>>7345149Photoshop has a really handy tool that I use a lot called Shadows/Highlights (pic related, I just ran it through the default settings), which lessens shadows or makes bright pieces lose their glow and have more prominent edges and details. If you have an image editor with a few useful tools, you can do a lot to compensate for imperfect lighting conditions.
I also make heavy use of the Auto Color or Auto Tone tools (which one is used depends on what kinds of colors are present in the shot; sometimes I use one, then the other, then the first one again) that automatically adjust the hues to look more true-to-life. If you've ever taken a picture of a build with a lot of white pieces, you might have noticed that they appear cream-colored and not crisp white. This is likely because the lightbulbs in the room you're in are putting out yellow light, and that's getting picked up and magnified by the camera. Photoshop can tell that the white bricks are supposed to be white, and adjusts all the other colors in the shot to match with what they would be if the cream pixels where white instead.
