Digital photo editing terms

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:15 pm

Anyone know a good info page on this?

I ran into the terms "burn" and "dodge", and though I've fiddled with their tools in photopaint, the lack of knowledge about what thye're all about makes it very difficult for me to use them. Anyone know?

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:21 am

Photoshop ought to have a built-in help menu, but a little bit of Googling led me to this page.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:13 am

We had a tutorial on actual darkroom burning and dodging in my photography class last week, which helped me understand the photoshop concepts better. Basically, in traditional photography, you dodge and burn by blocking certain areas of your print from the light while it's exposing, so that certain areas will expose either more or less than the rest of the print, and turn out lighter (dodging) or darker (burning).

I was thrilled to see that the sample dodging tool, a circle of cardboard taped to a stick, looked like the photoshop "dodge" icon. I could never figure out what the hell that lollipop-looking thing was supposed to be.

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:59 pm

Thanks you two! PhotoPaint's help files assume you already know what the terms mean, so they are very vague to say the least. Between the page and Kathleen's info, I think I should be able to figure out the tools now. Though I notice they don't seem to work on white.