Many times when shooting, especially outdoors, I will get an
over exposed image that I want to salvage. This image of the
beautiful Gabriela, was a great shot, but was way overexposed.
Had I shot this in RAW, I might have been able to tweak it, but
I had shot this as a .JPG, so this was going to take a bit more effort.
Before I learned this little trick, I used to just hit the Auto Level
option or Auto Contrast to see if I would be able to darken up
an image. That was until I found the beauty of using Threshold.
First step is really quite easy, create another layer, so you are not
working on your originial. Just choose Layer>Duplicate. This should
be on everyone’s list of the first thing you do, before working
on an image.
Next choose, Image>Adjustments>Threshold.
When you start the Threshold option, your image will turn black and white and look like a cutout.
