Darkening the background

Once you've got the subject cut out correctly, you can go after the image…and build the repair.…This is to be a simple sandwich effect where we color-correct the background,…tweak the foreground, and put the pieces together. Let's have a look.…I will go ahead and turn off the Foreground layer and just look at the Background…layer for a moment, and what I am going to do is apply the Exposure effect.…There it is, under Color Correction. And we will just back that down a little bit.…

Notice how that did a nice job of bringing down the overexposed areas in the scene.…Looking pretty good. A little bit of gamma adjustment there. And I think that's…a nice overall fix.…Let's follow that up with a little bit of Vibrance to bring some of that color…back, and we'll just bring the overall color up in the background, so it's a bit richer.…

Saturation is going to do all color, but Vibrance does a nicer job of not…posterizing the reds.…So if we look at that, there is our original image and here's the newly treated…