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Photographic changes to images using tools and adjustments

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Photographic changes to images using tools and adjustments

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There are also a couple of tools in Photoshop that can be used for affecting tonal values and even colors or details in an image and these you will find here in the toolbar. There's one group that holds the Dodge, Burn and Sponge tools and then there's the other category Blur, Sharpen and Smudge. And also a fairly recent tool called Adjustment Brush Tool so we will talk about all of these in this lesson. First I'm going to start with this group the Dodge, Burn and Sponge. Dodge and Burn are used to brighten or darken details in a specific area of the image and they are all brush based tools so you can paint with them and one of the biggest problems and reasons why I don't use them often is that they are destructive so you have to apply them directly on the image. So I'm going to start by creating a duplicate layer and I'm going to call this one Edited and I'm just going to zoom a little bit closer here on this face and by using the Dodge tool by default it's set to mid-tones I will be…

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