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Five ways to bump local exposure without dodging

Oct 23, 2018 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Dodging is a good way to draw attention to the subject in your image. However, it comes with certain drawbacks, and sometimes alternative methods are a better solution. In this video, Jonathan Lee Martin gives you five alternatives to dodging that will make your subject pop without harming your image.

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A guide on how to approach dodge and burn, what are you trying to fix?

Mar 5, 2017 by Joseph Parry 1 Comment
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Dodging and Burning images is something that I see every day in photography and it seems to have two purposes: Artistic character and removing luminosity based distractions.

Today I’m going to be talking about the latter, removing luminosity based distractions. I’m going to assume you already know how to do dodge and burn (and if not you should check this tutorial), so we’ll skip the baby steps and jump straight ahead to the point of the article!

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Retouching Essentials: Are You Having Color Issues When Dodging & Burning? This Might Be The Reason

May 15, 2015 by Conny Wallstrom Add Comment
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Many of the tools inside of Photoshop use various color models and techniques to alter color. If you are not familiar with them you might be creating a lot of trouble for yourself.

A lot of retouching tutorials online will teach you to use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with -100 saturation to remove the color information from an image (this should eliminate color distractions when Dodging and burning). If you are following this advice, then you are working with Lightness in the HSL color model, which is very different from how our eyes perceive color…

Here is a quick example why it is a bad idea:

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An Exercise In Dodge & Burn: Turning A Golf Ball Into A Pingpong Ball

Jan 14, 2015 by Stefan Kohler 9 Comments
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Dodge & Burn (fondly called D&B) are one of the simplest and most powerful techniques that you can use in retouching. One of the interesting uses of D&B is the answer to the following question: “How can I get blemishes off my model?”.

If you break this down to the basic components this is a very easy question to answer.

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