Sumabal,Danica A.

Bediones, Rhea B.
ABOUT DODGE TOOL BURN
 DEFINITION
 The Dodge and Burn tools in Photoshop Elements 11 adopt their icons from analog
tools used in photography darkrooms. The digital counterparts are a great deal
more flexible and precise.
 Dodging and burning originated in the darkroom, where photographers would
salvage negatives containing areas that were too dark or too light by adding or
subtracting exposure as an enlarger made the prints.
 An enlarger makes a print by projecting an image of a negative onto a piece of
photosensitive paper. During the exposure, the darkroom technician can reduce
the amount of light falling onto the paper by placing some object (often a disk
shape of cardboard or metal impaled on a piece of wire) in the light path
to dodge part of the image.
 The worker can burn other parts of an image by exposing only a small portion
through an opening, such as the fingers in a cupped pair of hands or a piece of
cardboard with a hole.
 For example, the worker in a darkroom varies the size of the dodging or burning tool
by moving it up or down in the light path. Unfortunately, the closer the real-world
tool gets to the paper, the sharper it appears, forcing the darkroom worker to move
the tool more rapidly and frequently to blur the edges of the effects.
 HOW TO USE DODGE TOOL BURN
 In the Photo Editor, in Expert mode, open an image with under- or
overexposed areas and select the Dodge or Burn tool from the Tools panel.

 Press the O key to cycle between the Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools.

 When you lighten very dark shadows that contain little detail, you end up with
grayish shadows.

 Darkening very light areas that are completely washed out doesn’t make your
image look very good, either. You’ll end up with white patches.