Dodge and Burn - Crash Course

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Retouching with Dodge and Burn - crash course

Full lips, emphasized eyes, enhanced make-up, removed wrinkles, whitewashed spots ... Learn in a practical way what you can achieve when retouching with Dodge and Burn. Merle Nicksch, successful photographer and retoucher, summarizes the technique in over 1.5 hours. She will show you various methods such as gradation curves, dodgers, post-exposure and empty layers and you will get hands-on experience.

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An overview of various techniques: How and why you use them, explained using specific examples
For a practical understanding of the content: including working materials
By photographer and retoucher Merle Nicksch, who not only retouches with dodger and post-processor

Dodge and burn with methodology and different methods - this is how you show faces that make eyes! Refine your retouching skills with this dodge and burn crash course!

Details

Usable with:
content: 2 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Examples of use

Portrait of a woman processed with Dodge and Burn

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Which dodge-and-burn techniques are practicable? What are they suitable for? How do they work?

Shot of a woman, edited with Dodge and Burn

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The course provides you with the essential tools for retouching portraits

Shot of a woman - example image for editing lips and eyes

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Whether eye, lip, mouth, hair or make-up - you can do it all with Dodge and Burn.

Retouching with Dodge and Burn - Portrait of a man edited using the technique

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In the course you will retouch portraits of both women and men.

Introduction

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Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 1.1 Intro

A few introductory words about the greeting: This is what the course is about.

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Dodge and Burn - Crash Course: 1.2 Introduction: What is Dodge and Burn?

In this video, Merle shows you what Dodge and Burn is all about. You will learn about the meaning of the name and what results you can achieve with this technique.

Techniques

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 1.3 Gradation curves

Merle uses this example to explain one of the many dodge & burn techniques. She explains how the gradation curves work and what kind of images she uses this technique for.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 1.4 Dodge & Burn at the output level

Dodge and Burn are the two most popular tools in Dodge & Burn. In this video, Merle will show you the advantages and disadvantages of these tools and explain how they work.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 1.5 level with 50 % gray

In this video, Merle explains her personal favorite Dodge & Burn technique. You will learn about the advantages and disadvantages of working on a gray layer and why Merle uses this method for her pictures.

Dodge and Burn - Crash Course: 1.6 Empty Plane

This video builds on the previous video and shows the advantages and disadvantages of this technique compared to the other techniques. You will learn how to work with Dodge & Burn on an empty plane.

Modeling

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 2.1 Modeling the face

You often want to make faces look a little narrower or change their shape. In this video, Merle shows you how you can achieve this without destroying pixels.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 2.2 Shaping lips

Dodge & Burn is a great way to emphasize lips and make them look fuller. In this video, Merle will explain what you need to look out for.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 2.3 Reduce nose

You can easily give noses a new shape by changing the highlights and shadows of the image. This video shows you how to do this without making it look artificial.

Eyes

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 2.4 Emphasize eyes

Using this example, Merle will show you how you can bring more life to your eyes with Dodge & Burn. She uses a special technique for this and explains where the advantage lies compared to her usual editing technique.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 2.5 Thickening eyebrows

Eyebrows often have small gaps and therefore appear less full. In this video, Merle will show you how to fill in gaps and also give your eyebrows a slight shape.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 2.6 Enhance make-up

In this video, Merle explains how you can apply make-up to a person with almost no make-up. You'll also find out how you can color the make-up afterwards.

Skin and spots

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 3.1 Removing mini stains

In this video, Merle will explain her most frequently used skin retouching method. You'll find out why she likes to use this method so much and what the advantages are compared to other techniques.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 3.2 Removing larger stains

This video builds on the previous video. After you have removed the small spots in the skin, you then retouch away larger spots.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 3.3 Remove wrinkles

Using this example, Merle will show you how you can also remove wrinkles with Dodge & Burn with a little dexterity. This technique works for both small and large creases.

Hair

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 3.4 Thickening the hairline & filling in the beard

For male models in particular, it is especially important that the hairline and beard have no gaps. In this video, Merle will explain how you can easily fill these gaps.

Image effect

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 3.5 Setting highlights (clothes)

In this video, you will learn how you can emphasize the clothing and give it more depth overall. You will learn where highlights and selective darkening of certain image areas are useful.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 3.6 Directing your gaze

In this video, Merle will explain how you can direct the viewer's eye where you want it to go. She will explain why she directs the focus of the image to which areas.

Dodge and Burn - Crash course: 3.7 Skin tones

Finally, you will learn how you can correct skin tones if they have changed during dodge & burn. In this video, Merle shows you two tried-and-tested methods for restoring these skin tones to the image.

Outro

Dodge and Burn - Crash Course: 4 Outro

A lot was taught - and hopefully a lot was learned. A few final words about the course.

Details of the content

Dodge and burn: the techniques, the applications
In image editing, the terms "dodge" and "burn" refer to the lightening and darkening of image areas . Used correctly, they can be used to remove skin spots or wrinkles, direct the viewer's gaze or retouch faces, for example. You can also use it to give your images more depth.

Lighten and darken! Nothing could be easier, as Photoshop offers numerous tools to do just that. But not every process is suitable for all purposes. In this training course, Merle Nicksch looks at various methods, shows how they work and, above all, what they are suitable for. What you can expect in over 1.5 hours with 26 lessons:

What is dodge and burn? What retouching techniques are there?

In the first chapter of the course, your trainer will first explain what Dodge and Burn is all about and will also introduce you to various techniques and how they work : Gradation curves, dodge and burn, layer with 50% gray and blank layer - important tools for anyone working in image editing and retouching.

Portrait retouching: lips, nose, eyes, make-up

The course then moves on to application with the help of specific image examples . The appropriate methods are used to emphasize lips, narrow noses, make eyes appear more vivid or to enhance the model's make-up and much more. Get hands-on and learn how to finely retouch portraits.

Retouching skin, thickening hair

You will also look at skin and skin texture: whether minor blemishes, larger spots or noticeable wrinkles - after the training you will know how to charmingly cover them all up. And even if a little more fullness would be desirable in the hair and beard, you can thicken the corresponding areas with suitable products. You can acquire additional retouching know-how with our tutorial on frequency separation with Photoshop.

What you'll learn in the dodge-and-burn crash course

You will learn about various methods for selectively lightening and darkening image areas (dodge and burn) with Photoshop using specific examples. You will find out how to proceed in each case, what techniques are suitable for what purpose and what advantages and disadvantages they offer. A training for your gain in directly applicable Photoshop knowledge.