burn and dodge technique on photoshop
Posted on 27 July 2009
Here is a technique called burn and doge on photoshop. I am using photoshop cs3 to burn and dodge this image in a none-distorted technique, what that means is, it will not ruin your picture or it won’t make your picture pixelated. It is also important to shoot your images in a RAW format and save it in a TIFF format so that your image will not be compress which will keep the quality of the image.
DO NOT USE THE BURN OR THE DODGE TOOL, those two tools will distort your image and you will not be able to get the info of the image back. Keep in mind, it’s important to not destroy your image, we want all the picture pixel information there.
Step 1. open up the image you want
step 2. go to layer–>new—–> layer—> then name your layer—> change color to gray—> change mode to “overlay”—>click on “fill with overlay-neutral color (50% gray)
step 3. use the paint tool to darken or lighten the area wanted —>use the black filter to darken image and use the white filter to lighten image——->use about 10% opacity while using the brush only, never use it at 100%
if you darken of lighten something too much, do not delete anything, just use the simple tool and then simple the gray and paint over it to normal again.
very easy but just a lot of paying attention and etc
Below is the before image
Below is the burn and dodge layer. Yes doesn’t it look a bit freaky? ehehe
Below is the finish product.
4 responses to burn and dodge technique on photoshop
I can’t tell the difference between the before and after picture. What is suppose to be different? Is it just raw in the before and tiff in the after? Sorry, but still learning…
she dodge the lips and the make up.. to make it a little darker…
I couldn’t tell either, must be a subtle change and also the first image looks good already, but a good technique to know, thanks.
I really see no differences. What is it? Point it out please.