Photoshop Tutorial - Fixing dark photo's using photoshop levels. FREE photoshop tutorial showing how to fix dark photographs.

Photoshop tutorial - Fixing dark photos using photoshop levels. Fixing Dark Photos - Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop tutorial showing how to fix dark photographs.

Fix Dark Photos - Learn how to fix dark images by using our easy to follow photoshop tutorial.



Many of us have taken photos only to find later that they have turned out to dark. Below is a short photoshop tutorial showing you how to fix dark photographs using photoshop levels. Photo manipulation does not have to be hard and complicated. Our tutorials here at photolabstudio.com are quick and easy even beginners can understand them.

You might also be interested in our tutorial for correcting over and underexposed photo's.

In the below photoshop tutorial we have used a photograph of my son Luke at Perisher Blue in July 2007. The photograph was taken using a Fujifilm S3500 camera.

Original color photo
Original Photo
Edited photo
Edited Photo

Lets get started with our photoshop tutorial!

Fix Dark Photographs - Photoshop Tutorial

Step 1:
Open the image you will be using for this tutorial.

Step 2:
In the top toolbar click on (Image > Adjustments > levels).

Photoshop levels

This will open up the levels window. The below image will show you the automatic settings for my image.

Levels settings

Step 3:
The first thing I do is to click on the (Auto) button. This will adjust the color automatically before we adjust it to our liking. Sometimes just clicking the (Auto) button will do without having to adjust anything else but if not keep following this tutorial.

Step 4:
We will now adjust the middle slider and the right hand side slider. If you slide any of these two you will see what they do for example sliding the middle one to the left will lighten the image. Try it and see! You can play around with these untill you are happy with the result of your image and the lightness. The image below shows the settings I have chosen for my image of Luke (above).

Auto color

That's all there is to fixing a dark image. Of cause there are other ways of doing this but this is just one of our ways. Always remember to save your photo's after modifying them.


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