September 2006
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Chapter 12: Drawing with Brushes, Shapes, and Other Tools 319
Dodging and Burning
Dodging and Burning
Like the Unsharp Mask, dodging and burning are old darkroom techniques to
enhance photos and emphasize particular areas. Dodging lightens shadows and
brings out the details hidden in them, and burning darkens highlights, bringing out
their details. Both tools live with the Sponge tool in the Toolbox, so you may have
run into them while you were using the Sponge.
You may think that since you have the Shadows/Highlights command, you don’t
have any need for these tools. But they still serve a useful purpose because they let
you make selective changes, rather than affecting the entire image the way Shad-
ows/Highlights does. Figure 12-13 gives an example of when you might need to
work on a particular area. Of course, you can also make a selection (see Chapter 5)
and then use Shadows/Highlights just on that area, which is another technique that
you may want to try as well as dodging and burning.
Figure 12-13:
Although the overall shadow/
highlight balance of this
photo is about right, the
detail in the face of this little
concert-goer is obscured by
backlighting and by her
father’s shadow. Careful
dodging and burning can
really improve these
problems, as you can see in
Figure 12-14.
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