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Photoshop: Dodge and Burn

Lesson 23 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop

Jared Platt

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23. Photoshop: Dodge and Burn

Learn how to create realistic depth and correct highlights and shadows in your photo. Jared shows you how to make a burn layer and use the dodge and burn tool.

Lesson Info

Photoshop: Dodge and Burn

So now I have a rock down there but the foreground doesn't need to be bright it doesn't. All it just needs to be is a hint of rocks cause remember that rock is casting a shadow. So at this point what we wanna do is we want to create a burn layer. You just simply click on the layer menu options. So these are called layers. I'm gonna click on this little set of drop down menus right here on the layer and I'm gonna create a new layer. When I create the layer I'm gonna create a mode called Soft Light and I'm gonna fill it with 50% gray. Just like that, and I'm gonna hit okay. So now I have a layer that's just gray. And anytime I paint something darker than gray it's gonna be a burn and anything I make that's lighter than gray it's gonna be a dodge or it's gonna brighten up the photograph. So I've got a burn layer now and I'm gonna go over to my burn dodge tool. Which is this thing that looks like a hand and click on that. And now I'm in the burn mode and I can choose whether I wanna choose...

highlights. I wanna burn highlights, midtones or shadows. So we'll start with the midtones. And we're just gonna start burning in this rock so that it's not quite so bright. And we can even do a little bit on that bush too cause we don't need it to be very bright. And I'm gonna burn in on this rock a little bit as well. And even down here under this bush. This bush over here doesn't need to be all that bright as well. So I'm just kinda burning down all of this area that I don't want. And this is at 30%. So it takes a little while to burn it down. And then I can go into the shadows cause it's only burning the shadows or the highlights or the or the midtones, depending on what you choose. And as we burn this down, then it becomes less obvious that that's a manufactured rock. And it looks pretty dang good. The darker I make this the more natural it'll feel.

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