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Dodge, Burn, Sponge, and Sharpen (old vs. new) - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Rethinking the Essentials
Dodge, Burn, Sponge, and Sharpen (old vs. new)
- Okay next, let's talk about some of Photoshop's Brush-based really powerful editing tools, so things like Dodge, Burn, and Sponge. Now I know what you're thinking. Those are tools you've tried before and they just didn't work. Those are probably places you've been trained to stay away from, but they've gone through a lot of changes over the years. They work fantastic. So I want to show you what the workflow is like. The first thing I'm gonna do before doing any of these, is I'm gonna dupe my layer. Any sort of Brush-based operation is gonna benefit from a layer-based workflow because I want to be able to turn the effects off or on, adjust the opacity. If it's heavy-handed I want to be able to tune it later. Brush-based tools are interacting with the pixels so they're inherently destructive. Okay, so let's start with the Dodge Tool. I'm take off this Protect Tones checkbox to show you how this used to work. Let's zoom in a little bit. The promise of the Dodge Tool is that it's going…
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