Dodge and Burn | A Photoshop Tutorial by Mark Mann

With its roots in the Dark Room, the Dodge and Burn tool in Adobe Photoshop can be a very powerful tool.
Mark takes a raw image and shows you how he uses only the Dodge and Burn tool to add the drama and style.
For Mark’s full retouching tutorial click this link: • Retouching and Color C...
Special thanks to the devilishly handsome Roman Mejia, Soloist at New York City Ballet for allowing us to use his image in this tutorial.
You can follow Roman on IG at / roman.julian.mejia
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Mark Mann is a celebrity and advertising photographer. His editorial work has appeared in Esquire, Men’s Health, Vibe, Spin, Fortune, Billboard, Parade, and Complex, among others. He has shot countless celebrities, including Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Iggy Pop, Jack Black, the Black Eyed Peas, Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Rihanna, Queen Latifah, Simon Baker, Stevie Wonder, Bradley Cooper, Willie Nelson, Sean Connery, John Hamm, and Jennifer Hudson. Mark loves to shoot people from Presidents to Kids who want to be Presidents.
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[@vbahns]

Love your photography but I really love your style as a person. No bullshit, just honest & so calm and relaxed. Thanks for all the info.

[@ComplicatedThings]

Thanks so much for your kind words. It means a lot :)

[@filibertkraxner305]

Great video. It's funny how similar our dodging/burning approach is! I just do the B&W conversion first, and I actually use the dodge/burn tool. But you have more control it seems, so I'll give those masks+curves a try too. 👍

[@ComplicatedThings]

Thank you so much! Photoshop has so many options, it really comes down to whatever works best for you.

[@saashuseini56]

Thank you Mark ! I love this tutorial

[@ComplicatedThings]

Thanks so much! Please let us know what else you would like us to make.

[@SandroGiambra]

👏👏👏A real darkroom! ... but replicable and correctable. Thanks!!

[@ComplicatedThings]

Thank you, its nice to give your photos an old darkroom feel.

[@vivienmann3945]

Great photographer and great producer ☺️☺️

[@mattgrayson343]

True that!

[@captaincook6283]

I really enjoy your videos and its content, watched some other tutorials which are all very fast and sometimes frustrating - I love your calm way of explaining things very relaxed and friendly. I was surprised that you didn’t do much inside the face like around nose and lips and cheek bones and still got exceptional result. 👏 Don’t you do any skin retouching normally or was it just for the sake of this video that you focused on dodge and burn ? Thank you so much - I wish I could have a mentor like you in real ( maybe dr. Dispenza manifesting techniques will help one day…🙈😅)

[@ComplicatedThings]

Yes Mark absolutely will retouch the face but has a motto of “if it wasn’t there a month ago and it won’t be there a month from now, I remove it” he also says “if you earned it I leave it.” In this case he skipped that step to focus on dodge and burn for the video. I hope that helps

[@marcusoutdoors4999]

Cracking tutorial

[@ComplicatedThings]

Cheers mate!

[@nnfotografia]

Just a question, is there a shortcut to reach that curves things or I'll have to open that box every time to have it opened?

[@CharlieB1952]

now i just noticed this when you are doing your quick mask on the eyes, you did not mention that when you exit quick mask you now have a selection and that selection will appear as a mask on the next layer you create but you fail to mention you need to invert the mask to focus only on the eyes ?

[@ComplicatedThings]

Sorry about that! Good Catch!

[@jaysonm4921]

ｐｒｏｍｏｓｍ

[@SpotBentley]

Nice video but the background music is dreadful, distracting, and totally unnecessary.

[@ComplicatedThings]

Noted and will try to do better for you next time