Tiki Fun in Photoshop

before


after

Check out the before and after. Usually when you tweak
an image like this where the foreground is dark and the sky light,
you'll have to adjust the foreground so that there's more light.
The drawback is you'll lose the sky because the background
will white out.

To remedy this:

1. Click on a selection tool.
2. Enter a value for feathering in the top menu bar, say, 2.
3. Select the light part of the image. In this case it's the sky.
4. Click on Select>Inverse to switch to get the Tiki selected.
5. Adjust the Levels for the Tiki using Image>Adjustments>Levels.

That's it!

Gotta love this happy guy! He's in Honolulu.