Digital BW, The Print

On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 08:40  PM, Harry Saddler wrote:

> Another alternative to burning: select an area, go to quick-mask mode, 
> do
> a gaussian blur of the mask, switch back into normal mode, then do a
> Levels adjustment layer. If you need the effect to fade from one side 
> to
> the other, or from the middle out, you can apply the gradient tool over
> the adjustment layer.

good tips... another way to do that is to make the levels adjusment 
layer first, make your selection, hit the mask icon while the levels 
adj layer is highlighted and then blur the mask, just the way I prefer, 
rather than going in and out of quickmask.

Try putting the levels adj layer with it's mask into a curve set, then 
apply  another mask to the set, double masking... life doesn't get any 
better... until the filter adjustment layers hit us in PS8.

>  The common photographer's trick of slightly burning
> in the corners of an image is easily done this way; use the oval
> selection tool, select the entire image except for the corners, invert
> the selection, then continue with the quick-mask as above. The cool 
> thing
> about this is that once you've got the mask created and appropriately
> blurred, you can then drag the levels slider back and forth while
> watching the strength of the effect. Other selection methods are good 
> for
> this, too, e.g. color range.

another is make a levels or curve layer, don't make any moves in it, 
it's acting like a dup image layer without adding file size, put a 
multiply blend mode on it, mask the layer and paint white and black to 
effect the areas required.  You can also of course make moves within 
the adjustment layer to further emphasize what you're doing.

Try the screen blend mode for dodging.

dodge burn tools in PS, in my opinion, are too destructive to most 
images.  but the various ways to accomplish it without using them are 
very cool.
Carolyn