Shadow and Highlight, How to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop from PhotoshopCAFE leverages what you already know about Photoshop and allows you to create professional-looking visuals. Colin Smith has extensive experience and provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to create professional photos. He highlights his techniques such as dodging and burning, which is painting with shadow and light.
Colin opens up new possibilities with powerful brush and adjustment tools. He explains that the three main reasons to dodge and burn are to lead the viewer's eye with darks or lights, to bring out details in photos, and to add depth and dimension. The tutorial is two and a half hours and teaches you all three of these methods. He takes the mystery out of where to dodge and where to burn a photo for maximum results.
This is for photographers and designers who want to use what they already know and start improving their visuals as soon as they begin the tutorial. These tips will work in any version of Photoshop. All lesson files are included.
- Shading Basics
- Layer Setup
- Brush Setup
- Jump headfirst into a project and learn the workflow, start to finish
- Strategies for adding shadow and where to highlight
- Set the overall tone and mood for the image
- The shadows define and simplify the shapes
- Highlights force areas towards the viewers eye and give them life
- Make your photos look 3D
- Carve out muscles and add separation
- Smooth out the body shape
- Make muscles look massive and flatten out other areas
- Smoothen out skin tones without blurring
- Enhance certain features, while diminishing others
- A natural way to light up a face and define the shape of facial features
- How to dodge and burn, directly in Lightroom and Camera RAW
- Non-destructive shadow and highlight on a RAW file
- Do local adjustments in ACR and Lightroom
- Use adjustment layers, masks, and curves to create shadow and light
- Create different tone curves and apply them exactly where you want
- Using inverted layer masks to paint shadow and light
- Fast and non-destructive, but giving you pinpoint accuracy
- Relight a photography and create a dramatic photo with shadow and light
- Completely redefine the lighting of a photograph
- Change the mood and feel of a photo
- Faking lighting in Photoshop
- Use in camera bracketed exposures to dodge and burn with dynamic range
- Extend the details in your image and paint in HDR, without HDR, or with the HDR look
- Masking and blending multiple exposures to add more natural detail with less noise