Well, if that’s all you have to work with, the absolute easiest and thus far most effective way to cope with the image, that I’ve found, is to duplicate the layer and use a Screen Blend mode. Then duplicate that layer. You’d be amazed at how much comes out, but you will also see the JPG artifacts I spoke of.
definately not a mustang
Okay, so I don’t know squat about cars. Point made <grin>.
Mathais, one of our regular contributors has created a set of actions for underexposed images, that I also used, (but still prefer the method I described above), called DigitalDeluxe Toolkit. It’s a free set of actions that may help a bit.
Visit Mathias’ site and download it:
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http://www.2morrow.dk/75ppi/coolpix/actions/>
It may help – there’s contrast masking and underexposure controls that can often help.
Peace,
Tony