>>3459984No worries anon. I like writing this stuff down and editing other people's photos as practice.
Here I had to work a bit backwards since you already had quite a bit of clipping in the highlights while the rest of the shot was quite underexposed. I brought up the shadows slider and brought down the highlights so they would more or less stay the same once I brought up exposure, which I had to do because I brought down the midtones+shadows while pushing them a bit closer together and pushing them further away from the highlights which is really the main point. Make the highlights as bright as you can without clipping and bring the midtones+shadows further away from them. You'd of course have a lot more flexibility with a raw file.
