1. A guide to some of the basic techniques using Photoshop Elements 9 By Candice Foers-Bates

2. Part 3 Adjusting the lighting on your image

3. Adjusting the lighting of your image Go to ‘Enhance’ > ‘Adjust lighting’ > ‘Levels’

4. Adjusting the lighting of your image See the graph that appears – this one is fairly well balanced already because the black area fills the graph area.

5. Adjusting the lighting of your image Here’s an example of an image which needs adjustment. Pull the handles on the graph to the edges of the black area. You can also control the midtones with the middle handle.

6. Adjusting the lighting of your image Notice the difference in the image itself.

7. Adjusting the lighting of your image Go to ‘Enhance’ > ‘Adjust lighting’ > ‘Brightness/contrast’

8. Adjusting the lighting of your image Pull the brightness slider around and see your image change.

9. Adjusting the lighting of your image Now try the same thing with the contrast slider

10. Fantastic! Now you’ve mastered this, don’t stop now… Move on to the next tutorial.