I will start by drawing a sphere in Photoshop. With skillful manipulations you can even re-shape facial and body features by shifting shadows and highlights.
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With D&B you can not only even out the surface of objects (for example, skin on faces and body in beauty and fashion photography or product surface in product photography), but sculpt and contour those objects to add volume for greater impact of the image. If you want to use D&B successfully, you should educate yourself on the basics of light and shadow rendering (as in painting and drawing), the anatomy of human face and body, and observe human faces with greater attention in photos and in real life.Ĭreating 3-D Looking Objects on a 2-Dimensional Canvas Let’s begin by clarifying that any retouching technique is only that - a technique, and it won’t do you any good, if you don’t have a good understanding of light behavior and human anatomy.
And in Part 2 myself and my retoucher-friends Alexey Dovgulya and Lulie Talmor will talk about the ins and outs of the D&B application in Photoshop. So, in Part 1 I will take you on a tour to a beginner painting class, we'll check out what makes 2-dimensional objects in pictures look like they have planes and volume. Dodging – lightening, burning - darkening.įrom my teaching experience I see that what I am going to talk about today is the missing link between learning the steps of this technique and actually successfully applying it in your retouching. Wikipedia: Dodging and burning are terms that come from analog photography, it is a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image's exposure. Part 3 of this article: The Ultimate Guide to the Dodge & Burn Technique – Part 3: Curves Setup & More Part 2 of this article: The Ultimate Guide to the Dodge & Burn Technique – Part 2: Setting Up For A Good Start
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UPDATE (May 2014): check out my article The Ultimate Guide To The Frequency Separation Technique Dodge & Burn (D&B) is a technique that came to us from the darkroom days when luminosity values in a photo could be only manipulated by the duration of the exposure of the light sensitive photographic paper. And while there’s so much that have already been published about it, I hope we can still shed some light on the aspects of it that are usually not mentioned in retouching tutorials.
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