DIY Photography

Your one stop shop for everything photo-video

  • News
  • Inspiration
  • Reviews
  • Tutorials
  • DIY
  • Gear
Search

Submit A Story

Use Color Burn and Color Dodge to quickly add color and contrast to your photos

Jan 18, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment

  • Share
  • Tweet
  • Flipboard
  • WhatsApp

If you want to add both contrast and a punch of color to your photos Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect shows you a technique you might want to try out. In this video, he teaches you how to use Color Burn and Color Dodge blending modes together to quickly boost contrast and color at the same time.

Start by opening your image in Photoshop. Create two Hue/Saturation adjustment layers, which you will set to two different blending modes.

You don’t have to change Hue, Saturation or Lightness, at least for now. Just set one layer to Color Burn and the other to Color Dodge blending modes. You’ll get a funky-looking image, but you need to decrease the Fill of both layers until you end up with just a hint of contrast and color.

When you’ve set the blending modes and decreased the fill of the layers, you can also play with Hue, Saturation, and Brightness to change the look of the image further. It takes literally a few minutes to apply these changes, so I made a couple of examples to show you what it looks like:

Make sure to watch the video for more examples, and if you want to learn more about Photoshop’s blending modes, on this link you’ll find a great in-depth explanation.

[Create Colorful Contrast with 2 Special Blend Modes! | PiXimperfect]

FIND THIS INTERESTING? SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS!

  • Share
  • Tweet
  • Flipboard
  • WhatsApp

Related posts:

2 quick ways to add contrast without touching the contrast slider How to properly dodge and burn your way to stunning landscape photos Dodge & Burn – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility Fixing discolouration during the dodge & burn retouch

Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: blending modes, color, Photoshop, PiXimperfect, Unmesh Dinda

Dunja Djudjic: from diyphotography.net

About Dunja Djudjic

Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

« Take a look behind the scenes and watch the breakdown of this magical Christmas film
A quick tip to increase your discoverability on Instagram »

Submit A Story

Get our FREE Lighting Book

DIYP lighting book cover

* download requires newsletter signup

Recent Comments

Free Resources

Advanced lighting book

Learn photography

Recent Posts

  • NASA reveals five photos of space objects invisible to human eye
  • Tamron’s 17-50mm f/4 Di III VXD lens ships in October
  • Facebook now lets you (legally) have multiple profiles
  • A closer look at Sigma’s new Fuji X-mount lenses
  • Everything you need to know before you start film photography

Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.netUdi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

Alex Baker: from diyphotography.netAlex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe

David Williams: from diyphotography.netDave Williams is an accomplished travel photographer, writer, and best-selling author from the UK. He is also a photography educator and published Aurora expert. Dave has traveled extensively in recent years, capturing stunning images from around the world in a modified van. His work has been featured in various publications and he has worked with notable brands such as Skoda, EE, Boeing, Huawei, Microsoft, BMW, Conde Nast, Electronic Arts, Discovery, BBC, The Guardian, ESPN, NBC, and many others.

John Aldred: from diyphotography.netJohn Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.

Dunja Djudjic: from diyphotography.netDunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

Copyright © DIYPhotography 2006 - 2023 | About | Contact | Advertise | Write for DIYP | Full Disclosure | Privacy Policy