Digital BW, The Print

The new layer dialog box appears if you use the menu or Alt (option?) click
the new layer button in the layers palette.  Once you select a blending
mode, it enables the check box to fill the layer with that blending mode's
neutral color.

I too prefer to do burning and dodging on adjustment layers, but on the few
occasions I use the burn/dodge tool, I set the "exposure" very low like 12
or 6 percent and make multiple passes to build up the effect I want.

BTW, there is a nice technique described to open up shadow areas at
imagingrevue.com (it's an excerpt from Katrin Eismann's book "Photoshop
Restoration & Retouching").  The article is titled "From the Desk of the
Photoshop Diva - Week Two: Extending Dynamic Range Without Bracketing!" and
can be found here: http://www.imagingrevue.com/articles/?article=000101

I don't believe you can read the entire article on-line without subscribing
to the site though.

--Tom


>
> Nice technique.  Where exactly does the the box pop up asking about medium
> gray...in the background copy layer?  I'm using PS 7.01 and there isn't a
box
> pop up.
>
> Helene
>