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Polygon Lasso. Paint Bucket. Background Eraser. Magic Eraser. Color Picker. Colors Brightness. Invert Colors. Filters Blur. Zoom Motion Blur. Triangle Blur. Tilt Shift Blur. Dot Screen Halftone. Selection history. Click Here to open the editor if stopped by popup blocker. Launch Editor. This page is needed for the online editor. Do not close while editing. About the Burn Tool. The burn tool is used to selectively darken areas in an image or photo.

Lighten areas in your image with the dodge brush tool available in the online image editor at gifgit. Upload an image from your computer to use the dodge tool. How to Use the Dodge Tool. Upload an image using the form above. Press and drag in the image to lighten areas in the image. Adjust the settings in the tool options bar to set the size of the dodge tool.

How the Dodge Tool Works. Selecting the Dodge Tool To load the dodge tool locate and click the lollipop looking icon found in the toolbar above the editor canvas. When you click the icon the editor loads to the dodge tool page in the online image editor and the tool options bar will be populated with options for the dodge tool.

Lightening with the Dodge Tool With the dodge tool selected you can stroke the image to lighten desired areas. The dodge tool operates like a brush with size and blur settings for the stroke that can be found in the tool options bar. These control the thickness and hardness of the stroke respectively. Use stroke sizes that are appropriate to the area you are lightening. If the brush size is too small you will end up repeatedly stroking the image causing overlapping strokes.

This will compound the lightening effect where the strokes overlap and result in striations in the lightened area. Work with a brush size that will adequately cover the largest portions of the area you'll lighten then reduce it to fit into smaller subregions.

Brush hardness is controlled by the blur field in the tool options bar. If you soften the brush strokes by increasing the blur the edges of the dodge stroke will be less abrupt. The areas lightened by the stroke will transition smoothly to the rest of the image. This may be a more desireable effect as opposed to using a hard brush where the stroked areas would be distinct line in the image.

Changes the middle range of grays. Changes the dark areas. Changes the light areas. Specify the exposure for the Dodge tool or the Burn tool. Click the airbrush button to use the brush as an airbrush. Alternatively, select the Airbrush option in the Brush panel.

Select the Protect Tones option to minimize clipping in the shadows and highlights. This shadow was removed by brushing on a Screen adjustment layer over the shadow using a layer mask.

One adjustment layer was not enough so it was duplicated and further refined in order to match the value of the surrounding area. However, because it was a shadow moving into diffused highlight, the color looked gray so it was corrected using the Brush Tool in color blending mode and the blue color from the suit itself center image. The edges of the retouching were detailed using the Dodge and Burn Tools and small brushes. The Dodge Tool was also used to detail a few striped into the area where the arm shadow had been.

This job took about minutes from start to finish. This dress had been folded and the creases are visible in all of the images. A professional retouching artist will make sure that everything in the image is perfect and clothing is important!

The wrinkles were removed and the folds of fabric were shaped using the Dodge and Burn Tools. The skirt was pulled out at the bottom with the Liquify Tool just to add a bit of artistic movement.

No color corrections were needed. Plus Dodging and Burning provides a beautiful, graceful, natural look to every thing you do. It never looks like a filter effect; the artist is always in complete control over the way the retouching looks.

The Dodge and Burn Tools take a few minutes of practice to master, but the versatility, efficiency and results are well worth it. Just take it easy, remember the coloring technique and move frequently from one spot to another. The values match up and the area looks right. Compare your progress frequently by working on a Background copy and turning the layer visibility off and on.

Thanks for reading! Jane Conner-ziser is an award winning photographer, digital artist, premier educator and independent consultant. With over 25 years of experience, 19 of them in digital imaging and evolving technologies, the techniques Jane developed for facial retouching and enhancement and portrait painting from photographs are widely emulated by photographers and digital artists worldwide through her classes, online training and educational products. You can learn more on her website.