How to Dodge and Burn Nondestructively in Photoshop

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hello and welcome to Danny's tips in

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this episode you'll learn one of the

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most popular retouching techniques that

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can be used in landscape photography

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portrait photography architecture and

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more it's called dodging and burning and

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with this technique you can selectively

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choose which area of your photo should

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be brighter or darker when used

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correctly you can completely transform

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your photos photographers use this

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technique to get your landscape photos a

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dramatic look you can even use it to

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contours a person's face simply by

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changing you lighting there's a lot more

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you can do with this technique and in

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this tutorial you'll learn how to dodge

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and burn non-destructively and you'll

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also learn how to combine it with

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another technique called luminosity

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masking or even better results so if

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you're interested keep watching to find

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out how it's done

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you can find a Dodge and burn tool in

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the toolbar by clicking and holding on

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this button here let's start with the

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Dodge tool in fact you probably never

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need to use the burn tool and you'll see

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why later but for now we're going to

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stick with the Dodge tool and quickly go

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over all of its important settings first

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duplicate the layer by pressing ctrl or

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command J so you have the original image

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as a backup this is the most common way

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beginners student on destructive editing

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and technically it is non-destructive

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but it's not the best way of doing it

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we're just starting off with this site

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you can learn how the tools work and

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then after you'll learn a better way of

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doing it so when you're dodging is

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basically a brush that will brighten the

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air as you paint in when you're burning

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is doing the opposite which is darkening

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the areas and by combining v2 you can

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enhance your photo by manipulating

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delighting for example in this image we

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can burn the foreground which will dim

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it and give more focus to the bright

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area and detox center we can then

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selectively dodge the areas that we want

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to brighten back up let's start with

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these settings in the options bar if you

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can change the brush size and hardness

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by clicking here 40 brush size most

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people just set it by pressing the left

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and right square bracket keys on your

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keyboard you'll be changing your brush

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size a lot so it's more efficient this

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way do brush hardness is basically the

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sharpness of the edge for example if you

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set it to a hundred percent you'll get

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really sharp and hard edges like this if

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you set it to zero percent it will be

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really soft and it's also safer to use

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if you want to change your brush

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hardness just hold the shift key while

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pressing key left or right square

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bracket keys this button here in the

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options bar will bring up the brush

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panel one thing that you should do is to

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remove the spacing option I'm going to

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set my brush hardness to one hundred

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percent so you can see what's happening

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right now when I paint a line it appears

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choppy but in the brush panel simply

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disable these facing option and now when

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you paint it should be smooth like this

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okay so that's the brush settings next

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in the option bar is deranged it lets

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you choose the tonal range that your

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brush water effect for example if we set

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it to shadows we can dodge this area

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here and I'll affect more of the dark

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areas and less of the light areas the

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exposure setting is pretty much to brush

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opacity so the higher the number the

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stronger the effect will be I usually

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like to keep it around fifty percent or

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less because if you want a stronger

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effect you can always just paint over

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the same area again but to change the

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setting on the fly just press the number

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key on your keyboard so typing 25 will

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set it to twenty-five percent the other

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benefit of using a lower exposure

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setting is that you can use a feature

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called build up which is this button

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right here here's how it works so with

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the build-up option turned off when you

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paint a stroke like this it's all one

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consistent strange when you turn on

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build up you can pause out a spot and

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the longer you stay here the stronger

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the effect will be next up is the

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protect tones option with this enable it

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will preserve the hue and some of the

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tones so it's great for photographs if

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you're doing stuff like digital

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paintings you might want to turn it off

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and finally the last button here only

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matters if you're using a

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pressure-sensitive pen instead of a

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mouse for example a microsoft surface

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tablet or a Wacom Intuos pen tablet this

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option will make it set when you press

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down harder with your pen instead of

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increasing the strength it'll increase

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the size instead so now that you know

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all of these settings you can start

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painting and see how it works the final

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tip I want to give you is that instead

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of switching to it burn tool you can

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just hold the alt or option key instead

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it's much easier and faster than

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switching to burn tool and the other

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bonus is that your brush settings will

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stay the same so that's how you use the

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dodge and burn tools but the problem

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with this is that even though this is

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technically non-destructive editing

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because you have it on a separate layer

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and you have the original image as a

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backup it's not what I would call Foley

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non-destructive because the more you

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dodge and burn back and forth on a

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particular spot the lower the image

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quality will get so over time this is

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what destructive to your image quality

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plus you can't really see what you're

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doing there's a better way of dodging

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and burning and it is to do it on a

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separate later but this layer isn't your

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photo it's just a plain gray layer it's

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a much better way to dodge and burn and

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you should be using this method whenever

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you can here's how it works I'm going to

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delete this layer because we don't need

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it anymore and then I'm going to create

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a new layer press shift backspace to

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bring up the fill tool select fifty

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percent gray from the drop-down menu and

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then click ok if we dodge and burn on

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this layer yo Sita is basically creating

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lighter and darker spots to make this

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layer blend in with your photo set the

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blending mode to either soft light or

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overlay here's a comparison between

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using these soft light and overlay

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blending modes soft light is safer and

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the results are closer to what the Dodge

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and burn tools typically do but for

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other photos like landscapes sometimes

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setting it to overlay will give you

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better colors using this method of

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dodging and burning is a double-edged

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sword because while you can do so much

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more the tools don't work the same way

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first disable de protect home option

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this is because you're now painting our

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gray layer and there's no tones to

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protect the other one is arranged

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setting just leave at mid-tones again

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you're painting on a gray layer and it's

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taking the tonal information from your

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current dodging and burning layer not

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the tonal information from your actual

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photo so now that we got that out of the

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way let's talk about the good stuff so

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as you're dodging and burning you can

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temporarily set the blending mode to

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normal to see what your layer looks like

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you can also use a brush tool and softly

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dodging and burning tools you can change

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the layer opacity or even use the levels

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tool by pressing ctrl or command L this

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tool is great for changing the

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brightness and contrast of your layer so

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if you want a stronger effect then you

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can increase the contrast by striking

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the two outer slider towards the middle

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like this

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and then adjusting the brightness so

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that's how you dodge and burn on a

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separate layer next I'm going to show

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you how to combine you're dodging and

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burning with a luminosity masks

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luminosity masking is basically using

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your photo as a layer mask so what this

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does is it mixer layer visible according

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to the brightness values of your photo

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there's two ways to do luminosity

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masking one is with a layer style and

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the other with swiffer layer mask if you

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want to learn more about luminosity

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masking then click here to watch this

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video if you already know how to do

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luminosity masking then you can do it

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with the layer style method but for this

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tutorial I will be showing it with the

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layer mask method so you can see what's

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happening and it's also easier to

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understand for beginners to start click

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on the add layer mask button in the

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layers panel make sure that you have the

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layer mask selected and not the layer

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itself it should have a white outline

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around it next go to image apply image

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this tool lets you place any layer into

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your current layer or layer mask in the

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drop down menu select the layer with

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your photo for us it's the background

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layer set the blending mode to either

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multiply or normal make sure that the

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opacity is a hundred percent then click

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ok now we're using a photo as a layer

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mask hold the alt or option key and then

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click on the layer mask to see how it

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looks so how it works is that the bright

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areas are where the layers will be more

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visible the dark areas are where it's

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less visible if we invert the layer mask

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by pressing ctrl or command I ill do the

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opposite so right now my layer is more

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visible in the dark areas which is what

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I want for my image you can also use the

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levels tool by pressing ctrl or command

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L and then you can adjust the contrast

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and brightness so if I drag you to outer

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sliders towards the middle like this

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it'll increase the contrast and then I

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can tweet d brightness

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so after the adjustment it looks much

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better the layer will be visible in

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these white areas here but it won't be

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visible in the bright area of the photo

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here now when we dodge and burn the

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layer it will automatically mask itself

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based on the brightness values of your

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photo if you're doing luminosity masking

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you might need to have more than one of

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these dodging and burning layers to

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target different tonal areas here are

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some before-and-after examples of

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dodging and burning

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hey guys thanks for watching this video

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there's a tip that I forgot to add and

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that is that a lot of times when you're

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dodging and burning you'll typically

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have spots are way too strong and you

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need to tone it down so to do that just

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paint over it with your brush tool with

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a 50-percent gray color I typically like

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to set my brush opacity to around ten or

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twenty percent and just keep painting

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over a spot until it looks the way that

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you wanted to anyways thanks for

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subscribing to my channel guys I really

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appreciate it I'm going to be making

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more videos for you guys so stay tuned