You can then selectively turn on layers to see how your work is progressing. Using layers give you the flexibility to change opacity, and to group your different layers into folders. It becomes artistic like creating a painting, and you have more freedom to be flexible. So instead of the pre-made tools I create my own using layers and the brush tool. I like to have more control when I work on my images. I don’t use these for my dodging and burning. You may have noticed in Photoshop’s Toolbar, a couple of tools called Dodge and Burn. Although you can get quite dramatic results if that’s the mood you’re going for. The look has been exaggerated so you can see the changes, normally dodging and burning is more subtle than this example. Nothing was changed in this photo other than adding tonality by dodging and burning. The snow has texture and dimension, and the small door and window are the clear center of interest. The second image has more drama, more of a moody feel. Using this method, photographers or retouch artists could control with great accuracy the developing process to ensure that their prints displayed the full range of tonal values needed to make the photograph pop.įinal image, with dodging and burning applied – we are drawn by light to the door. The photographer could also dodge the light – hold it back from the paper – allowing that part of the photo to remain less developed or lighter than the non-dodged area. This was known as “burning in” which made these parts of the photo darker. Photographers used simple darkroom tools to either allow more light from the developer machine to reach certain parts of the light sensitive photographic paper. Originally, dodging and burning was used in the traditional darkroom, to retouch film to enhance highlights, and deepen shadows on photographic prints. First, though, let’s make sure we all know what dodging and burning is.
I’ll save another article for you about using the technique for your color images.
This tutorial with show you how I do dodging and burning in Photoshop, for black and white images. With all the complicated plugins and post-processing procedures you have at your disposal, you won’t get any better bang for the buck than creative dodging and burning. They used it because it is powerful and simple and still is to this day. It was (and still is) one of the most common ways of enhancing film images in the darkroom, and everyone from Ansel Adams to Imogen Cunningham used it. With the huge assortment of software and plugins you have at your disposal these days, the photo processing technique of burning and dodging is practically ancient.
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