too far away from your subject, or the lighting was too dark.  Or with this photo to the right, the flash didn’t fire.

What you’ll need:

• Adobe Elements 2.0 or Photoshop 7.0 or higher
   

• Photograph in digital format

 You’ll learn how to:

• Improve the color on photo that is too light

Open Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

Open your Photo.

Choose File > Open and browse your system for photo.

Click photo of choice and then choose Open.

We are going to use layers to lighten the color in this photo. 

 Choose Layer>Duplicate Layer.

Click on the top layer in the Layers Palette to make it active, as shown at the right. (It may already be selected).

In the Layers Palette, change the blending mode to SCREEN.

You should notice that your photo gets much lighter, and it may be a bit too light.  We will fix this in the next step.

Look at the difference that this one easy step can make!

Adjust the layer OPACITY in the Layers Palette until the color of your photo looks just right. 

I used 100% here.

Be sure to save your photo with a new name so you can always go back to the original.