6.0 Dodge Tool
Used to lighten
tones
Found at # 23 in the Toolbar diagram at left
Please note that the burn tool,
and sponge tool have their own pages.
The burn, and sponge tools are hidden under the dodge tool in the toolbox.
If one of these was used last, it will be on top, and the dodge tool will
be hidden. To find it, click on the tool which is showing, and choose
the one you want from the pop-up menu.
The dodge tool will lighten the pixels dragged over according to the percentage chosen in the tool's options bar [see below]. You can choose to lighten highlights, midtones, or shadows. Each must be worked on separately; the tool does not work on all three at once.
To use the dodge tool, select it in the toolbox, choose your settings in the options bar, pick a brush from the pop-up palette, and drag in the image to lighten the chosen tones. This tool has an effect on click, but does not do any additional work until it's moved. However, repeated stroking over the same area does have a cumulative effect.
If you choose Edit > Fade immediately after using this tool, you can change the opacity of the strokes you have just applied.
A shortcut for changing brush sizes while using this tool is to press the left bracket [ to decrease brush size, and the right bracket ] to choose a larger brush..
Note that these tools cannot be used on 1 bit Bitmap mode, or Indexed color mode images.
The keyboard shortcut for the dodge tool is the letter O. You can cycle through the dodge, burn, and sponge tools by holding down the Shift key while pressing the shortcut letter.
The illustration below, is the dodge tool's options bar. To choose a brush size, and type, click on the little down arrow to the right of the brush thumbnail. A pop-up palette of available brushes will appear. For more information on brushes, please see the Brushes page.
The Exposure slider is shown activated. To find the slider, click
on the little arrow to the right of the percentage value. The Exposure
setting determines how fast the image is lightened where you drag over
it with this tool. I recommend using a low setting of 10 % or
less and stroking repeatedly to reach the effect you want.
Below the options bar illustration, is an image of the Range drop down menu showing the three choices available. You can work on only one at at time. If Shadows is selected, only dark areas will be lightened. Dragging the tool over bright, highlight areas will have no effect, and vice versa when Highlights is selected.
If you have doodled with a tool's options and want to get back to the default settings, click that tool's icon at the far left end of its options bar. Choose either Reset Tool to reset only the current tool, or Reset All Tools to restore default settings to every tool.
Please note that all descriptions, and illustrations featured refer to files which are in Photoshop's .psd format, and which are in RGB color mode. Other file formats, and color modes may generate different options. Some Photoshop features are not available for images not in .psd format, or RGB color mode. To find what color mode your image is in, choose Image > Mode.
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