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 10/21/2004 06:55:19 PM · #51
Originally posted by mirdonamy:
Okay, silly question. I have PS, but the only dodging and burning I know how to do is in a true darkroom, not a digital one. Which tools do I use do to this? Is it easy to do? I know PS pretty well, and I have upgraded to CS now.


There exist the dodge and burn tools. I'm no expert with these. It takes a bit of practice.
 10/21/2004 07:01:01 PM · #52
ok . This is a link how to do thisBurn
 10/21/2004 07:28:30 PM · #53
You can ask Heida for more info on burning and dodging, she did great work with her images. I belive, two of her burned images won her a blue ribbon.

heida
 10/22/2004 01:04:16 AM · #54
oh, i think she did a tutorial once! I will go look for it!
 10/22/2004 09:27:43 AM · #55
Arielle,

I sent you a "fix" I found in a magazine (to the email address you have listed on your profile). PM me if you didn't receive it and I'll send it again or post it here, if you prefer.

Regards,

Owen Russell
 10/22/2004 10:48:18 AM · #56
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by mirdonamy:
Okay, silly question. I have PS, but the only dodging and burning I know how to do is in a true darkroom, not a digital one. Which tools do I use do to this? Is it easy to do? I know PS pretty well, and I have upgraded to CS now.


There exist the dodge and burn tools. I'm no expert with these. It takes a bit of practice.


The burn tool can be useful, but there is another alternative you can try.
1. Create a duplicate layer and call it burn.
2. Use the levels adjustment on the burn layer to get the bright areas to match the look that you want. Don't worry about the rest of the image going to dark.
3. Create a mask on your burn layer and let it hide everything.
4. Select the mask
5. Use a large soft brush to "burn" the areas of the image that you want to darken. This will turn the mask white, which lets the burn layer show through over the background layer. Set the opacity of the brush low so you can play with it and burn some areas more than others.

Message edited by author 2004-10-22 10:49:33.
 10/22/2004 10:58:04 AM · #57
You can also add a 50% grey layer, in 'overlay' mode (do new layer, overlay mode, fill with neutral colour)

Then if you paint on that layer - white dodges, black burns - the lighter the colour, the stronger the effect, and so on.
Once you've painted it, you can manipulate the dodge/ burn with filters, blurring it to soften and spread the effects, sharpening it, using curves to increase or decrease the contrast, blending it using the opacity adjustments and so on. Gives very fine control to dodging/ burning.

Also can be done on multiple layers to give more control.
 10/22/2004 11:06:14 AM · #58
Neat suggestions...and all very valid PS techniques.

Of course the other option is to use an ND gradient filter and you can get something like this straight out of the camera.

NDGrad Landscape
 10/22/2004 12:48:00 PM · #59
You are all so amazing and I can't thank you enough for the effort you have put into helping me! I love DPC!!!!!
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