Comments on: Demo: Non-Destructive Burn/Dodge in Photoshop

By: Jim Hoerricks

Jim Hoerricks — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:05:42 +0000

http://forensicphotoshop.blogspot.com/2007/11/non-destructive-dodge-and-burn.html – nice tip that I wrote about 5 years ago. :)

By: Joe Decker

Joe Decker — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:48:01 +0000

Ahhh, an oldie but a goodie.

- Because the dodging and burning is kept on a separate mask, if you’ve painted it with too hard-edged a brush in some location you can simply blur that part of the dodge/burn area to smooth out the effect

- You can make color adjustments, not just tonal adjustments precisely the same way. A little warming here or there, for example

- You can get a similar but gentler effect with “soft light” as the blending mode

By: polyxo

polyxo — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:34:16 +0000

Fwitw -there’s a more straightforward way to do the same which saves some clicks:
Create new layer with dialog (ctrl+shift+n), set to overlay here and check the neutral colour-checkbox.

By: Bojan

Bojan — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:41:31 +0000

What if you want to remove dodging and burning from non-detsructive layer above, lets say you painted on some area where you did not wanted? When you want to clear or to remove dodging or burning you have painted hold down Alt key, click on eyeball on the left side of layer filled with 50% Gray and only that layer will stay visible on your screen while other layers will be temporary hidden. Click the Foreground color (upper color selection box in the toolbox) on the left side of screen to open Color Picker (Foreground Color) dialog and sample neutral gray color from image area where you have layer with 50% Gray displayed, be careful to not sample painted area.
More details and screenshots here http://adobephotoshopsecrets.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-work-non-destructively-in.html (Non-destructive dodging and burning).

By: Allen Cobb

Allen Cobb — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 04:19:53 +0000

The “sample all layers” setting gives this capability, in one way or another, to a lot of retouching tools. I always do my healing brush work on a new blank layer (no need for 50% grey fill), and doing it this way also makes it easy to toggle the whole “type” of retouch operation on and off in one click. Nice concise tut, too.

By: Eric "TipSquirrel" Renno

Eric "TipSquirrel" Renno — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:36:18 +0000

Thank you Sir