# Cheer up Photos!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cheer-up-photos/198170
**Category:** design
**Created:** [August 22, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cheer-up-photos/198170 "2006-08-22T22:22:58Z")
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### Author: ![evildrummer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/evildrummer/32/2308_2.png) [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cheer-up-photos/198170/1 "2006-08-22T22:22:58Z")

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I was experimenting with a few methods of brightening photos in photoshop a few minutes ago and realised that all the easy ways normally end up looking terrible BUT I think I found a way of making photos look more cheerful 😃 Heres an example:

Original: ![](http://static.flickr.com/66/222358014_555380df3e.jpg?v=0)

Brightened/cheered up:

![](http://static.flickr.com/74/222358016_9fcadcc239.jpg?v=0)

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make it look better?