How to Dodge & Burn in Photoshop | Day 17

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Day 17 of 30 Days of Photoshop covers one of the most powerful and common techniques in your toolkit: Dodge and Burn. Learn how to use Dodging and Burning to recover information from your highlights and shadows, enhance the contrast in your photo, and give your light a more three dimensional look.

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[WeeklyWhiskers]

What's really been helpful is not only learning a new technique for each lesson, but also using the past 16 lesson's techniques to reinforce what's already been taught. Even though the month-long lessons were already created and have been loaded in the cue in advance, thank you again Aaron for planning well enough to help many of us newcomers to PS.

[CarlyTho]

Came back to watch this one again! Thank you!

[LarryFasnacht]

I just stumbled onto this series. Wow. So much work you’ve put into these videos and FREE! Amazing. I love watching you and you are a super good teacher. Thank you for doing

[ronmortimer]

Can't believe how such seemingly small changes applied to the right areas make such a big difference to the final photo. Using curves adj layers too. Beats my method of just painting positive or negative exposure directly on the image. You're the pro Aaron! :)

[rp]

So this dodging and burning, thank you so very much...

[simomonster]

Love this techniques of using curves to paint, dodge and bring life to a dull picture by bringing out shadows, details and creating an appealing contrast just by masques and brushes and using blend if . interesting . Thank you Aaron

[VkterE]

Aaron you and your team are amazing. You deserve an award if you haven’t already. THANK YOU

[ahmadzaatiti]

I miss you Aaron
I miss yout tutorials
Realy happy to see you again ❤🤗

[antonoat]

Huge thumbs up Aaron, I've never seen this demonstrated so clearly before, thank you.

[mmhmumin]

The Dodge tool and the Burn tool lighten or darken areas of the image. end of the story.

Thanks Aaron

[prolapsha]

and this is for free omg. Thank you very much Aaron!

[Tunesmithnw]

Thank you! Not sure how I ever got by before I watched this.

[akashsarkar]

I thought I learnt dodge & burning from ur previous video where u used a model but when I tried I couldn't do I messed up with Blend If option at last I end up saying I can't do dodging & burning to create more dynamic effect for a photo

[harishnetam]

so far i'm loving the course, you're an amazing teacher!!

[spunkispirits]

Excellent, thank you. I had no idea about Blend If.

[Mrformula]

Thank you another fantastic video. Saving all these videos for later.

[caprimungeam]

Aaron, The 30 Days of Photoshop are Amazing! I am phlearing so much!

One comment; because there us an into video the numbering and keeping track of downloads per day are off creating frustrating and confusion. Not so good for a phlearning environment 😉

[jc_compto]

Thank you for a wonderful tutorial! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

[dennisgicheru]

This is a powerful technique, thanks for sharing

[nickshepherd]

Another excellent video in the series. THANK YOU!