# Dark photo editing...can someone help me?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 25, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657 "2009-06-25T05:04:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/1 "2009-06-25T05:04:12Z")
Last night I was out by the way and took some photos of the car, but it was after 9 so if was dusk. I took them without the flash bec I know tha would make them come out like shit since I wanted to get the sky and lake in the background.
Can someone lighten up 8-10 photos for me?
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### Author:  [@yamba6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/yamba6)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/2 "2009-06-25T05:07:22Z")
if you have an iso setting your going to want to put it at a higher setting
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### Author:  [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/3 "2009-06-25T05:31:01Z")
I have 0 editing knowledge or experience so I have no idea whay you just said lol. I also don’t have any software to do it with
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/4 "2009-06-25T05:31:10Z")
This sounds more exposure related…
If you mess with the levels too much to lighten them, they’re going to look washed out
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### Author:  [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/5 "2009-06-25T05:32:55Z")
Ya I tried to lighten them with some shitty microsoft photo editor thats on my work computer and it does not have enough bells and whistles to make it look good at all.
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/6 "2009-06-25T05:33:33Z")
I can try with PS, but I won’t have access to my home PC until noon
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### Author:  [@yamba6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/yamba6)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/7 "2009-06-25T05:45:07Z")
what kind of camera are you using?
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/8 "2009-06-25T06:02:30Z")
Yeah these are just too dark, I PM’d him letting him know about shutter priority.
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### Author:  [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/9 "2009-06-25T09:10:16Z")
if youve got the option, shoot in raw format. you can adjust the exposure later in photoshop or lightroom.
example:
before editing you couldnt make out any detail on the two people in the background.
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### Author:  [@Johnnyv412](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Johnnyv412)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/10 "2009-06-25T09:13:35Z")
send them to my email. [Johnnyv412@gmail.com](mailto:Johnnyv412@gmail.com)
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### Author:  [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/11 "2009-06-25T09:18:58Z")
> [@Johnnyv412](#):
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> send them to my email. [Johnnyv412@gmail.com](mailto:Johnnyv412@gmail.com)
email sent
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/12 "2009-06-25T09:19:04Z")
> [@Johnnyv412](#):
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> send them to my email. [Johnnyv412@gmail.com](mailto:Johnnyv412@gmail.com)
good luck. here’s an example:
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/13 "2009-06-25T09:23:25Z")
Unfixable. Dont bother. Sorry man
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### Author:  [@yamba6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/yamba6)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/14 "2009-06-25T09:34:47Z")
yeah, my work computer just shows a black square. lol
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### Author:  [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/15 "2009-06-25T09:57:20Z")
Idk why that attached file looks so bad…w/e
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/16 "2009-06-25T10:00:23Z")
LOL!
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### Author:  [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/17 "2009-06-25T13:05:18Z")
:lol:
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/18 "2009-06-25T13:25:18Z")
Oh come on, the CSI miracle enhance I see on TV all the time could fix that, and then pull a license plate number out of the reflection in someone’s eye.
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### Author:  [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/19 "2009-06-25T13:30:13Z")
no hope, but you can use it for a sig or something.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dark-photo-editing-can-someone-help-me/69657/20 "2009-06-25T13:36:57Z")
^ At least now I know there was a car in the picture.
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