When you take a photo in the street where the lighting is poor, you will notice that the subject of the shoot turns out to be dark and hardly visible. You can reveal details in the shadows using AKVIS Enhancer.
We use the Enhancer plugin in this tutorial, but you can take the standalone edition and use the same parameters to achive this result.
The original photo
The improved photo
Step 1. Open the image in your photo editor (if you use the plugin version of Enhancer).
Step 2. Call the AKVIS Enhancer plugin. To this effect select the command Filter - AKVIS - Enhancer in Adobe Photoshop; the menu item Effects - Plugins - AKVIS - Enhancer if you work with Paint Shop Pro; or Effects - AKVIS - Enhancer if you use Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
You will see the AKVIS Enhancer window (in the Enhancer mode) with the photo processed at default parameter values.
Step 3. Taking into account that the photo is underexposed, we need to reveal more details in the dark areas. We increase the value of the parameter Shadows to 100.
Step 4. Let's increase the overall lightness of the photo by moving the slider Lightness to the right to 70.
Step 5. Press the button in the Toolbar to apply the result of the photo correction and close the plugin window.
Compare the original photo and the result (click to enlarge images):
in the Toolbar to apply the result of the photo correction and close the plugin window.
— In the Street