Improving a dark picture

Hi, i am relatively new to photoshop, well very new in fact i can only do things that i learned from using fireworks.

My question is, which affects and filters do you recomend i use to improve the quality of this photograph, it was taken with a phone in the dark so is terrible quality.

I am not sure if doing something like this is possible, but any help would be greatfuly received

this is the picture ------ http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mengibbohv1.jpg

hi,
first I am novice like you.... so when experts come on they can give more solid advice....

like you said it poor quality.... very grainy, noisy, and dark...

I was able to bring out the picture...
by
1. doing a level adjustment and a little bit of a curve adjustment... that help out bring out the main details...
2. I tried my ps cs noise removal.. but got a better job done with neat image.... i think the new ps has a little better noise removal than mine...
had to be carefull not get too much noise removal because it ended up doing too much bluring...
3. did some sharpening.. i had to be care full on this... to not to over do it .....

I ended up with a little better picture.... but still a lot graininess... hopefully the epxerts have a couple of tricks to help alliviate that..

Owen1 said:

Hi, i am relatively new to photoshop, well very new in fact i can only do things that i learned from using fireworks.

My question is, which affects and filters do you recomend i use to improve the quality of this photograph, it was taken with a phone in the dark so is terrible quality.

I am not sure if doing something like this is possible, but any help would be greatfuly received

this is the picture ------ http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mengibbohv1.jpg

Pretty solid advice jerrylb

Noise reduction is a very image degrading tool so more often then not you'll get better results running a high noise reduction on "just" the blue channel (since thats where the majority of the garbage is located)

thanks for the help it looks better now, ill just have to remember to bring camera and not a mobile next time