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Find the exposure compensation adjustment on your camera and change it!. keep in mind your photos may turn out over exposed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm not sure you would want to do that kind of a picture, because it's pretty ugly from a photographic perspective!.

You could use either a graphics editing program (which is what that picture did) or do it in your camera!. Each will give very different results!.

1) Using a graphics editing program, you are increasing the brightness of the picture, and possibly the contrast, too!. A program like picasa - free from google at http://picasa!.google!.com can do it for you easily!.
Under photoshop, you would want to go to the "LEVELS" dialogue!. I think it's under the IMAGE menu - I don't remember!. Then try sliding the various triangles, particularly the midtones (grey) triangle, farther to the right!.

2) To do it on a camera is called overexposure!. Only certain kinds of digital cameras can do it, and it's difficult to instruct you how to do it without knowing your brand!. It will probably be under a SETTINGS menu called "exposure"!. It will give you a range like this:
- |-----l------0-----l-----| +
Marked with the numbers 2 , and 1 as you move away from the zero!.
To the right overexposes, making the entire picture brighter, and vice versa for underexposure to the left!. Depending on your camera, and your settings, a button marked with an asterisk or star could adjust this for you as well!. Play around with it!. By putting it at -1, that's called pushing it down a stop, referring to the f-stop of the lens!.
also, if you shoot on a manual setting, you could adjust the exposure times (using the Tv, or Time value setting), to get a similar effect!.

That picture was almost certainly done by the first method, using a graphics program, because there is a lot of noise (pixels that are uneven in colour or brightness with respect to their surroundings) produced when you adjust the levels!. It actually decreases the quality of the picture, becasue you are basically eliminating some information from the picture, and then equalizing the values!. That picture is done to the extreme!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

you have to change the settings

and pick brightness and adjust it how bright you want itWww@QuestionHome@Com