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In camera Re-touching.
Im new to photography and a couple of pics ive taken have been a good shot BUT under exposed, due to bad light and me with dodgy settings for the shot.
would you attemp to retouch the photograph??? Ive played with exposure compensation and D lighting in the cameras menus and ive got photoshop CS2 and tried to bring the shot to life. Any tips on compensating for this ?? 
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06-08-2008
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It really depends on quite how underexposed they are. If you have the raw files then it's a lot easier as that gives you a fair bit more lattitude to play wth.
I normally use the raw importer if any exposure settings are needed. If you dont have a raw file then you can use levels to bring up the exposure.
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06-08-2008
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I sometimes use a trick in PS where you copy the background layer, then set the new one to screen or lighten in the blending mode, depending on how under the shot is. You'll then have a overexposed and more than likley noisy shot. I then use the transparency setting and darkening with the curves till it looks decent.
Use screen if its quite under, lighten if its a bit under. Screen will boost contrast more also.
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06-08-2008
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Mike, I have some advice for you.
If you get into the lead of a regional 'A' final, don't balls it up and crash straight away. Hope that helps. 
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08-08-2008
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 As for your question, there are soooo many ways to go about this with something as powerful as photoshop, the easiest is to use adjustments>levels and play around with the right hand slider to lighten the image. This can have all sorts of other effects on the contrast and colour balance though  Whilst you can save some pretty poorly exposed images if you know how, you can't polish a turd so read the manual, find out how to view and decipher a histogram on the camera LCD screen, then get used to working with that to check exposure as you're shooting. If you like I'll bring the lappy next time I'm at Bury and give you a few pointers?
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