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Adobe Photoshop Dodge Tool Tutorial Classes

Adobe Photoshop Dodge Tool


What is Dodge Tool?


The Dodge tool lighten the areas of the photo. These tools are based upon a typical darkroom method for managing direct exposure on specific locations of a print. Photographers hold back light to lighten an area on the print (dodging) or boost the exposure to darken locations on a print (burning). The more you paint over a location with the Dodge or Burn tool, the lighter or darker it comes to be. With the Photoshop Dodge and Burn tools, you can establish the size of the tool and its soft qualities individually by choosing a brush of the size as well as the hardness or softness you require.

You could additionally establish the Photoshop tools to run largely on shadow, midtones, and highlights. You can adjust the level of lightening and also dimming used by defining a direct exposure, too.

Keep in mind: Applying the Dodge tool to the background layer completely change the picture details. To modify your images nondestructively, deal with a duplicate layer.

dodge-tool-example

How to Use Dodge Tool?


  1. Select the Dodge tool.
  2. Pick a brush tip and set brush options in the option bar.
  3. In the options bar, pick among the following from the range menu:
    • Midtones: Changes the center variety of grays
    • Shadow: Changes the dark areas
    • Highlights: Adjustments the light areas
  4. Define the exposure for the Dodge tool or the Burn tool.
  5. Click the airbrush button to make use of the brush as an airbrush. Alternatively, select the Airbrush option in the Brush panel.
  6. Select the Protect Tones option to reduce clipping in the shadow and also highlights. This choice likewise tries to keep colors from changing hue.
  7. Drag over the part of the image you wish to lighten or darker.

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