- Now that we've explored a little bit
of the concept of Dodge and Burn,
I want to show you how we practically apply that
to remove distracting elements in our skin,
using this technique.
Before we go any further on our dodging for our skin,
I'm going to go ahead and rename this mask
so that I can keep everything really nice and organized.
So we'll name this dodge skin.
That way we know that we are doing some
dodging work on the skin, so I'll hover over the mask
and you can see where I'm actually painting.
I am going to decrease my flow just a little bit more,
just to make sure that I cannot actually
see my brushstrokes as I'm painting,
because if you can see your brushstrokes
as you're dodging and burning,
you know that your settings are too high.
So just keep that in mind.
And so coming in here, and what I'd like to do
is just accentuate those highlights
that are on the skin.
So anywhere where I see a
native highlight on the image,
I'm just going to try and brighten it.
So including the highlight on the lips,
like I said you can Dodge and Burn features as well.
We can Dodge and Burn features,
we can Dodge and Burn skin.
It's really whatever you want to make brighter.
Give the illusion that that specific area
is closer to camera, 'cause that's what we're trying to do,
is we're just trying to make the illusion that
this face is more three dimensional
than a two-dimensional art form.
And that's more of the macro sense of Dodge and Burn.
The micro sense is more like
the areas of the eye whites,
and maybe I can even get in here in the pixel level,
let's make our brush super tiny.
Is this the fastest way to do this?
Absolutely not, all I am doing
in this specific example,
is showing you the absolute
breadth of application for this specific tool.
All right, so I was able to just brighten
over that specific vein and that allows that vein
to be much less visible,
especially if we zoom out to our image,
to where most people would usually look at our image.
So I'm just kind of coming in here.
There is a little tiny spot right here
on the nose that I'd like to remove.
Let's brighten up this cheek just slightly.
And again, even though you cannot see my brushstrokes,
I am adding brightness to this area.
And so this technique, it really does go
hand in hand with the burning section
which I am going to cover next.
And once you see the two of them together,
you're really going to be blown away
by what can actually be achieved in your image
just by brightening and darkening certain areas.
I cannot wait for you guys to see once this is all finished.
Okay, so I think that dodging is pretty much done.
I think I may have gone even a bit too far
in some areas, and that's totally okay,
because what I can do is come over to my exposure
and just decrease the visibility
of that dodging to make it look
just a little bit more three dimensional.
Now this also protects your skin smoothing.
When we did our skin mask,
we lost a little bit of contrast.
We lost a little bit of highlights,
and we lost a little bit of shadows.
So for you to be able to bring back
that illusion, is really important.
So I am going to just pull this down even further
so that this effect looks really nice and natural.
And in our next video we're going to talk about
burning for our skin.