In this 4-part intensive course we’ll be taking a deep dive into one of the most important tools and techniques in retouching known as Dodging and Burning (D&B). Dodging and Burning is essentially the manipulation of luminosity in order to refine skin, fabrics and other elements as well as adding local contrast in order to create a more 3-dimensional looking image.

While the concept of Dodging and Burning is quite simple, the practical implementation requires a good degree of knowledge and practice. We’ll talk about some of the key situations in which D&B is useful and what makes it such a powerful tool for skin retouching in the context of portraits, beauty and fashion photography.

We’ll look at practical examples across a variety of images and go beyond luminosity changes to show you how to overcome resulting or existing color problems.

Although D&B is considered a fundamental tool for retouchers, this is not a beginners course and thus requires some basic knowledge of Photoshop tools, layers and masks. Despite these pre-requisites we do present each concept from start to finish along with all the necessary layer and brush settings, so you can easily apply the same concepts to your own work.

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