Lightening, Coloring, and Darkening in PS

Lightening, Coloring, and Darkening

Lightening an image:
I have so many caps that are too dark to even see who's in them. These are some basic steps that I take to lighten and color my images. I'm using PS. PSP has some of the same controls, so it can be used in there as well.

Go from this image, to this icon:


The tutorial is in my journal, follow the link.