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Hello, and welcome to Paint Shop Pro Basics episode 30
Today we're covering the Dodge and Burn brushes.
We find these brushes in the exact same area as the Lighten/Darken brush. Right underneath the Paint Brush.
They are the two tools with the white and black circle icons. We'll start with the Dodge brush.
Now, the dodge and burn tools are complimentary.
Their effects are opposite of each other.
Where as the Dodge tool will lighten the image....
the burn tool will darken an image.
The right-mouse button makes the dodge brush act like the burn brush and burn act like dodge.
Now just like with our lighten/darken tool I can't undo a Dodge with a Burn.
However, it's a lot closer than the lighten/darken tool.
There are going to be some slight differences. After all you have changed the pixel values so they will be different.
Dodge and burn have two options that effect how they work.
There's opacity, which determines the strength of the effect.
And we have the Limit Mode.
Limit can limit the effect to Shadows, Midtones, Highlights, or no limit at all.
So what are Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights?
Well I wasn't able to find an exact definition in the help files
However, here's what I've learned through experimentation.
I've opened up my HIstogram Palette,
Right now it's only displaying the lightness values for my image.
We have lots of darks, midtones, and a few highlights.
Shadows refer to the first 25% of your colors, the darkest ones.
Midtones are your middle 50% of the lightness values.
And the last 25% are your highlights.
So knowing this i can actually limit the effect to either my Shadows, midtones, or highlights.
So if I want to brighten my shadows. Watch what happens.
Now I am brightening other areas because they fall very close to my limit colors. But most of the effect was limited.
It still effects the other colors. But a majority effects only the shadows.
You'll see some mixing even with the limit set.
And that's pretty much it.
Here let me try an darken my highlights.
The limits work better in some images more than others.
You'll find restricting it to the Shadows will have a much larger effect than the highlights.
I'm done! That's all there is.
Opacity for strength. Limit to limit where the effect is applied.
Works with both the dodge and burn tools.
Quick recap. Dodge - lighten. Burn - Darken.
These are also less severe than the light/darken tool.