How do you fix a bright object in PSElements

[wcsangel]

I am trying to learn to use Photoshop Elements and would like to fix the brightness of the light in the photo. The center of it is just a bright hot spot. I've tried several things, but everything I try just looks faked.

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[Rentham]

You can't fix it. That spot is blown out, so there is no information in that part of the photo to recover. One potential solution is to take multiple exposures (some brighter, some darker) and use photoshop to then blend them together to keep detail in the highlights and shadows.

[JFSanders]

Mike is correct, as usual. If you look at the histogram of that image you will see that in the lamp's bright spot all of the pixel values are at 255 which is pure white. No other information will have been recorded and as such without a serious amount of pixel work it will look faked. And if you did manage to bring it down it would in essence be faked.

Bracket your images and then layer them in a HDR type process and you will get what you are looking for.

[wcsangel]

Actually, the image is HDR. Made up of 3 bracketed images. Thanks for your help! I think you both confirmed what I suspected.