As part of the photoshop tutorials for beginners series, here is a simple tutorial to show how to turn an underexposed photo to professional illustration. Given that most users tend to edit or touching up photos with photoshop, we hope this easy tutorial will be useful to beginners.
PREPARATION
For this tutorial I used a photo done with an old analogic camera (Canon AE-1), you can download this photo or you can use your own photo and use the same techniques obtaining the same beautiful result, obviously the better the image the better our final work will be.
Adjusting the colorsFirst of all you need to open the image (File > Open) you want to modify, duplicate the layer using CMD