You are Dodging and Burning all Wrong! TRY THIS!

In this video, I will show you a less traditional way to Dodge and Burn that produces incredible results! I also have some actions for you :)

►►► CHAPTERS ◄◄◄

00:00 Intro
00:54 History and Background of DB
02:04 Soft Light Explained
02:41 Linear Light Explained
05:21 Why Linear Light is Better
06:27 Practical Application
08:20 Blend-If Meets D&B
09:32 The Actions
11:26 The Actions With MyPanel
11:41 Linear Light Effectiveness
11:52 Get the Actions
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[Ronin]

WOW! GAME CHANGER! I cannot tell you how often I have struggled with skin tones after I dodge and burn on the traditional gray layer in Soft Light. You are absolutely correct. Color do get over saturated easily. I often would put the blend mode to Luminosity in hopes that the color stay true or reduce the flow of the dodge tool. Your explanation and examples were fantastic. This is exactly what I needed. No one has even taught how Linear Light affects photos (except to sharpen in High Pass). Thank you for this. Anxious to try it out now.

[moritzathaher]

Yeah, our problem has been resolved, thank you..

[freetibet]

Great tutorial, Blake! Yes Linear Light is a superior blend mode for this kind of work. For absolute colour-control I use the Luminosity blend mode on a Curves adjustment instead of a 50 % filled layer nowadays. Not only do I avoid any colour-shift that way but I also get a total control over local contrast with the Curve at the same time! On top of that the Curve adjustment protects the absolute blacks and whites from clipping in the histogram ( as long as the white and black points are untouched in the Curve tool ). This way I can fine-tune my curve to make sure my “Burning” is going to have less or more contrast, -and the same goes for the “Dodging” of course. Would you agree?

[JohnBerthoty]

Excellent technique. And the explanation is a level up. Thanks for this

[PaulTimlett]

Those actions are fantastic. Dodging and burning this way gives a much more natural effect.

[marcdwonn]

You have some genius tutorials on your channel, this longtime Photoshop user is very impressed! Subscribed.

[sjvanzyl]

Wow and all these years I thought I was just not great at it, the colour shifts drove me nuts. I cant believe this is such an effective and easy fix. Thank you Blake

[tinagiles]

Thank you! Very quick and simple way to deal with D&B!

[Lu-Heringer]

P E R F E C T! I started to use these settings today and will use them forever. Thanks for the action freebie :)

[benjaminthomas]

Excellent tutorial again since using this method I found by duplicating layers at different strengths in Linear light I can adjust specific areas for the best results

[helloianzakharov]

Tricks I have learned from your channel are the real professional game changer things 👌🏻

[mardayvirin]

Thank you for another great tutorial and the actions. Cheers

[Rad_Travels]

An excellent episode. Thanks for the Actions.

[nakmorgan]

You got a subscriber. I love your explanation, patience, and accuracy in teaching. Really great job.

[carlosread]

I am surprised. I will try it, and probably adopt this method from now on, because I have noticed the extra saturation that results of dodging and burning the traditional way. Thanks a lot!

[louisedanforth]

I wish Youtube would allow me to like this more than one time. Simply awesome!! Thank you so much. Can't wait to check out more tutorials and the panel as well.

[johnlm]

Great Video again, Between this and the Diamond Gradient action, enjoying photoshop again.

[kevingoodchild]

thats a brilliant tutorial, thanks indeed Blake

[davidreichel]

I'm using these actions on images from an outdoor portrait shoot -- awesome results and massive time-saver! Thank you Blake.

[stephenmorris]

Just saying watching your video finding it very interesting and shall give it a try thankyou