Preserved Topic: Color Dodge (Page 1 of 1)

Anyone know of any extensive tutes on the use of Color Dodge?

Well, not any tutes so to speak, but you have to realize what 'burn' and 'dodge' really are. Way back in the old days, when people used darkrooms and film, they had these photography techniques. (From this came "Photoshop" :-) When you 'dodged', you'd have this piece of film burning away, maybe 15-45 seconds depending, and the dark areas would get to dark. You'd wave your hand or a piece of cardboard back and forth over the dark spot, and it wouldn't get so much light and the shadows would have more detail in it, hence the 'dodge' bit, get it? Burn was almost the same thing, in reverse. You'd cut a msk, and let the white area get more light, allowing more detail. Adobe's book "Design Essentials" talk quite a bit about this, amongst other cool and useful things. Worth the $45 or so, IMHO.<P>------------------
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I love that tool!!!!!

Thanks Doc! I come from a "Pen and Ink" rendering bkgd and Photography is a 'foreign' subject to me. I've learned Photoshop treating it like an steroidal extension to my "Pen and Ink" skills not like a digital photo rendering tool. It's a fallacy in my approach undoubtedly. I would probably excel in Photoshop more if I studied Photography a bit, huh?

Adobe has a section on dodge and burn on their site -- it's located at <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html" target="new"> www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html</A>
They have a few other helpful things there too.<P>------------------
What care I how time advances? I am drinking Ale today. -- Edgar Allen Poe<p>[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 18-05-2000).]

Thanks DL-44! While I was at Adobe's site I watched Deke's QT video on eliminating .jpg artifacting. That was really cool!