Recreating Dodge and Burn
August 30th, 2007 by Sallad
A couple of my favorite photography bloggers (Following my Bliss, and KG Photography) have been talking about using dodge and burn Photoshop effects with their photos. I love how their pictures turned out, so I tried to recreate the effect with Picasa - my quick and easy and free tool of preference.
I used some photos of my garden and focused my edits on increasing the shadows. I’m pleased with how they turned out. Note: The purpose was to get the background to disappear, it was daylight when I took these…and wet.
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Very nice - can’t believe you did that with Picasa. You must get Photoshop though (or even Photoshop Elements) - a whole world will open up!
Thanks. I use Elements at work regularly, and I’ve used regular Photoshop for years. I just don’t currently have it installed.
Those look incredible. I have Elements, but I am absolutely totally and utterly useless with it.
Those look great!!! And they make me hungry too, well the plump juicy tomato gets me hungry not the leaves.
Was the tomato from your garden? It’s really beautiful. I could use some vegetable gardening tips.
Yeah, the tomato was just from a plant I had in a container at the end of my driveway. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks tasty.