# Can anyone help with a bit of light image editing?

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**Created:** [June 1, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-with-a-bit-of-light-image-editing/541450 "2010-06-01T01:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![charlie145](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@charlie145](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charlie145)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-with-a-bit-of-light-image-editing/541450/1 "2010-06-01T01:58:33Z")

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Hello all, I took a picture this morning whilst walking down the coast and would like to use it as my desktop background but the sun seems to have turned what I would like to be black into a light grey.

Can someone with photoshop (or other image editing software, i’m not biased!!) have a go at making the trees etc. look darker whilst still keeping the sun bright and colourful, I really don’t know where to start, at the moment the picture looks disappointingly ‘washed’.

[![](https://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ](https://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-with-a-bit-of-light-image-editing/541450/2 "2010-06-01T02:22:06Z")

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Check your PMs.