photo manipulation help wanted

[roadrash]

I managed to get a photo of my favourite rider tommy voecler just past the finish line yesterday taken on my phone , when i printed it off it looks way too dark.
now me being a complete luddite and techno phobe was hoping if anyone who dabbles with photography, such as @ColinJ or @coffeejo could do anything with the image to (A), crop it down a bit and (B), somehow make it lighter.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[midlife]

I'd transfer it to a PC and use something like Irfanview (free) to smarten it up

Shaun

 

[TVC]

Gimp would be another program to use

 

[roadrash]

i honestly wouldnt know where to start doing anything like that, i already have it on my pc. i will take a look at Irfanview and gimp, thank you

 

[shouldbeinbed]

A very quick fiddle on my phone as I'm off out (Android app PicSay ( Pro= paid for version)

Is a better version of this the sort of thing you're after? Cropped, reduced the exposure a tad, made the whole image a shade warmer and sharpened it to reduce some of the fuzziness.

It's a very small pic to begin with if the uploaded one is as big as it gets - I suspect not & this sites limits have kicked in

 

[shouldbeinbed]

i honestly wouldnt know where to start doing anything like that, i already have it on my pc. i will take a look at Irfanview and gimp, thank you

Irfanview is more limited than Gimp or a similar desktop free photoshop-a-like 'Paint' and is less novice friendly.

Gimp is v good but takes forever to fire up.

You could try with the native windows image tools, they're OK for quick and relatively easy tweaks.

 

[betty swollocks]

 

[pplpilot]

Send me the original and I'll see what I can pull from it in Lightroom and/or Photoshop

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Is this any better?

 

[coffeejo]

Send me the original and I'll see what I can pull from it in Lightroom and/or Photoshop

What they all said / offered. Except for the advice about GIMP. I didn't get on with it.

 

[midlife]

Did I get Voecler ?

Shaun

 

[Crackle]

The force was strong with Tommy yesterday

 

[Yellow Saddle]

This nonsense all started here.

http://imgur.com/gallery/FyypP

 

[Markymark]

Pm sent. Would be better with original sent as email attachment as website might scale it down before displaying.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

What they all said / offered. Except for the advice about GIMP. I didn't get on with it.

I didn't get on with GIMP either and started using paint.net