OK, here goes.
I've got two photos I'm trying to modify. One is just totally overexposed all over, but because it is of a white dog it seems to defy all the automatic tools that Photoshop offers.
The other I took myself and it was only afterwards I realised that a ray of sun had fallen across the bottom half of the subject and so it has two exposures/tones - top half normal and nice, bottom half golden and rather overexposed.
I've read a lot of digital editing magazines and see other people's fantastic results, so I can't believe that PS won't be able to "mend" these pictures, but I just don't know how....
SS
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