How to recover exposure, get rid of noise and stylize an image

OK, let me be straight. I do sometimes completely screw up my exposure. Here’s what I like to do to fix an image (almost) as fast as I’ve taken it. Whether it’s because I totally missed the right settings or because the action happened so fast I had to press the shutter NOW before it was gone forever, $h!t does happen to me once in a while. I’ve come up with five brainless steps that take me less than 90 seconds to go from “this is garbage” to the “here’s National Geographic’s next cover” image (and I’m BARELY exaggerating …). [...] Read the full article on Photofocus.com by clicking on this link!