In a traditional darkroom, dodging and burning refers to the manipulation of exposure to make selected areas of a print lighter (dodging) or darker (burning)—a technique covered in most photography classes. In Photoshop, however, the typical user doing a portrait retouch may never click on the dodge and burn tools—and for good reason. Rarely is "D&B" explained in Photoshop tutorial books other than in general terms, and usually applied to landscapes rather than people.


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If you make only one change to improve the color of your photos it should be to correct the color temperature of your image.


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Frustrated with color selections? Not seeing eye-to-eye with Photoshop? Consider this free counseling. This simple tutorial will show you two of the most common ways to select a color in Photoshop.


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In this post we will show you how to get rid of a distracting background in an image, using photoshop.


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This tutorial is the first in a series that will teach you a basic workflow for portrait retouching in Photoshop. I will try to give you enough information to get good results without getting mired in pro-level details.


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Let's learn some very useful things about the Color blending mode in Photoshop.


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