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A black and grey charger with skulls in the background and grunge design.
For some reason, people go a funny shade of green when one starts talking about Dodging and Burning …. nothing to fear at all. I’ve ju…
For some reason, people go a funny shade of green when one starts talking about Dodging and Burning …. nothing to fear at all. I’ve just realised that I haven’t got any little images to insert in this tutorial …. I’ll make them later. Dodging and Burning is not difficult at all, when you realise that 20 low opacity strokes are better than one huge Dodge or Burn stroke. D&B is used to create precise shadow/highlight and can certainly add enormous amounts of lift/punch to an image. Most people would duplicate the layer to do some D&B on, and this is fine until you are working on a 10/15/20mb file and everytime you duplicate the layer the image size doubles. Unless you have a huge amount of RAM, your computer will slow down and sometimes even freeze. Is there a solution …. of course there is, its photoshop. So you’ve been working on an image, and naturally taken snapshots along the way. Now you decide that you would like to do some D&B. Click on the new layer icon on the bottom of the layers palette. Go to Edit>Fill>50%gray>click ok and that’s it LOL, nah, only kidding. Change the blend mode of this layer to soft light. Go grab the Burn tool (example), select whether you want to burn the highlights, midtones or shadows from the top menu and I would suggest quite strongly that you use a very low opacity – around 10% to start out with. I usually use a very soft brush for this and set the size according to what I’m going to be doing. The sheer beauty of using the 50% gray layer set to soft light is that you can simply turn the layer on and off to view your progress – don’t like what you’ve done … trash it and start again. Use exactly the same principle for the Dodge tool. Yet another way to D&B. Click on the new layer icon on the bottom of the layers palette, change the blend mode to soft light (without filling it with 50% gray), select your brush tool and make sure the foreground colour is set to black. Lower your brush opacity in the top menu bar to round about 10% again and start brushing where you want to Burn (darken) the area. Do exactly the same thing, only with white as the foreground colour to do some Dodging (lighten). Yet another interesting take on the above is that you can D&B with colours. Try it … grab your f/ground colour as red (example), check the opacity is down and Dodge or Burn away with that colour. Perhaps even pick a dark red (example) from the image itself to use as the Burn colour. Have fun, and don’t be afraid to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in. The sheer joy of photoshop is all the fun you can have with it.
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fantastic car in dynamic position.
A dedication; to the multitalented and super sexy vixen Jacqueline Gwynne AKA heroine. This portrait was shot using a pentax K1000 and lLford black and white film and printed in the dark room the conventional way using high contrast filters and techniques such as dodging and burning.
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The lighting & general arrangement in this corridor had an almost ‘old master’ feel to it… Whilst not the most exciting part of the Sergeant’s Mess, this has never the less ended up being my favourite shot from that outing.
A very neglected old Dodge truck found on the roadside by Gail and I yesterday. / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM / /
This is an old truck parked (and forgotten) near my home in Bigga NSW. It has a lot of character and i would like to know its history, i think it would be interesting.
Another shot from the Monsters on the Beach held in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Adopted this bundle of joy from a horrible animal shelter a few years ago, and she has been such a great companion. She rarely leaves my side, deep down I think she really is thankful for the good life she has now. She is a Cockapoo, so a Cocker Spaniel and Poodle mix. Redfield Fractalalius, CS3 Dodge & Burn My art with 1000+ views
During a trip to my friends Brothers, in a small Iowa town… I captured this old Dodge sitting in his back field…
I was taking some of my first ever bodyboarding pics at durranbah beach on the Gold Coast, Australia, it was not until I got home that i realised this guy was doing drop knee on his bodyboard on top of 2 dolphins. I saw another dolphin in one of my pics as well.
Photo Manipulation done in Adobe Photoshop. A dying old dodge near my house in San Diego Ca. sitting on blocks rusting away, I thought I’d give it another chance at glory.
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1936-37 GMC The holes in the windshield are the result of falling rocks on a mine site; not bullets. (2009.APR.04) RedBubble Album: The Wheels We Were Canon 350D EOS / Tamron 55/200mm & Polarizing filter Corel PhotoImpact x3
This 1934 Dodge sparkled, gleamed, was magnificently maintained. Photographed at a tiny little car show this past fall.
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