Dodge

Dodge and Burn Tools
Figure 1: Dodge and Burn Adjustments
The Dodge and Burn tools were designed specifically to lighten and darken tones in an image.

Dodge tool
Used to darken areas of an image or print. The Dodge tool's name comes from the traditional photographer's method of reducing the amount of light made available when exposing the film to get the picture.
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Dodge/Burn (optional)
Although Photoshop does have dodge and burn tools, I find them very hard to use. Instead, I add a Levels Adjustment layer, and mask in shifts in white and black points to darken or lighten areas.

Dodge - To lighten a small area of the picture in an image editing software or a darkroom.

Dodge ( Dodging )
In photographic printing, to dodge a print is to reduce the exposure in a section of the image to make that area lighter. Compare this to the technique of burning.

Dodge tool. For lightening areas in a digital image. See also Burn.

Dodge & Burn brushes are very instrumental for correcting unevenness of the skin (such as cellulite) without any loss of texture. Their use is also very effective for localized enhancement of dimensional appearance of a subject's form.

4. Dodge and Burn - making parts of the image darker or lighter.
6. Cropping - zooming in on one part to make a better composition.

STEP 2: Dodge Tool - When I worked in the darkroom, I loved to locally control the density of specific areas on the print by dodging and burning.

18 The Dodge, burn and sponge tools are interesting tools with brush characteristics; Dodging an image turns it lighter in a part of the image. Burning the image makes the image darker.

The classic Dodge & Burn tools manipulate the local contrast of images.

Burned and dodged for emphasis.
I did this with adjustment layer masks in Photoshop, but you can do this selective lighting and darkening in most software, as well as a real darkroom. Want to know what made Ansel Adams who he was?

Dodging As discussed before in contact printing, you may often find it necessary to dodge or hold back some parts of images to produce the best print.

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Burning and Dodging: Photoshop actually has burn and dodge tools available in the main tool box. The dodge tool looks like the magnification tool except it is black. The burn tool looks like a hand with the fingers together.

In order to lighten, select the Dodge Tool. To darken, use the Burn Tool. If you want a way to keep straight which is which and can't remember how traditional printers did this in the darkroom, just visualize that burning things turns them black.

To put the final touches on an image, I slightly dodge and burn selective areas. This can be done in two different ways. I sometimes dodge and burn by hand with a soft brush and paint in the effects.

Choose the Burn tool (Shortcut "O", if you still don't see it, click and hold the Dodge tool and select Burn tool from the list). Put the brush size to 70px, the Exposure to 15% to over-do the burning and the Range to Highlights.

Consequently, the only post- processing needed, once the image was stitched, was to very lightly use the dodge tool to lighten the darker trunks, and then apply a low-level ‘unsharp mask’ to the image to ensure a slick final print.

Duplicate the "neg" twice, set blend mode to Color Dodge on the first one, and Soft Light on the second one. Add a Curves layer to control contrast, and a Hue-Lightness-Saturation layer with Colorize to correct the "cold" look.

But I dodged the rain, it started coming down in torrents just as I got back in the car. Despite the shortened hike, I did manage to capture some of what is going on in the woods at the moment.

Dodge/Burn Tools: Similar to traditional darkroom, dodging lightens and burning darkens parts of the image.
Hue/Saturation: Hue allows you to adjust the color and saturation controls richness or intensity.
Variations.

Another favorite tool is a nondestructive dodge and burn layer. For this, make a new blank layer and change the Blend mode to Soft Light. Then paint directly on that layer with black or white; black darkens and white lightens.

In the old darkroom days, the only choice the photographer had was to dodge or burn.

When you are dealing with different clients at the same time, chances are that you may easily get dodged when it comes down to the financial matters. Most of this dodging happens when certain confusion arises between the two parties.

Photoshop® Elements 5.0 and later versions can do dodge and burn. Dodge is used to lighten dark areas of a photograph and reveal details. Burn is used to darken light areas of a photograph.
Use the Camera Brain to help reproduce what you visualized! ...

Can I burn or dodge something? What does this print need, and how do I get there? What would it take to make this thing come alive? Having some high-quality prints on hand is one way to learn this, having the afore-mentioned mentor is another.

I know it's easy to see someone else with a camera and quickly try to dodge out of the way equipped with every excuse in the book (My hair's a mess! Pictures make me look fat! I'm dressed like a bum!).

generally i feel pretty comfortable with my 35mm but do find that i need to dodge and burn.

This is a traditional darkroom technique that works effectively in Photoshop. You can dodge and burn by hand, but for a more even effect, ...

This is a method of selectively adding or subtracting exposure in areas of the print. The terms burning and dodging are actually synonymous, as burning and area simultaneously dodges another area, but it's really just symantics.

In effect, the shadows are dodged and the highlights burn in, thus automatically reducing the contrast. Sometimes partial reversal occurs, as in ordinary solarization, especially when the print is given a second exposure while under the enlarger.

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