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If your image is looking washed out, you can easily manipulate it to look better. Open the file. If the Layer palette is not visible, display it by going to Window>Show Layers. Drag the background to the New Layer button on the Layer palette to duplicate it. Change the Blend mode for the duplicate layer to Soft Light. If the results are too dark, lower the opacity of the layer. If the photo is still too light, drag the copy to the New Layer button to duplicate it again. Adjust opacity as needed.

Got an image that is too dark? Here’s a quick and easy way to fix a dark picture using Blend modes. Open the photo. If the Layer palette is not visible, display it by going to Window>Show Layers. Drag the background to the New Layer button on the Layer palette to duplicate it. Change the Blend mode for the duplicate layer to Screen. Alternatively, go to Image>Adjust>Levels and try playing around with the settings.

There are a number of ways to improve image contrast. The Overlay mode in the Layers palette is one of the simplest. Open the dull image and duplicate the background layer. In the Layers palette, click on the little triangles immediately to the right of the box that says Normal. The Blend Mode pop-up menu should appear. Scroll down and select Overlay. Using Overlay, the dark colours in an image are multiplied while the light colours are screened out, creating better contrast. By doing this you get a sharper picture. After this, go to the Layer menu and select Flatten Image.

There are times when you get pictures that are too red. Don’t panic. There’s an easy way to tone them down. Go to Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation. By default you would get the Master colours selected. Choosing the Master changes all the colours at once, but since we have to change the red colour, change the option to Reds. Watch what happens to your image when you decrease (move the slider to the left) the Saturation. You can also increase the Lightness. You can eliminate the yellow jaundiced look by selecting the Yellows and decreasing the yellow Saturation. Experiment with the settings to get the desired effect.

Open an image. Select the Type tool and type the copyright symbol or any other text you want for the watermark. Click the Color swatch, and set the colour to 50 per cent grey. Click OK to exit the Type layer in the Layer palette and choose Effects. Apply the Bevel and Emboss effect and adjust the setting to your liking. Change the Blend mode to Hard Light. This should give a watermark effect to your image.