Photoshop Top 40 #26 - Dodge and Burn

[ArcanePath360]

Great tips! Thanks

[cnganga7]

HILARIOUS...."he's a vampire...good looking one too....how romantic'.....:D

[khozyla]

His face totally looks like toast now...Finally I can remember which tool is which. Thanks Deke!

[andykbh]

i would paint with black or white on seperate layer and change the blend mode to soft light and opacicty to 80%

then my image is unharmed, and it fills alot less then having 2 image in 1 file

[Andre227972]

Gay

[polisherci]

The guy looked better until his hair showed up.

[Mtthyman]

So you turned a cute guy into a rapist.... nice

[wra7h]

Why not just press ctrl + J

[testbug305]

Worst analogy ever

[abufonseca]

cool now i can make rape faces

[CGwonder]

I liked it before the lens flare. But great tutorial! I've never really been brave enough to play around in Photoshop that much but this countdown has taught me so much and I want to try it all out now!

[xx1yuna1xx]

this is exactly what i've been looking for!! thank you so much

[sharagim1]

it"s very hard to understand, almost there is no rule of this part of photoshop which is you show us,

[spljicna]

i just WASTED 13 minutes of my life...

[lg00d]

Thanks :) I wasn't so sure about the fiiinal result. but before he was blue, i thought it was a good finished piece :D Thanks for the tutorials :D

[DontTakeMyBubbles]

That dude wont stop staring at my soul..

[gaspik71]

Big up ya self you made some real great TUTZ

[laxsta627]

Thumbs up if you lost the staring contest.

[iAmWillJ91]

How the hell are you giving tips about photoshop? That end result was atrocious! My 10 year old could have done better.

[LionArtsOmsk]

lol it suxx

[CartoonEmpireHD]

Waaaaaaaaay to much talking lol

[momentodigital]

nice tip thanks!

[erizzaaaaa]

nice tip, but lousy end result... sorry, i just have to say that... it's really really really lousy, ugly

[PhantomLyric]

I absolutely hate the end product. it's very midiocre but I really like the techniques leading up to it. For those saying he talks too much. First off, he's the difference betwen some CS Nazi throwing together some time lapse vid and an actual instruector. Not nly does he inform yovu about every step. He does it in a way s that you will remember it. Some ppl like knowing why doing certiain things are useful. Some people like being given variety. From his instructions, one can make many effects.

[MaFioSo444]

you talk ttoo much stooop it

[MaFioSo444]

you talk tooo muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhh stooooooooooooooooooop ittttttttttttttt

[seomoz]

was that necessary?

[gbot430]

This is no "dodge and burn"... it's "destroy and destroy".

[BenivolentWarlock]

Dude! You destroyed his face

[BumbleBeat21]

@BenivolentWarlock I think thats what he meant to do.

[ihonlo]

TOO MUCH TALKING

and like others said:

- DB on a 50% gray layer to avoid working on the original photo

or use 2 curves adjustments and brush on it

this is one of the latest edition of photoshop and u still use these tools like it was the beginning of PS...update your technique man...

[Jobbyj37]

Good tutorial but your comentary is far too wordy. Less is more.

[artistNexile]

great advice. I don't usually have a problem with the burn tool being greyish but more of a reddish brown. I even noticed that he had a slightly crooked nose. I would love to see how you would fix that without the picture looking obviously distorted.

[smocoo]

you have cs4 then talk about cs4 not cs3 -.-

[zivaray]

I love these videos...but I swear this man talks TOO MUCH! He loves to hear himself talking. My God!!!

[a2zproductions]

Why not just dodge & burn on a luminocity layer?

[IrfanKahvedzic]

lame

[kalebyetter5]

what a waste of my time

[ksoft1]

hay you talk too much.. rather than working.

[swisselle]

I wonder why you don't use a layer with 50% gray (soft light) to dodge and burn to work not destrucitve on that image instead of taking snapshots and the history brush (thnx for the tip though)

[Bleistivt]

@swisselle

As for the new D&B tools in CS4 this wouldn't get you the same effect, but for CS3 and lower it's a great tip.

[BumbleBeat21]

@swisselle If it used a layer with soft light..then this video wouldn't be demonstrating dodge and burn,the 26th top PS tool,would it? -_-

[swisselle]

@BumbleBeat21

well.. .of COURSE it would... the only difference is if you use the dodge & burn-tools on a separate layer filled with 50% gray and in soft light mode, that you can work non destructive. If you want to undo something you simply take your brush with 50% gray and paint over that part and not taking snapshots and history brush to undo for corrections

it would just be non destructive if you use a separate layer in soft light mode and 50% gray

[watsonlance]

awesome video, the link to this are missing from your blog. As well as #42.