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Does anyone have any links to a how to burn photos in photoshop? I want to bring out certian subjects in photos & burn out edges. I have seen some work on this, but it looks very edgy. I want to do a smooth seemless burn, that transitions easily.


Thanks in advance.

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For doing a gradual darkrning or lightning to the edges of a image use quick mask in conjuction with the gradiant tool then adjust the levels, for small parts of the image that you say are to "edgey" then proberley you are using the burn or dodge tool with too sharp an edge alter it to a soft edge brush/tool to get a more feathered effect from the burning in.

Paul
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As well as the Burn tool the new Shadow/Highlights adjustment in CS does a great jog with 'burning-in' highlights. It's not exactly intuitive but it's well worth learning - it can restore hightlights like no other PS feature.

You can also try this method:
Add a layer over the background layer, fill it with 50% gray, and set the layer blend mode to Hard Light.
Now paint on that layer with black paint to "burn" and white paint to "dodge".

When burning for contrast such as clouds, or anything, set you percent to no more than 6%! You can always go over it, but this makes it a natural transistion.

Vikki u got that book too? Anyway here the way I do it. In photoshop create a new layer at the top of your image and change the composite mode to soft light. Now get the brush tool and change the hardness to 30%. Use black to burn and white to dodge.

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