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This is a group picture I took of the softball team in 2010. I ended up using a different picture in the end, because this one had some nasty shadows cast across two of the players faces. Here’s a tip: hats off. Anyhow, what if you don’t have the luxury…

Here we’ve got the same, old underexposed image. After one more post, we just might be done with it for good. But I felt that to really see the unique aspects of each brightening tool in Lightroom, we should work with the same image throughout. If you jumped in here…

If you’ve been following along with our tutorial about , you may no longer think this is a nice picture. You may be sick and tired of looking at it. Well… too bad! So far, we’ve looked at how the Exposure slider and the Fill Light settings can brighten an…

We’ve got a decent image here. Nice posing and facial expressions. I love the two guys clasping hands on the right-hand side. There’s just one problem. The picture is a tad dark. Sure could use a little fill light. Hey, wait a minute… doesn’t Lightroom have a setting called “Fill…

This picture is nice, but we’ve got a little problem. It’s a tad dark. Not severely underexposed, but the curtains are thoroughly blacked out and the subjects are a little underexposed – maybe one to two stops. How do we fix it? The first tool we’ll look at is the…

It happens to the best of us. You snap a bunch of pictures, you take them home and put them on your computer, and you notice that they’re all a tad… dark. Doh! Now many people would just upload them to Facebook or Flickr anyway. That’s just the way it…

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