Using Color Dodge in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Now what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and add this highlight that we're going to be looking for in our apple onto her head. So if we look here, what I've got is I've got a Marque tool Select and what I did is a Marque around it to the size that I wanted then I did a, I did a Selection-Border and then Selection- Feather. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to do is I'm going to click here on my Paint Bucket tool and I'm going to do Mode-Lighten, Opacity around 25%. That way I can adjust how I want this to be. So this is once, this is twice. That looks pretty good. If I Command-Deselect this, you can see it's got a nice little highlighted ring around it. So what we're going to do now is we're going to take our Smudge tool and basically we're just going to free smudge this. We're going to have to set our Strength to, let's set our Strength to 50. There we go. And we usually set your Strength by keying it in. I keyed five, zero and it keyed in our Strength. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this and just smudge it on out. What this is going to do is it's going to kind of break it up a little bit and make it look like we want it to. And also remember to change the size of your Brush too. Just every now and then so you can get some effect going on here. And basically we're just going to be smudging and blending these colors in like so. Now, Ideally I should have did this on a new layer but I didn't so learn from my mistakes and do it on a new layer. There we go, like so. Like so. Very nice. Now this looks, let's zoom out and see how this looks. Doesn't look too bad. Almost looks like, maybe it looks a little bad. Take it out and let's blend this in a little bit, like so. We're going to keep this look going on here. Smudging here, just a little bit here. There you go. Okay, now we'll zoom out. Not so bad. Looks like the apple core is actually set in there. Not too bad. We're going to leave it at this. I could work with this a little bit more and change this but this is okay for right now. So, we're going to stop here and we're going to move onto the next section."