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This article is excerpted from Lewis Kemper's BetterPhoto.com course:
Photographer's Toolbox for Photoshop: Toolbox #1 - Exposure and Color CorrectionsYou may have used Photoshop�s Dodge and Burn tools in the past. These tools are very pixel destructive and can damage an image beyond repair. Fortunately, there is a far better method for applying Dodge and Burn. In the traditional black-and-white darkroom, local changes are instituted through burning and dodging. When you burn on a print, you are giving one area more exposure to the enlarger light, thus darkening that part of the print. Dodging is the opposite, holding back light from part of the print to make it lighter. In the traditional darkroom, this was done with a variety of tools, such as dodging wands and pieces of board, or your hands for dodging; and hands or boards with different size holes cut out for burning.
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In the digital darkroom, the tool is the same for both actions � a brush. But the blend mode of the adjustment layer differs. Just as we used the Screen and Multiply blend modes to lighten or darken an image (in the examples earlier in this lesson), we do the same here. But instead of applying the effect to the whole image, we fill the adjustment layer with black - to hide the effect - and then paint with white to show the effect in the areas we want. This gives us total control of the tonal range of the image, because we can set the opacity of the adjustment layer to reach a maximum burn or dodge - so we can never overdo an effect. This article is excerpted from Lewis Kemper's BetterPhoto.com course:
Photographer's Toolbox for Photoshop: Toolbox #1 - Exposure and Color Corrections
About Author / Instructor / Photographer, Lewis Kemper
 Lewis Kemper specializes in nature and wildlife photography, and has taught over 100 workshops and classes on landscape photography and/or the digital darkroom. He is a contributing editor to Outdoor Photographer and PC Photo magazines. His work is represented worldwide by Getty Images, Index Stock Imagery, Stock Connection, AFLO Japan and DRK Photo. Lewis's computer-enhanced images have been used in advertisements, cards, bookmarks and calendars. He is the photographer of Ancient Ancestors of the Southwest, published in 1996. He also runs a custom digital printing service to create fine art prints for photographers. Lewis has been honored to be included into Canon’s Explorers of Light program, which recognizes 78 of the country’s most influential photographers. Lewis also teaches five fun online photography courses here at BetterPhoto.com.
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