Deke's Techniques 299: Enhancing a Photo with Nondestructive Dodge and Burn
Deke uses black and white brushstrokes, opacity settings, and blend modes to create a dramatic but completely editable dodge and burn effect.
Deke uses black and white brushstrokes, opacity settings, and blend modes to create a dramatic but completely editable dodge and burn effect.
This week I show you how to turn an untreated studio photograph into a high key, high contrast image with ultra-black shadows but nary a clipped highlight.
Photoshop offers two tools that paint with luminance: The dodge tool paints in brightness, the burn tool paints in darkness. They're crazy useful, and they've gotten so much better in Photoshop CS4.
Adobe has announced Creative Suite 4 and its myriad applications. But for the moment, there's just one that matters, Photoshop CS4. Thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs all over the place? Deke knows and will tell you.
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