How To Fix Underexposed Photos in Lightroom (The Right Way)

Learn how to fix underexposed photos in Lightroom. Understand the right way to correct dark photos that will keep your image looking natural.

You know the feeling. You take a bunch of photos thinking that you've exposed them properly. But when you open them in Lightroom, your images are underexposed.

You might be tempted to use Lightroom's exposure slider to properly expose your subject, but that often over-brightens your background, blowing out the highlights or making it look washed out or hazy.

This video shows you several examples of how to use Lightroom to fix your underexposed images.

Jim covers techniques like increasing the Shadows value, instead of just using the Exposure slider. And using Shadows, Blacks, Whites, Exposure and Contrast together to get the proper brightness in your photos.

Finally, this Lightroom tutorial also gives you an overview of using Lightroom's newly named Masks module to use a radial gradient mask and a subject mask to more finely control exposure for specific elements of your image.

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