exposure in photoshop

[photogenicimages]

I should know the answer to this, but for some reason I'm confused..... when shooting raw, in photoshop can you bump the exposure to .14 or 2 without losing lots of quality? I just cant remember what 2 stops is in lightroom!!! It's early for me :0)

[WLPelzmann]

You can, but not recommended standard operating procedure.
Obviously a low ISO helps, but even with that, you will start seeing a lot of noise in the darker tones. You can then hit it with noise reduction, at the expense of softening the image. It you don't enlarge it to 20x30 or pixel peep at 100%, many will still be useable.

[photogenicimages]

Ok, but is .14 or 2 two stops on photoshop? I didnt take these, my crap of a wedding photographer did and I'm trying to figure out how to save our wedding pictures. Nothing has ever looked this bad coming out of my camera so I dont know how to fix things this dark/red. I have no idea what iso ect. they used becuase they shot in jpeg........

[Arnor]

Hi Dori,

Originally Posted by photogenicimages

I have no idea what iso ect. they used becuase they shot in jpeg........

Wait a sec!<g> Even in JPEG you should get the full EXIF information from the image. If it has no exif info, this may have been done by "Save to Web" in PS, which... well, let's not go there, but suffice to say that the quality is probably not very good (generally these are pushed down in compression to make them smaller and strip the exif off etc. etc.) I would approach the photog. and see if they can't provide you with unprocessed images. Even the cheapest p&s save the exif including iso etc...

Best regards,