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Sometimes you'll encounter an image for which the flash didn't go off or it is underexposed for other reasons. Photoshop, and similar image editing applications, can make a big difference in improving the quality of such photos. In this tutorial I'm going to focus on the newlyweds.
Use the Lasso tool to make a general selection around the couple. You want to isolate them so you can work on adjusting them alone, and the way you do it will mask out the rest of the image. So make a selection all the way around.
 
You can get a better selection by using the Quick Mask mode, which I teach extensively in my Basic Photoshop training.
Quick Mask (Q) will allow you to view a rubylith of your selected and deselected areas and use the Brush tool to keep working on the selection. This gives you a lot more control and accuracy, versus just using the Lasso tool.
Use black as your foreground color (viewed as red) to deselect or hide areas that you don't want selected. White brush will show up as clear and this is what will be selected.
Once you have got your selection in the Quick Mask mode (great for making and editing selections), you can go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to preview the feather or exit the Quick Mask mode (Q again) and then choose the Lasso tool and right-click to choose Feather, to create a softer edge.
Now that you've isolated the area that you want to work on by creating a selection of it, go to the Curves dialog box from the pop-up menu.
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