Improve exposure of digicam shot against Sun?

[pstein]

On one of my digicam shots I focussed an object against the (sun) light.

No surprise that the background is rather bright (almost white) while the core object is rather dark.

How can I easily improve such a digicam shot?

In other words the background should be darker while the foreground object should become brighter

I need no professional 10-step perfect cooking receipt but an easy-to-do quick trick.

It should be applicable with PSP X2

Peter

[Forriner]

For quick results I like Curve adjustments: menu Adjust/Brightness and Contrast/Curves.
-Once open, click on the Reset button (rightmost in the Settings row) just to be sure you're starting from scratch.
-you can preview in before/after windows and/or Preview on image.

In the frame you see a straight diagonal line, from darkest (left) to brightest (right) in the image, like in a histogram. Moving the cursor over the line the cursor becomes a black Arrow point with + and a black circle below it.
Clicking on the line adds an adjustment point. Moving the cursor over a point changes cursor to Arrow head and 4-directional Arrow. Click and drag to adjust position. Click and drag out of the window to remove a point.

To quickly try lightening mid tones: click on the line in the middle of the grid and drag it up a bit. Midtones should get lighter. Now click and drag the point at the left grid line upwards. Darker colours should get lighter. Drag it down to darken. Watch how the whole line reacts to moving one point. You may want to add anchor points where you want the line to stay as is: just click where you want to anchor. It adds a point that stays where it is when you move another point.

That's about it: you lighten or darken points at corresponding points in the histogram. Play with it, there's Always the reset button.

There's more to curves, you can see that on the Curves palette.

[pstein]

great! Its perfect

[R Frydryck]

You may want to look into PSP HDR function.