1. Camera settings
2. Exposure
3. Jpeg, tiff or RAW
4. Work flows
5. Jpeg work flow
6. RAW flow
7. File details
8. Storage
9. Computer set up and basic work flow
10. Image selection
11. Transferring images between folders
12. RAW processing
13. Sharpening
14. Shadow/highlight tool
15. Correcting under-exposed images
16. Overexposed images
17. Reducing digital noise
18. Correcting sloping horizons
19. Mono conversions
20. Layers
21. False snow
22. Producing a pencil sketch
23. Using a layer to burn and dodge
24. Curves
25. Altering contrast using curves
26. Altering part of the curve
27. Pysadelic curves
28. Curves and monochrome
29. IR conversions
30. HDR (High Dynamic Range) processing
31. Highlight & Shadow in Photomatix
32. Book list
33. Return to home page

OVER EXPOSED IMAGES

An over exposed image, where all the colours are bleached out, sometimes can be made usable using basically the same method described for under-exposed images but changing the mode to multiply.

Again a selected part of the image can be altered in a layer.

There is less possibility of correcting grossly overexposed images as the data just is not present. If you are lucky you may be able to recover some detail from 2 stops over exposure.