![]() As you can see from this larger photo, it is mostly trees in the background so I can't replace the sky. Your tips have helped slightly but some areas I guess were a little too blown out. You can also try to duplicate the background and put the new layer in Multiply (blending mode) reduce the opacity until you're happy with the background and use a layer mask or eraser tool to bring your subject back in front in it's original exposure. I'm glad it helped you guys! I found it on the net someplace but can't remember where. Wow pegio that's a good one! thanks! I'm also adding it to my book of Elements How-TosĪlso, Scott Kelby's book has a "how to replace the sky' tutorial that's pretty cool too I've pasted this one into my Elements Tips folder. Hey pegjo.Thats a really good tip you've shown us there. I use it quite a lot but if it is totally blown out it won't help much. Or maybe just reduce the opacity of the soft light layer. You can use a mask to get rid of the dark parts that you don't want to be dark. Hold the shift key down and drag your mouse from the top center to the bottom center.Ĭhange the blending mode of that layer to Soft Light. If the sky is not totally blown out this may help.Ĭlick on D to make sure black is the forground color and white is the background color.Īt the top-choose black and transparent as the gradient color. I will try some of these suggestions and see if I can fix it. If the effect's too much, you can reduce the Opacity (to the right of the blend mode) until you're happy with the result. You can then use the Eraser to rub out the parts you don't want to change with this adjustment. Multiply or Linear Burn would be my guess to darken up your overexposed area. Go to (I think!) Window -> Layer Palette, then in the Layer Palette change the blend mode (where it says "Normal") to something else. It's well worth noting that you can select the problem area using one of the selection tools, feather your selection to smooth the transition, then apply one of these methods, so that the well-exposed part of your shot remains untouched.įor something slightly more advanced, try opening your photo, then pressing Ctrl + J to duplicate it onto a new layer. Pulling the Highlights slider to the right may have some positive effect, but at the ame time it might ruin highlights in other parts of your pic. Otherwise, the Levels option mentioned above could work.Īnother alternative would be to try the "Highlights and Shadows" dialog (under the same menu as Levels). you only have a JPEG), and the background's completely white, it's gone forever (this sucks - I've done it soooo many times!). The basic point is that if you haven't shot RAW (i.e. So try using RAW and use the Adobe Camera RAW that comes with Elements to tease the details out of highlights and shadows then use the photo editor to fine tune. That gives you a much wider dynamic range to work with compared with an out-of-camera jpeg. I see you're a 350D user so you should be able to shoot RAW. Scott Kelby's book on your PSE version has a section just for over exposure. Or, click cancel and go back through procedure and click on Brightness. Then click Reset and start over with the left arrow. Play with these arrows back and forth to get the idea of what each does. Open PSE, Go across top of page to "Enhance" Scroll down to "Adjust Lighting" and across to three suggestions one being "Levels" as mentioned above. Without seeing the photo also, I will agree with the other two posts, here. You said that the sun was the problem.So if it was mostly sky that was over exposed. Without seeing the image I'd guess that you could use a Levels adjustment layer, or maybe Brightness/Contrast. Your link is telling me that I don't have permission to view the page/image. Scott Kelby's books are of great help, too. I could not see your picture as it was tagged private.Ī simple way is to make a duplicate layer and use levels to darken light areas and then erase areas that are now too dark.Īnother help would be to buy a polarizer for your camera. ![]() Is this fixable? If so, can I bother somebody to tell me how to do it? An example is 21 January 2009 PDT I have a few photos that I took today where the subject is correctly exposed but the background (because of sun) is over exposed.
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