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Have you come across a sitation where your forground is severly underexposed due to the disparity in the lighting the particular scene? This post will help you to clear that up with a little bit of photoshop.
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Taking this particular scene, the foreground is underexposed while the background, i.e the sky is correctly exposed.
We start off by going to layers => duplicate layer
after which, we go to image => desaturate and we get something like this
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLNNiph_TUOKjSEtESh3DXcp7h1vZkjXshbkdCYz5vxzaZ6E-nHLEP_he8Z9rphWcrdzSVjwelwArWiz5dS2SKJjzWXZETJgF6PFn1NLTgeAxgxLZ-xqD-EEG2IB7rAdjyHmkQs3hgIc4/s320/DSC_0738-1+desaturate.jpg)
we go to image => invert and we get something like this
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXpmkK2mjT_F6xKfT8Wl4QjeoDIRCDmjUnkoSaTQVOBsEr2nxKVMqVxT6Otep-uf20lzJYCKW8YtKfv9x52mRE4JzUvQrTJrhpVU41x9Lrtho67TX9jW7A-B9OqGgYsd96YZrpMo0GTEQ/s320/DSC_0738-1+invert.jpg)
After which, go to filter=> blur=> gaussian blur and input the amount of radius you want. You might want to trial and error, but for this case, I am going to use a radius of 10.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OA58WvSg0XtJczgCmVzyQyyy84ZwAYLiK85LLV7ynAsSSwEeHODnoG8S73e27SCMrhDOV7b9Lwh8-5r_WMiBiUGGI-J2tFk2wG76DorGrvtem30QEkxLCsByvDdLkRzdUaAGyKcFK7Q/s320/DSC_0738-1+gaussian+blur.jpg)
Finally, go to your layers pallatte. Under the word “Layers” in the layers palette will be a menu box of blending modes. Change the blending mode from “normal” to “overlay”. Press cntrl E to merge your layers and you get this.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTXnB38xRiSjb_ocwMK6lnbNIDxjF3ELTHNaV0-aLrrYPLT9CVeBtvhzDy5m5WSVFw_MalIhhJae_C6D4WsiBuH7-3Q73pWP6-sDTL0q9x4Noqn0444NPmnp1JSoF5n5saur5-d3X6sDs/s320/DSC_0738-1+final.jpg)
Credits to Ivanified for sharing with me his discovery.
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