deke.com posts about burn

Deke's Techniques 299: Enhancing a Photo with Nondestructive Dodge and Burn

Deke uses black and white brushstrokes, opacity settings, and blend modes to create a dramatic but completely editable dodge and burn effect.

Deke's Techniques 021: Creating a High Key High Contrast Effect in Photoshop

This week I show you how to turn an untreated studio photograph into a high key, high contrast image with ultra-black shadows but nary a clipped highlight.

Deke's Techniques 002: Branding Type on a Texture

The second Deke's Techniques is all about branding type onto a textured surface. In the video, Deke brands some type onto a rock wall. But you can do this with any texture. Like leather, parchment, or human flesh.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #26: Dodge and Burn

Photoshop offers two tools that paint with luminance: The dodge tool paints in brightness, the burn tool paints in darkness. They're crazy useful, and they've gotten so much better in Photoshop CS4.