Simple Photo Editing in Photoshop

This is just a basic way to brighten a photo in photoshop.

Pull up the photo you want:

First you are going to change it from a background (over on the layer palette) to a layer and duplicate 3 times.  To change it from a background, right click on the layer and choose "layer from background" at the top of the drop down menu.

Change the middle layer to screen and the top layer to soft light (using the drop down menu just above the layer palette that says "normal".  Adjust the opacity on each level until you get it how you like it:

Not a big difference, but you can see how it brightens it a bit!  Play around with this and see what different looks you can come up with!