Photoshop Burn Tool Tutorial

Video Transcript

"The Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Alright, in this Photoshop CS3 tutorial I'm going to show you a little bit about the burn tool in Photoshop. As you can see, I'm going to zoom in for you guys and you can see the shortcut for the burn tool is 'O' on your keyboard. So say for instance you got paintbrush selected, you just hit 'O' and it automatically selects for you. Now the burn tool kind of works like the dodge tool, the tutorial I just did earlier. In the sense that instead of making stuff lighter it makes stuff darker. So you can actually work with your brushes again. You can make them bigger if you like. Also there's a different range of the type of burning you can do. You can mess with your mid-tones or you can do the highlights or your shadows. Some people won't understand how that works, but if you can see here I'll click highlights or actually for this tutorial I'll click shadows first. And if I zoom in for you guys you can actually see that the tag on here is awfully bright and if I click on it with the burn tool you actually don't see anything happen to that because it's so bright. It's considered a highlight. Now if I click on highlight down here on range and I click with my burn tool, it darkens it as you can see. And the reason why that's happening is because that is a highlight and the burn tool doesn't necessarily see that unless the highlight is clicked. And that is the burn tool in a nutshell. Thank you."