Mastering Dodging and Burning with 4 Techniques (Photoshop Tutorial)

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thank you for watching. Glad you found the information helpful.

[@TheGumbylives]

This is one of the most complete tutorials I have seen. Thank you for combining the options all in one video.

[@TheRedArtistChannel]

This is a great addition to the dodge and burn tutorials that currently exist. I definitely look forward to adding this to my work flow. Thanks

[@myscoobie5]

Thanks Michael, I am new to PS - just over a year now! This is one of the best guides I have come across for PS or LR. Well done indeed and very helpful to help grasp the dodge and burn options. I look forward to watching more. There are a lot of vids out there and frankly many are useless as you can not follow them or understand the narration. You are clear and easy to follow while working on own image in background.

[@HMaxTube11]

Best comprehensive, in-depth dodge/burn tut ever. Excellent, MW. Subscribed!

[@dogsareawesome1722]

I have been in search of techniques to obtain this look for awhile. Stumbling across this video made my entire year. Great and very informative! Thanks!

[@jeannotbadjie1807]

Hi there I may be the last one to come across this tutorial, I have to say credit to you as its very simple to follow. Short to the point no unnecessary details. Brilliant! I would like to see you put up a tutorial on how to retouch eyes at this point many thanks. An allert not will be much appreciated.

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Glad to hear that you got something new out of it Abraham.

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Very kind of you to say Supi. I'm a big fan of Phlearn as well.

[@supagonb]

You and Phlearn are my top teacher right now thank you

[@sassypants52]

Thank you for taking the time to share your craft with us. I enjoyed it, very well done.

[@martyratcliff3134]

Great topic, Michael, and succinctly presented!

[@AbrahamDakin]

This is fascinating stuff. This has totally blown what I thought I knew about dodging and burning completely out of the water!

[@Salexus5]

Very interesting, thorough and practical information. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Looking forward to more.

[@bala1000mina]

Thank you so much! Very helpful Michael! I learnt a lot from this video about different methods of DB! Good luck man!

[@zvkvhs3818]

Best dodge and burn tutorial on youtube! Thanks so much! I liked the second technique best! Found it to the less destructive. Looking forward to the other videos. Thanks again.

[@RandellJohn]

The frequency separation method was really useful and you reminded me to blur my layer masks as well. Thanks very much.

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Glad to hear it Randell John, cheers

[@michaelellis5299]

There is a photoshop guide I saw with tips like this and more burn effects on photolg.com for anyone who wants to learn more tricks like this

[@twitchy_pixel]

Great tutorial - the Freq seperation method was great!

[@BrianPex]

The last method is really very nice. Excellent video

[@stealingseattle]

Love the last technique. Thanks for sharing.

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Haahaa, no problem Marian. Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers

[@mervolicious]

Excellent video, the fourth way to "dodge & burn" is the only way imho. If you "don't make enough" on an image to use it, just do the quick & dirty way with highpass at a large radius, desaturate, gaussian blur and paint it in with a mask. Btw: 28:30 - we would see the difference if the group was actually visible :D

[@LeeRenny]

This video was absolutely fantastic, I'm new to photoshop with my photography and this, even though it was a tonne of information, was made easy and clear to understand. Now I will slowly go through each and every one of your videos to improve my photoshop skills for portraits. Thanks so much! Dan -Lee Renny Photography

[@BeautyandtheLens]

Excellent tutorial!!!! I didn't know you could use FS for D&B...thanks for sharing!!!!

[@rahjnich89]

I enjoyed this video. Thank you. I learned a few techniques and some other little gems/shortcuts that will make my workflow smoother and more enjoyable.

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thanks Pete. Action link is in the description. I can't post links in comments.

[@NicolasRao]

Love it. Really like the way you showed how to avoid the color change in D&B. Always find you FS tech superb

[@AOUSI]

Very informative video ! Thank you so much. One of the first videos to help me make sense of dodge and burn.

[@iGZ001]

The frequency separation method seems really smart, have to try it tonight! Brilliant tutorial, thank you!

[@myriancelest7811]

Very good job, I learn a lot with your video :) love the seconde with curves and the last technique most :) each technique has a specifique utility ! Thanks !!!

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thanks for watching Gustavo

[@hakamsoufan]

Best video I saw him ... do not you combine several lessons in one lesson .. good thing that you have chosen more than one way .. thank you

[@el0bravo0de0la0salsa]

The action for the curve method has the blending mode set to Normal instead of luminosity. Thanks for the tutorial , it was great .

[@apparaojilludimudi7880]

Excellent tutorial - good job

[@lawaii2024]

Yes! Genius simplicity! Aloha and mahalo, Michael!

[@MsTiaDGB]

Amazing! So easy to follow and well explained. Thank you Mike!

[@VanGoDesigns]

amazing ! thank you so much for your generosity with your time. Super teacher as well . Good day ♥

[@lindseyhayes3242]

most helpful dodging and burning video I have watched. Thank you so much!!!

[@elranta]

Thank you very much for this valuable technic. it's quite complicated, but worth it. I'm definitely going to learn and to use it.

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thank you Lorenzo, cheers!

[@neiyoster]

Thanks for sharing this, the last technique is very cool, I'm going to try it very quick !!!

[@Tosy52]

Lots of great info Michael! Thanks so much!

[@Rogier1969]

Thanks - watched the whole thing. Very helpful!

[@RocksteadySteam]

Nnj

[@sulafakh]

the last method was very helpful thanx a lot for sharing

[@PonteRyuurui]

very helpful indeed

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thanks a lot Wilman

[@paulrous1985]

Absolutely worth watching, thanks!

[@larrymockus219]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @28:15 another option (instead od Gaussian Blur) is to increase the feather value in the Mask Properties window. That way you can still reduce the blur later. I believe :)

[@HarmUdding]

Thank you. About technique 4: I get better results when I set the blend-modes of both layers to overlay or soft light.

[@fangbifxx]

Really great video. Thank you so much for your time as well.

[@alexaspero103]

You made such a good tutorial,thank you so much! will be awesome if youll can create tutorial about painting effect or how its called right,like your background pic style,thats looks amazing!

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thank you JM

[@homayoonasgharzadeh5572]

i really appreciate for this super master dodge and burn process

[@Daniel_Zalman]

For adding highlights to hair, I prefer to create a black layer with a color dodge blend mode and brush in the highlights with a medium gray brush at a low flow. This way you don't need to be surgical with the brush in order not to make the texture of the highlights in the hair blotchy (applying a uniform color (via fill layer as you are suggesting) decreases contrast between the individual strands of hair, if that makes sense). Since Color Dodge is basically applying a curves layer with an upward slope, the brighter tones are more affected than the darker tones. At the end you can adjust the layer opacity (and/or blend-if) to fine-tune to taste.

[@madcat2709]

Hey Michael. Thanks for this well done and detailed video, I learned quite a bit. At 28:32 when you smooth out the layer mask on the curves D&B you forgot to turn on the visibility of the group - is that maybe why we don't see a difference between smoothed and unsmoothed mask?

[@khaled1abdo]

awesome tutorial

[@StuartSmithcreativespace]

So very helpful, thank you very much

[@viptoneyt]

Great Tut. Many Thanks Micheal

[@wikwekwak]

thank you so much.. easy to follow.. and learn a lot.. but which of these technique you use frequently?

[@susandutt]

Thank you! One of the best dodge&burn tutorials I came across))

[@siminnazjalali9764]

It was an excellent tutorial. thank you.

[@heipuntnl]

Thanks for sharing, ( teaching) . Grtzzz from the Netherlands.

[@AntonPickard]

Excellent video Michael. Wondering if at the end when you want to blur the brush strokes in the layer mask if you could instead apply some feathering in the mask properties panel to soften the brush strokes.

[@Mr.PetePrice]

Great job, great pace, Thanks! Actions ??

[@hugoboss163]

Great tutorial! thanks

[@rajramjit1755]

This is a perfect tutorial...maybe a prereq is um..you must know photoshop...great job, very thankful for this. SMH at some of these comments.

[@BrianPex]

Raj Ramjit LOL! Yup! I was once very confused about PS and these vids are not good unless you know the software. They blame the tutorial and not their own lack of knowledge! :-)

[@criticaltinker]

thank you. i like the last approach. thanks again.

[@rarasphotography8539]

so much help full

[@doveheir]

You can also add this technique *TrickPhotoEffects. com*

[@angnavep3136]

Wow. Thank you so much. This was fantastic.

[@juanmitaproductions]

Great work my friend!!!!

[@charlost]

Tks for sharing such a good techniques!

[@karabust546]

Great tutorial, yes long and audio a lil off, but it goes through 4 different styles of edit - so nice to know the alternate options as some are easier than others. I also actually learnt a lot about photoshop in general, little tricks like ctrl+G to group layers and ctrl+i to invert on a layer.. so thanks! =) ps: you can also dodge/burn in Lightroom

[@carlyleellis8467]

Watched the Dodging and Burning Tutorial. Excellent! Thank you for sharing. I have always used the 50% overlay layer method but the Curves Adjustment Layer technique is far better. One question...Does it matter if you use the dodge and burn tools vs the brush tool when using the overlay layer db technique?

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thank you... It doesn't matter at all Carlyle. You could use the D&B tools or switch between a black and white brush on the 50% layer, won't make a difference to the end result.

[@Grimtnavn]

Hi Michael. First of all thank you for the Best High end tutorials! Which skin smoothing technique do you prefer to use?

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thanks a lot! To be honest I don't do any blur based skin smoothing anymore. I always do it through frequency separation, and D&B manually. The best option seems to be inverse high pass though.

[@Jerminator1984]

People are more worried about his mouth sounds than the techniques presented here. It kind of annoyed me too, but give the dude a break. Focus on learning something new, for FREE. Be patient and understand the "why", as much as the "how". This is one of the better tuts I have seen. Right on man, I subscribed. Have an open mind and get over the petty stuff.

[@danmorgan9447]

Thank you for this great and informative video! FS is a very useful and powerful technique.

[@cliveyoung6334]

I really enjoyed the tutorial and used it in Affinity Photo has well.

[@KarenDivorty]

Excellent video! I've always struggled with dodging/burning as it never seems to look natural. I've found the second technique is the best - it offers so much control and the blending options are so helpful. With the burn layer though, I changed the blending mode to darker, as I found luminosity gave the skin a yellow glow - any idea what caused this?

[@KerwanCelestine]

dude you're AMAZING!!!! thanks so much for this!!

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Thanks for the kind words Kerwan

[@ndek458]

Great technique (specifically the last), Thanks for the help!

[@PeterCphotos]

Mike you video instructions are great! Is there a place where we can get the photos you work on? It would be easier to follow??

[@gustavocampos1969]

Great video! Thanks.

[@jessetolley78]

Hi Michael, great tutorial! Could you please advise me how would be best to save Layer Groups so that I can just load them later. I have been searching through google and youtube to no avail. Thanks :)

[@MichaelWoloszynowicz]

Hi Jesse, best bet is to just record an action that will create the groups and layers as needed. Then just play that action every time you work on an image.

[@0xigix0]

Grate tutorial , Thank You!

[@PierreBendayan]

Timestamp; 28:00 - When blurring the mask Tip: Instead of Gaussian blur you can use the "Feather" slider in the properties of the layer mask. Thx for a great tut. I always forget how to do the split :-)

[@Robertobinetti70]

Thanks for great work!

[@naba04]

Very useful. Wow!

[@AzeezEnitanOjewale]

good tutorial. I learnt a lot

[@kaloyantsilev]

Great video and tutorial. Just as a recommendation - make quick links in the description to each technique.

[@Spudgun88]

Damn good tutorial, I especially like the FS method.

[@Lorenzopphotography]

Dude your the man!! thanks for sharing

[@Reemediacompany]

Thank you for the tutorial!

[@JuNe_617]

Thanks for the information!

[@AndresDMiller]

Helps so much thank you!

[@Rogier1969]

Thanks - very insightful. I'm practicing my D&B skills. This is helpful!

[@aldricsuan]

super helpful thanks

[@kannetth]

I've just subscribed to your channel after watching your "Natural outdoor portrait retouch" video (that I personally loved). I use to DB with curves because it also gives me the ability to modify the curves afterwards to fine-tune the effect (maybe by using a two- or three- point curve to control your transitions/roll-off a little bit). The FS technique is very smart, I've never thought about preserving details that way, but I was wondering why not using it in combination with curves. I think that it will take the advantages of both and it is also action-friendly. Do you think it could make sense? Thank you for your videos, by the way. :)

[@dsdigitalgallery2940]

Can just say WoW!!!

[@Peterbphotos]

Nice video but where can you get the action? There's no download in the link provided.