Photoshop Dodge Tool Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc., and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Ok, guys. So, I'm going to quickly touch base on the dodge tool on this clip. So, basically, the dodge tool is right over here on your left hand side. If I zoom in, you can see that the shortcut for dodge tool is "O." So, if you hit Shift, and you can toggle through them. Or, if you click, you can see that there's a burn tool on the sponge tool. And, if you guys can remember back in the film days, you know, the black and white film, when you developed it at school or whatever. The dodge tool was always to lighten areas of your picture, and the burn tool was always to darken stuff. So, the dodge tool is what it is. It lightens stuff. You can lighten. Up here, as you can see, there is a painting mode where you can actually change the mid-tones or highlights or shadows, and it kind of really doesn't paint the individual range. What-it just brighten, like highlight brightens, and I'll just show you here in a second. But the dodge tool kind of works like the brush tool, where you can change the hardness, and you can change your diameter, and you can change the type of brush that you use. So, if you want a square dodge tool, you can do all sorts of cool stuff with it. And also, there's an exposure setting. So, if you want your dodge to be a lot lighter, you can just set that up a lot higher. And there's also the pin pressure little option there. So, if you want to actually bleed your dodge, you can do that. But, today we're going to start with the shadows area. And I'm just going to dodge just a little bit of this arm. I'll just show you what it does. It kind of just lightens it, and kind of makes it weird looking. That's because the exposure's up really, really high. So, what's-probably what you want to do is bring down your exposure to like fifty percent. And then you can kind of see that it just lightens a little bit of the arm. If I used, say, for instance, mid-tone, it's going to give me a kind of a even lighter selection. And if you go down to highlights, it's going to just blow it out and look really weird-green, kind of like a toxic green. But-and if you keep going, it'll just-you can obviously see it just goes crazy. But it's kind of cool for some effects. And, you know, if I want to lighten, like, the logo, I could lighten the logo really easily, as you can see there. And, you know, I can go back-back in time with Photoshop just by hitting Alt-Command-Z, or Alt-Control-Z on PC. Or, if you want to come over here and just click right there, you can get to the beginning. But, say, for instance, I wanted to make this logo a lot brighter, I can just click on it with the dodge tool. Make that a lot brighter. So, as you can see, the dodge tool is very effective in some areas of photography and pictures. And, on the next clip I'll actually just show you guys a little bit about the burn tool. Thanks for listening."