Dodge & Burn | Bread & Butter
1 min readAug 27, 2018
Dodge and burn are my “besties!”
Is that weird?
This technique is one of the oldest, most versatile and arguably the most powerful techniques that exists in high-end photo retouching.
When done properly, it’s non-destructive and can fix, shape, smooth and completely change the way an image looks.
Sometimes for the better; sometimes, ehh.. not so much.
The concept is simple, the ways you can apply it are limitless, and in this quick video I will show why it’s useful to know in a pinch.
Practice makes perfect and there are no shortcuts to learning this. I know — I’m sorry.