How to fix brightness/lighting on a photo?

Well I was taking some photos and of something and when I went and looked at them in my camera roll they were bright for some reason. They look as if I went in and edited all of them and turned the brightness all the way up. It was really weird because they were really good pictures and I don't think I can get the same ones again. Is there a way I can fix the pictures to get their original colors back or a program that could help? I don't know what else to do and these are really important to me. I don't know if this helps but I took them on my iphone 4

Photoshop.com or Google sites for photo editing

What you are experiencing is called overexposure.

Look at the light meter in your viewfinder and make sure that you are choosing the correct lens aperture and shutter speed.

If they look good on your camera's LCD, but look too bright on your computer monitor, you will have to make sure that you calibrate and profile your monitor from time to time (like once a month)

There's only a minimal amount you can do to overexposed images because there's no pixel information there. We call that being "blown out". Sorry to say, they more than likely can't be fixed.

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