This is now my technique going forward!! i look forward to sharing this video with alot of people! This is actually a FUN WAY TO DODGE AND BURN!!!!! Holy cow!! Im going to master this!!!! THANK YOU!!!
Great tutorial.I think you can use the B&W layer with the Blending Mode set to Color or Saturation which will give you the same luminosity representation as the color fill.
Nick! Came here after your recommendation during the live show yesterday. Great technique. I have been learning frequency separation, and it seems that I do a kind of dodge and burn when using a brush on the low frequency layer. I am constantly looking over the face to see the skin hue and luminosity I want to paint with. I will pick up a darker color or a lighter color based on how I want to "sculpt" the face. I also got out my Xbox 360 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and am playing the non-campaign small-map single-person games on easy and low sensitivity to practice on my shooting panning. I have to get to the point where I pan TO the target instead of panning PAST the target.
Hi Nick i am a great fan of your all your work and videos - your patient and well reasoned explanations are clear and make a difficult topic easy to understand . Is this now your preferred method to dodge & burn over using curves ?
The reason you usually wouldn't use a mask is because the great thing about this method is being able to quickly switch between dodge and burn with just the X key to switch the color if the brush, white for dodge black for burn. I used to use this method when I was new to dodge and burn and I would frequently switch between them. Although i suppose if you wanted to dodge and burn the traditional masking way with the softlight effect, you could make solid color layers, one black and one white, set it to soft light then mask it. Doing so would effectively double the precision in which you could paint since having only 50% grey and lightening and darkening from there only leaves 49 points of opacity where a solid color masked would have a full 100 points of opacity. If you wanted to be even more accurate that would definitely be the way to go.
Nicely covered but I see a bit of grey introduced when the local dodge is done , perhaps a bit of colour correction would have helped here too ........just a suggestion.
Thanks for this! Is there a difference between adjusting opacity and flow? I notice you adjust flow down and not opacity. Just wonder why. Thanks so much!
Flow can be built upon in a single stroke just by back tracking, opacity has to be seperate brush strokes repeatedly over an area. I'll do a video on it soon! Hope that answers your question for now!
Nick Smyth that helps a lot. Thanks. Do you use a tablet to edit? I'm using an intuos pro with pen pressure sensitivity so was just curious if you're also using pen pressure as well as manually adjusting flow. Thanks, nick!
this is the best video for dodge and burn.. i come back to it all the time
feels like i have been watching this vid for 5 years lmao
Love your work on IG, wonderful video and style of processing
Thank you very much, i appreciate that!
This is now my technique going forward!! i look forward to sharing this video with alot of people! This is actually a FUN WAY TO DODGE AND BURN!!!!! Holy cow!! Im going to master this!!!! THANK YOU!!!
Im not even happy about this, Im fkn hyper!
This is one of the best videos I've seen on D&B. Damn Awesome! Much appreciated!!!
Thank you nick 🙏🙏 you r helping other photographers by making great tutorials ❤ n inspiring us by creating amazing photos👌blessed to have you man👏
Great tutorial.I think you can use the B&W layer with the Blending Mode set to Color or Saturation which will give you the same luminosity representation as the color fill.
Amazing, thank you Nick
It really seems to be easier than the others way i saw (& practice) ! You are definitly awesome Nick !
Very Good! I use curves. But this one is faster. Thanks
Nick! Came here after your recommendation during the live show yesterday. Great technique. I have been learning frequency separation, and it seems that I do a kind of dodge and burn when using a brush on the low frequency layer. I am constantly looking over the face to see the skin hue and luminosity I want to paint with. I will pick up a darker color or a lighter color based on how I want to "sculpt" the face. I also got out my Xbox 360 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and am playing the non-campaign small-map single-person games on easy and low sensitivity to practice on my shooting panning. I have to get to the point where I pan TO the target instead of panning PAST the target.
Great Stuff!!! Keep it up Nick! Thanks for teaching all of us!
Always my dude!
Hi Nick i am a great fan of your all your work and videos - your patient and well reasoned explanations are clear and make a difficult topic easy to understand . Is this now your preferred method to dodge & burn over using curves ?
something new for me to learn
amazing content
Thanks for the tutorial! Very helpful. With curves I use masks. Why not masks for this method?
The reason you usually wouldn't use a mask is because the great thing about this method is being able to quickly switch between dodge and burn with just the X key to switch the color if the brush, white for dodge black for burn. I used to use this method when I was new to dodge and burn and I would frequently switch between them. Although i suppose if you wanted to dodge and burn the traditional masking way with the softlight effect, you could make solid color layers, one black and one white, set it to soft light then mask it. Doing so would effectively double the precision in which you could paint since having only 50% grey and lightening and darkening from there only leaves 49 points of opacity where a solid color masked would have a full 100 points of opacity. If you wanted to be even more accurate that would definitely be the way to go.
@@NoahDanteSmyth thank you!
Nicely covered but I see a bit of grey introduced when the local dodge is done , perhaps a bit of colour correction would have helped here too ........just a suggestion.
Thanks for this! Is there a difference between adjusting opacity and flow? I notice you adjust flow down and not opacity. Just wonder why. Thanks so much!
Flow can be built upon in a single stroke just by back tracking, opacity has to be seperate brush strokes repeatedly over an area. I'll do a video on it soon! Hope that answers your question for now!
Nick Smyth that helps a lot. Thanks. Do you use a tablet to edit? I'm using an intuos pro with pen pressure sensitivity so was just curious if you're also using pen pressure as well as manually adjusting flow. Thanks, nick!
Before u started,Frequency separation is Completed????
this method looks better than using the curves methods....