So I want to tone down the brightness from the window in this picture but I'm new to photoshop and I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to go about this without it looking "photoshopped".
I've used the brightness/contrast, levels, curves and exposures adjustments but they all leave it looking unnatural. Any help is appreciated
>>2863290
Also Yes I looked on youtube for tutorials but couldn't find any that addressed this.
Drop the highlights.
>>2863293
the highlights are blown like me evryday 420lmoayoloswagget
Two photos here, at different exposures, could have been combined
you can only hope to make the image slightly better, but not great
>>2863290
Do you have the raw file? You might be able to recover the blown highlights if you have the raw.
>>2863293
>>2863296
Yeah this is what happens every time I try to adjust any level be it highlights, brightness, saturation, curves ect. I over did it to show what I'm talking about but yeah every time I try to alter it the tones don't even out.
>>2863298
Sadly no, this is just a photo I found on google that I really liked
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Camera-Specific Properties: Camera Software Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (Windows) Image-Specific Properties: Image Width 2000 Image Height 1428 Number of Bits Per Component 8, 8, 8 Pixel Composition RGB Image Orientation Top, Left-Hand Horizontal Resolution 72 dpi Vertical Resolution 72 dpi Image Created 2016:06:14 16:47:58 Color Space Information Uncalibrated Image Width 2000 Image Height 1428
>>2863313
You need a raw photo, not a jpeg.
>>2863313
you found this on google and want to edit this .jpg for yourself?
dude, forget it.
>>2863313
The only thing you could possibly hope to do with this is to try to merge it with a random landscape/cityscape to make it look like there's something interesting out the window.
Read up about layer masks.
>>2863313
The highlights are completely white, there's no detail there that you can hope to recover in photoshop so at best all you can do is darken the blank white to a blank gray which only looks worse. A RAW file may have had slightly more highlight range to recover, but probably not much. A jpg definitely does not have anything to recover there.
That's called a blown highlight and that's why you don't want to overexpose digital photos. Digital cameras can retain a whole bunch of detail in dark areas that are seemingly all black, but they are not good at retaining detail in highlights.
Also why are you even editing someone else's photos? Just take your own and don't fuck up the highlights.
>>2863338
It's just a wallpaper that I saved, I'm doing this for myself.
Again please excuse my ignorance I am a huge noob at this but I want to learn, why are .jpg's or png's so hard to edit? What's difference between them and a raw photo?
>>2863396
jpegs are a lossy form of compression
whereas a RAW file would retain details as captured by a camera's sensor, the jpeg sees it as being white and discards any useful information
>>2863486
Oh, well thanks for the info guys!
>>2863290
wers de problam?
>>2863791
you somehow photoshoped a window?
>>2863816
obviously
>>2863816
No, he first converted the jpeg into .pcx, and then the pcx to raw to work with. It's not that difficult
>>2863290
If it helps your fantasy, her name is Ashley.
>>2864982
ashley what??
>>2863290
i'd eat those cherries
>>2864986
Madison
