You have probably seen all thoose fantastic photomanipulations that is out on the web and guess what,
Im going to introduce you to some and you will be suprised on how easy it acctually can be.

This is the image Im going to work with, thought it came out rather good
when I took the picture of our cat Zintus

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PRIMARY PHOTO MANIPULATION - IN THE SHADOW

It doesnt have to be hard to make a photo manipulation but rarely you use the tools.

1. Pick up an image that you want to work with and copy it and then close it down so you dont destroy the origional image by mistake.

2. ADJUST - BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST - CURVES

You should now have something like this infront of you, this is a curve where you can put the settings just as you wish to have them, above you can see how I choosed to have my image.

Press the OK button when youre satisfied

Now I have this, its an excellent shadow image however I wish to have it more clear.

3.

ADJUST - BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST - HIGHLIGHT/MIDTONE/SHADOW

And you will now have something like this

When you have made the settings as above you can press OK and you will have an final image

Still thinks its to dark and not satisfied.... Well then there is another step for you

4.

The automatic choice doesnt always have to be bad, infact if you go

ADJUST - AUTOMATIC CONTRAST ENCHANCEMENT

Make theese settings an then hit the OK button and your image is done

FINAL RESULT