![]() Get the Dodge tool (O) from the Toolbox (as shown here), and begin painting over the area you want to lighten (in our case, we'll start by painting over the mossy rock in frontâ”you can see the brush cursor near the front of it here). ![]() That way, if we don't like what we've done, we can lessen the effect (by lowering the layer's opacity) or undo it altogether by throwing the layer away. Instead, press Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) to duplicate the Background layer. Now, I don't use the Dodge and Burn tools directly on the original photo. Basically, we're just going to rearrange how the light is falling on our photo. Then, we're going to burn (darken) the sunlit trees further up the hill and the sky. In fact, almost the entire foreground is in shadow, so first, we're going to dodge (lighten) the rock and a little of the hillside. The thing I want people drawn to is the mossy rock in the foreground, but the brightest thing in the photo (the thing that draws your eye) is the sky and sunlit trees, which is where I don't want the viewer looking. However, if you're already in Photoshop and don't want to go back to Camera Raw, then here's how you'd do it: In the photo shown here, our light is kind of out of balance. Luckily, back in Photoshop CS5, Adobe updated these tools, which totally fixed the problem, and now it's safe to use the Dodge and Burn tools for lightening and darkening different parts of your image.īefore we dig into this, I just want to you let you know up front that I would normally do my dodging and burning inside Camera Raw using the Adjustment Brush (and do the lightening and darkening using only the Exposure slider). In older versions of Photoshop, when we wanted to dodge and burn, we had to jump through a bunch of hoops (creating special layers, and using blend modes and such), because the Dodge and Burn tools wereâ¦wellâ¦let's just say they weren't the best (and that's being kind). ![]() ![]() Excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop CC Book for Digital Photographers (2014 Release) ![]()
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