Dodge, burn & sponge tools (Photoshop)

Photoshop CC MasterClass: Be a Creative Professional Image Retouching & Manipulation in Photoshop
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Transcript

Using God's tool or Burn Tool or even sports tool can be enough to convert that image into that image. So let's see how we can be applying that. Here we have our background image. And it's always recommended to duplicate your image. Because in these tools, we're not going to be working on a separate layer, however, we're going to be working on our original layer. So we can have a copy from our original layer, and I'm going to be hiding that one.

Now moving to our tools, we have dots tool, and PR and dispose tool. Now let's maybe start using Burn Tool. And as you can see, guys, this one doesn't have sample from all layers option. So we have to apply that one directly on our layer. And also the tool will not be working on smart objects. So converting our layer into a Smart Object will be disabling our tool Now as you can see, we cannot be using our tool.

So let me undo that. And this by the way me in the image that few years ago when I was learning how to fly in a single engine aircraft. Anyway, let's go back to our tool we have our brush. Soft, as usual was most retouching tools. And we have our range set to shadows, we have shadows, mid tones and highlights, and we have exposure on 50%. And we have protect tones enabled.

And to see the difference between shadows and mid tones and highlights, let's first start to shadows. Shadows will be only affecting dark areas within your images. So for instance, that dashboard will be affected. However, if we go over that white area from the aircraft, it's not going to be affecting our image at all. So shadows will be affecting many dark areas, maybe something like that. You can see it's so intense and he mid tones will be affecting mid tones within your image.

So selecting that one mid tones can be affecting that area easily and also the sky. However, it's not going to be also affecting that white area. Now selecting highlights, which is going to be affecting that white area. Now we're getting a darker white as you can see, so let's undo that. And let's select mid tones. So let's start dimming that copilot because it's so vague and reflective as you can see, maybe reducing our price a bit.

I prefer applying the effect multiple times instead of doing it at once. So I have more Control overs effect and that's why I'm using only 50%. So back to our image here area. Now if you want to lock in any skin tones, make sure you have protect tones selected, that's how you will be slightly preserving some of the skin tones. And as usual, you can be enabling that one if you're using a bent tablet. So back to our image, let's maybe add some touches in here because we still have that glowing gloss effect in face area.

And let's even them these areas, then image Now let's select those tool, which is doing the opposite of that tool, it's going to be promoting your pixels. It also has met tones, shadows and highlights. So if we apply it as this or Neptune's, if we start applying that one on face area, it's gonna be lightning support within our image can be lightning report a bit to remove some of Burn Tool effect in here. Then we can be switching to highlights nodes that I'm using that one was only 20%. And maybe let's increase that reflection here as it looks nice. If we apply that on white, will be frightening that white area too much.

Now moving to sponsor tool, which is our third tool in here They all have the same shortcut, oh, you can be switching between them pressing Shift also now we are selecting those two pressing Shift Oh, we'll be switching between them. And same as well for heating tools, most of these tools can be pressing Shift j to switch between these tools. Now back to our sports tool, and this one is actually either desaturating your image or saturating your image. So now we have our mode on these saturates which can be turning some specific areas into a black and white or maybe bill colors. So now we have that one on 70%. We can start applying that our sky maybe within that image D saturating everything Except maybe for corporate area, and maybe that light can be them a bit as well.

Of course, you can be selecting saturate, to add maybe saturation within your image if you're going for that, or direction or that effect, however, I don't really like that. So I'm going to be pressing on do to get it maybe like that. We can keep using these three tools, although it will reach that result if we're going for a more intense effect. And that's all for these three tools. Moving to our next one.

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