Dodge & Burn I: The Technique

This is the first part of Kate Breuer's Dodge and Burn series. In this first part, she explaines the basics and shows the technique of dodging and burning.

Kate Breuer creates two circles and shows how to create an orb out of one of them, just by adding shadows and highlights. In addition, she explaines, the different techniques one can use to darken or lighten.

One example is simply drawing on an empty or neutral-gray layer at "soft light". Another one is to create two curves layers and using the layer masks.

The other three parts will be about accentuating foldings, guiding the vision, forming body parts and the face and about skin retouching.