What a tutorial, my photoshop skills just jumped up to a new level. Thanks for giving your time up to improve our skills. Keep them coming, please BGWales
Dodging and Burning... Seems so simple yet so difficult to master. Thank you for this informative video. Seeing and expert at work will definitely help me with my own editing.
It can be quite tricky to get a natural look at first. But with a little practice it becomes simple. Thanks so much for watching and I hope these techniques make it a bit easier. :)
@@MichaelShainblum & @nickpage I feel like I've seen a video with you two dudes... Death Valley maybe?...or the White Sands. Could've been awhile ago though.
Thanks for the tutorial! Very helpful! Updated: Seriously, this is great. I re-watched with a photo of my own open, and imitated what you did on a photo of mine. Please, please, please continue to do these type of 20-40 minute tutorials on photoshop. Pick a topic and crush it like you did with dodging and burning.
Very clean tutorial Michael 👌🏼! I would like too see a tutorial about color grading photographs. About some different color editing techniques in photoshop & ps lightroom, about complimentary colors and maybe some other tips that can be useful about using colors you know. 👊🏼
Michael - great video! I do it a bit differently - new layer, fill with 50% gray, then set blend mode to soft light. Pick Dodge or Burn from the menu and use my pen from there. Curious as to the pros and cons of each technique.
Well I have not tried using the actual dodge/burn tool on a grey layer. But I would imagine it does a similar effect. I guess I just like keeping it simple with white,black, and color selections. The main reason I do not create a grey layer and just brush on a blank is because the grey layer is invisible. Really the only reason to create the grey layer is so you can see what the brush strokes look like on the thumbnail. I just have not found it useful for my own workflow and like to skip that step, thanks so much for watching!
Michael Shainblum It’s funny how we form perceptions of people. I’ve always assumed you, being a successful photographer, would not have any issue buying any Apple spec’d product. Is photography all you do, or do you also have a separate job? I’m intrigued...
@@CarlCosby I do pretty well as a photographer and filmmaker, its been my only job since I was 16. I am definitely thankful every day that I get to do my passion as my work. I just cant justify throwing down 14,000 for a computer to do my 8K/4K editing work. I ended up building an equivalent option for only 4,000. 8K timelapses really eat through a computers power, so its a must for what I am doing. If I was only doing landscape photography I would honestly just use a decent laptop for everything attached to a 4k screen.
Michael - if you point at the word 'Opacity' you can click and drag with much more control than the slider under the down arrow. This is the same for most other sliders as well.
Thanks and more night stuff please, like how to focus for focus stacking in the dark. I assume you’d use a torch to brighten up parts of the scene to focus on?
Great video. Thanks! If I may provide a bit of feedback - please try to zoom in on what you are selecting in the toolbox. It’s really difficult to see that.
love this!You make it easy . Can you consider a tutorial on filters w long exposures, and your preferred algorithm for setting the new shutter speed, with filter on, preferably one that is not dependent on using tables or apps that one can easily calculate in one's head, and then blending different images for water movement ,thank you!
@@MichaelShainblum Michael, just kidding brother. I know u have a sense of humor, I see it all the time in ur videos and I love it. Sorry, need to correct myself "not a year, it's been a month. " PS I was not expecting to get any answer at all, not to mention in an hour. Who does that?! I love the way u present ur work. Keep it up and I'll follow" watch"
Great and informative video Michael. I have two questions: 1: Is the second photo a composite or did you shout it in one shot. If so which settings did you use? 2nd: In Lightroom we have the brush which can also be used to dodge and burn. Photoshop seems more advanced with the color selection and blending modes. Is dodging and burning better implemented in Photoshop? Thank you and keep up the great tutorials. They really help!
With a d850 it may be shot at iso64 exposed for the Highlights, but does it matter? Being there, getting the conditions and nailing the composition is the true trick. Regarding photoshop: it just better suited to work with layers, opacity, and blend modes in a nondestructive way.
A bit off topic. Would you consider doing a video about how you organize and store your equipment as a whole? I am struggling with too little organization. (Sometimes, I order something I already have.)
Thanks Michael! this is a great tutorial and it will help me with my editing for sure! Just an off topic question: How do I avoid the "starburst" effect when shooting the sun at f16 or similar in sunset /dawn photos? That's something I'm struggling with because I'd like to achieve the soft glow around the sun, like the one in your sunset picture. So, do I need to mask the "spikes" out? Thanks again, looking forward to more tips!
Hello Michael, great tutorial!! I realized you have Tony Kuyper Panel attached to Photoshop. Could you give us a tutorial on how you use this tool? Thank you in advance. Regards.
I definitely will be doing a TK panel basics video on here in the future. I do have a full lum mask tutorial over on my website, its a premium tutorial that goes over start-to-finish of a seascape image with blending multiple photos with the lum masks. Thanks for watching! :D
Hey Michael, very good tutorial. I use dodge and burning in Lightroom and i think it's much easier. Did you ever try Lightroom straight without Photoshop? Thanks for your wonderful work
I love using Lightroom for more global edits and some of the filters with the range mask. But for really fine tuned and detailed dodging and burning, I have found it just does not cut it for my own workflow. Thanks so much for watching the tutorial!
I did not fully understand the difference of transparent layers and the curves. Looks like effect the same. What are the cons and pros of each technique? Probably it will be good idea to talk about pros and cons of similar techniques.
Hey Michael, big fan of your images. I'm surprised that you don't use the pen pressure feature. That's the biggest reason that finally got me to try out a tablet for editing (which I can't live without now). Mind letting me know why you don't use pen pressure for opacity?
I guess its all personal preference really. I have tried doing tests with pen pressure vs just doing multiple pass low opacity brushing. I have just found multiple passes more intuitive for my workflow and allows a little more room for error (at least in my experience). Thanks so much for watching! :)
Thanks for watching, definitely a video for the future. I use it for Luminosity Masks, but I do have a full image workflow using Luminosity masks over on my website. Its the blending for dynamic range tutorial.
I was using the dodge and burn tools vs this - with the exposure settings - do you feel this is a more accurate way of controlling the highlight and shadow - vs the regular approach - I definitely like the idea of separate layers that can then be adjusted vs dodging and burning directly on a layer of the image
Hello Michael, thanks for sharing this very helpful. At the beginning, when I choose soft light after creating a layer, the image goes very contrasted while in your auto, image does not change. Any clue ? thanks
Sounds like you might be duplicating your image layer rather then creating a new blank layer. If you duplicate the image layer and add softlight it will add a bunch of contrast. If you do this on a blank new layer there should be no changes to the image before you dodge/burn with the brush.
I do from time to time and I think that would make a good tutorial for the future on its own. But for most of my images I will just do the dodge/burn like this, unless its a tricky file. Thanks for watching Robert!
@@MichaelShainblum As Robert i'm curious how TK panel works, so if you can make a tutorial on this panel too it would be great !! Thanks for all Michael, i love your job !
Regarding luminosity masks, do you think they are better than select color took applied to the mask? Luminosity mask for me were always guess game but select color tool gives online preview, but is this better or not?
Man Michael amazing tutorial. Really easy to follow. Love the first image from NZ. The water around the trees is surreal. The D&B added great emphasis too. Things to practice!! 🙂🙏👍
Michael, do you ever make an action out of your dodging and burning and then batch process them to produce a time lapse of an image sequence? Obviously the computer would take a long time to produce the intermediate files but it would give them an edge. Just curious
Interesting idea, I have not tried it. But you can get a decent result but using the brush tool in LR and then syncing all the images. I do that for timelapse quite a bit.
In a future video I will do one dedicated to the panel, or if you pop over to my site in the description I have a premium tutorial covering luminosity masks in that panel.
You can use the little arrows around the colors to change from the foreground to background color or the X key. But that is all that I know for color shortcuts.
@@MichaelShainblum Right, I guess what I meant was if I wanted to change the color (say it's too warm for me down the road) used on the dodge/burn layer, can I easily change it after I've done my dodging and burning? It doesn't seem to be as easy as other color changes given it's on a mask and not actual image data.
@@gschneider You can use an adjustment layer with hue and saturation or or another color correction adjustment on top of the dodge/burn layer and then hold "alt" in between them to link the adjustment just to the dodge/burn layer, then alter the color that way. The key to that is making sure all your dodging of each color is set on individual layers, or this method wont work regardless. Also if you are doing your dodge like the way I showed on the waterfall trees, with the curves layer and a mask. You can then alter that curves layers color cast by changing the RGB levels as well.
hahahaha funny enough I went through a phase of learning most hotkeys in photoshop years back. But when put into practice I just end up forgetting most of them. There are a few that I use all the time though, thanks for watching Seth!
Michael Shainblum haha I just thought it was funny and a bit ironic 😉😆 also just roasting you a bit. Haha. I’m finally starting to try to make the transition into Ps. Plus I just won a full frame kit in a giveaway (unreal still can’t believe it) so hopefully this next year will be a crazy year and I’ll LEVEL UP to maybe...half-Shainblum status 😄👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What a tutorial, my photoshop skills just jumped up to a new level. Thanks for giving your time up to improve our skills. Keep them coming, please BGWales.
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BURNNNN baby burn! 🔥
This is one of the best tutorials I have seen in a while. Thanks
Glad it was helpful, thanks so much!
finally somebody explained this the best way. thanks mate. you are amazing
This was such a good explanation of using the white/black masks to selectively choose which areas you apply the curve adjustment to. Thank you!
What a tutorial, my photoshop skills just jumped up to a new level. Thanks for giving your time up to improve our skills. Keep them coming, please BGWales
First time watching your tutorials, well explained. Thanks for your support.
Great Tutorial as usefull are all other your videos! thanks so much to share your knowloedge and your experince!
Thanks for explaining the detail(s) on your PS & LR adjustments - it is very helpful for those of us who aren't power users.
Thank you!!! It's very helpful. Looking forward to more teaching~
great tutorial! dodging and burning is one of my favorite tools to use! makes such a difference!
Thanks Michael, love these tutorials.
This is so informative! Just what I needed, thank you!
Dodging and Burning... Seems so simple yet so difficult to master. Thank you for this informative video. Seeing and expert at work will definitely help me with my own editing.
It can be quite tricky to get a natural look at first. But with a little practice it becomes simple. Thanks so much for watching and I hope these techniques make it a bit easier. :)
This is a VERY interesting video, i've never seen dodge and burn done this way, thank you very much for sharing your technique with the rest of us!
great stuff man!
Thanks man! We are overdue for a collaboration of some kind!
@@MichaelShainblum I agree man.. we need to get together!
@@MichaelShainblum & @nickpage I feel like I've seen a video with you two dudes... Death Valley maybe?...or the White Sands. Could've been awhile ago though.
@@gregorsnell We did a one day shoot, but I think Nick and I can come up with something more badass!
Thanks a lot for this video! Amazing shots
Thanks for the tutorial! Very helpful! Updated: Seriously, this is great. I re-watched with a photo of my own open, and imitated what you did on a photo of mine. Please, please, please continue to do these type of 20-40 minute tutorials on photoshop. Pick a topic and crush it like you did with dodging and burning.
Thanks so much, will do! :)
Very helpful thanks Michael
Great video, thanks!
Fantastic video, thank you so much for all the work you put in these videos. I think every subscriber of yours appreciates more content like this! :)
I am really glad to hear that, more coming up soon, along with vlogs and cinematic videos :)
Exelent video and tutorial!!!
Thanks man. So enjoy dodge and burn tutorials from the best . Such an inspiration to do better with our photography.
Thanks so much!
Hey, what a great video. Keep up the amazing work! I look forward to your next video.
Great vid! I would have never thought to d&b with curves... what a "duh" moment for me haha.... Amazing images!
Best landscape photography tips: hootadvice.com/pro-landscape-photography-tips/
Very clean tutorial Michael 👌🏼! I would like too see a tutorial about color grading photographs. About some different color editing techniques in photoshop & ps lightroom, about complimentary colors and maybe some other tips that can be useful about using colors you know. 👊🏼
Michael - great video! I do it a bit differently - new layer, fill with 50% gray, then set blend mode to soft light. Pick Dodge or Burn from the menu and use my pen from there. Curious as to the pros and cons of each technique.
Well I have not tried using the actual dodge/burn tool on a grey layer. But I would imagine it does a similar effect. I guess I just like keeping it simple with white,black, and color selections. The main reason I do not create a grey layer and just brush on a blank is because the grey layer is invisible. Really the only reason to create the grey layer is so you can see what the brush strokes look like on the thumbnail. I just have not found it useful for my own workflow and like to skip that step, thanks so much for watching!
Very informative...thanks.
Amazing sir thank you for ur valuable time
Thank you for this tutorial Mr Shainblum. Didn't know the color "Dodge 'n Burn" ...great tip!
Philippe from Belgium
Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you!
I love that you are using Windows & not falling for the peer pressure to use Apple !
I have a MBP for some travel work, I just could not afford a high end IMac Pro, so I built one at half the cost. :D
Michael Shainblum It’s funny how we form perceptions of people. I’ve always assumed you, being a successful photographer, would not have any issue buying any Apple spec’d product. Is photography all you do, or do you also have a separate job? I’m intrigued...
@@CarlCosby I do pretty well as a photographer and filmmaker, its been my only job since I was 16. I am definitely thankful every day that I get to do my passion as my work. I just cant justify throwing down 14,000 for a computer to do my 8K/4K editing work. I ended up building an equivalent option for only 4,000. 8K timelapses really eat through a computers power, so its a must for what I am doing. If I was only doing landscape photography I would honestly just use a decent laptop for everything attached to a 4k screen.
Michael - if you point at the word 'Opacity' you can click and drag with much more control than the slider under the down arrow. This is the same for most other sliders as well.
Good call!
Excellent Tutorial! Really explained it simply and to the point. Can’t wait to see your collaboration with Gavin! Should be great 😁
Thanks so much Michael!
Michael Shainblum You’re welcome. It was a great vid. On the lookout for your next one 😃
Very in-depth. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks and more night stuff please, like how to focus for focus stacking in the dark. I assume you’d use a torch to brighten up parts of the scene to focus on?
More night stuff will happen very soon! :D
Awesome, love the new one in NZ 💖
Thank you brother
Great video. Thanks! If I may provide a bit of feedback - please try to zoom in on what you are selecting in the toolbox. It’s really difficult to see that.
Glad to see you use the TK actions panels in real life...
From time to time, I would say about 25% of my images use the masks. To be honest I find myself using less and less luminosity masks recently though.
Love watching you edit! Thank you!!
Great and useful video, I just realized I have a lot to practice now on Photoshop. Thank you Michael!
Thank you, at the end please include Before and Afters
really well done, thank you
Thanks James!
thank you for the video.
love this!You make it easy . Can you consider a tutorial on filters w long exposures, and your preferred algorithm for setting the new shutter speed, with filter on, preferably one that is not dependent on using tables or apps that one can easily calculate in one's head, and then blending different images for water movement ,thank you!
Oh that would be a great tutorial for the future! I can do that mostly in field!
Michael Shainblum ,perfect🙏🏻
It has been almost a year and no tutorial.
@@johnkelly6888 Seriously man?
@@MichaelShainblum Michael, just kidding brother. I know u have a sense of humor, I see it all the time in ur videos and I love it. Sorry, need to correct myself "not a year, it's been a month. "
PS I was not expecting to get any answer at all, not to mention in an hour. Who does that?! I love the way u present ur work. Keep it up and I'll follow" watch"
Great tutorial, learnt a lot today. Did you use just an ordinary brush or is there a brush for dodging and burning?
Great tips, really well explained. Looking forward to more tips!
Thank you!
Thank you Mike ! This was really helpful :)
I am really glad to hear that, thanks so much for watching!
Great and informative video Michael. I have two questions: 1: Is the second photo a composite or did you shout it in one shot. If so which settings did you use? 2nd: In Lightroom we have the brush which can also be used to dodge and burn. Photoshop seems more advanced with the color selection and blending modes. Is dodging and burning better implemented in Photoshop? Thank you and keep up the great tutorials. They really help!
With a d850 it may be shot at iso64 exposed for the Highlights, but does it matter? Being there, getting the conditions and nailing the composition is the true trick. Regarding photoshop: it just better suited to work with layers, opacity, and blend modes in a nondestructive way.
Thanks for breaking it down :) Do you still do all this in PS or do you do any in LR now?
Thanks for the tutorial, Michael!
Thanks for watching!
A bit off topic. Would you consider doing a video about how you organize and store your equipment as a whole? I am struggling with too little organization. (Sometimes, I order something I already have.)
I can do that, although I am kinda disorganized hahaha
Thank you.
You're welcome & thanks for watching!
Thanks. Very helpful.
thanks !, great tutorial:)
Great tutorial 😊😊
Thank you!
Thanks Michael! this is a great tutorial and it will help me with my editing for sure! Just an off topic question: How do I avoid the "starburst" effect when shooting the sun at f16 or similar in sunset /dawn photos? That's something I'm struggling with because I'd like to achieve the soft glow around the sun, like the one in your sunset picture. So, do I need to mask the "spikes" out?
Thanks again, looking forward to more tips!
Hello Michael, great tutorial!!
I realized you have Tony Kuyper Panel attached to Photoshop. Could you give us a tutorial on how you use this tool? Thank you in advance. Regards.
I definitely will be doing a TK panel basics video on here in the future. I do have a full lum mask tutorial over on my website, its a premium tutorial that goes over start-to-finish of a seascape image with blending multiple photos with the lum masks. Thanks for watching! :D
I think you can use adjustment layers on the rendered video, probably it will be easier
Hey Michael, very good tutorial. I use dodge and burning in Lightroom and i think it's much easier. Did you ever try Lightroom straight without Photoshop? Thanks for your wonderful work
I love using Lightroom for more global edits and some of the filters with the range mask. But for really fine tuned and detailed dodging and burning, I have found it just does not cut it for my own workflow. Thanks so much for watching the tutorial!
I'll try thanks Michael! ^^
Let me know how it goes! :)
@@MichaelShainblum Ok! :)
I did not fully understand the difference of transparent layers and the curves. Looks like effect the same. What are the cons and pros of each technique? Probably it will be good idea to talk about pros and cons of similar techniques.
thank you it is really helpfull
Hey Michael, big fan of your images. I'm surprised that you don't use the pen pressure feature. That's the biggest reason that finally got me to try out a tablet for editing (which I can't live without now). Mind letting me know why you don't use pen pressure for opacity?
I guess its all personal preference really. I have tried doing tests with pen pressure vs just doing multiple pass low opacity brushing. I have just found multiple passes more intuitive for my workflow and allows a little more room for error (at least in my experience). Thanks so much for watching! :)
@@MichaelShainblum Thanks for the reply! Makes sense. To each his own, I guess!
Skin Softening technique for modeling such please
Love this man! Do you dodge and burn after editing the original image in Lightroom?
Thanks Carson, I do that quite a bit. I love doing a bit of processing in LR first.
awesome!
Thank you!
Thanks for a great video! I noticed you have TK panel. It would be great if you could show your workflow using TK and luminosity masks?
Thanks for watching, definitely a video for the future. I use it for Luminosity Masks, but I do have a full image workflow using Luminosity masks over on my website. Its the blending for dynamic range tutorial.
I was using the dodge and burn tools vs this - with the exposure settings - do you feel this is a more accurate way of controlling the highlight and shadow - vs the regular approach - I definitely like the idea of separate layers that can then be adjusted vs dodging and burning directly on a layer of the image
Yeah I just like the control and it is a bit less destructive then using the dodge/burn tool. But it really all comes down to personal preference.
Hello Michael, thanks for sharing this very helpful. At the beginning, when I choose soft light after creating a layer, the image goes very contrasted while in your auto, image does not change. Any clue ? thanks
Sounds like you might be duplicating your image layer rather then creating a new blank layer. If you duplicate the image layer and add softlight it will add a bunch of contrast. If you do this on a blank new layer there should be no changes to the image before you dodge/burn with the brush.
I see you have the TK panel.. do you find it helpful to d and b thru luminosity masks? Thanks for the helpful vid!
I do from time to time and I think that would make a good tutorial for the future on its own. But for most of my images I will just do the dodge/burn like this, unless its a tricky file. Thanks for watching Robert!
@@MichaelShainblum As Robert i'm curious how TK panel works, so if you can make a tutorial on this panel too it would be great !! Thanks for all Michael, i love your job !
Regarding luminosity masks, do you think they are better than select color took applied to the mask? Luminosity mask for me were always guess game but select color tool gives online preview, but is this better or not?
Man Michael amazing tutorial. Really easy to follow. Love the first image from NZ. The water around the trees is surreal. The D&B added great emphasis too. Things to practice!! 🙂🙏👍
Thank you so much Greg, I really appreciate it, the waterfall was really surreal to capture!
Michael, do you ever make an action out of your dodging and burning and then batch process them to produce a time lapse of an image sequence?
Obviously the computer would take a long time to produce the intermediate files but it would give them an edge. Just curious
Interesting idea, I have not tried it. But you can get a decent result but using the brush tool in LR and then syncing all the images. I do that for timelapse quite a bit.
Curious why you just didn't use your luminosity mask?
can you explain your panels and when you use them?
In a future video I will do one dedicated to the panel, or if you pop over to my site in the description I have a premium tutorial covering luminosity masks in that panel.
So do you not use luminosity masking at all when dodging and burning?
I do from time to time, with tricky files. But I wanted to save that for a future video, as to not have this one be 45mins.
@@MichaelShainblum haha understandable i haven't utilized your technique yet but i'm going to!
Yo dog! Goldang I love that NZ waterfall shot. The image you show in PS, is that post-raw development?
Thanks so much man, I think I added a layer of contrast, thats about it.
Is the wacom table easier on the hand?
Yes, that too.
I see Faroe islands i click ;)
Very cool, but we want More ;)
Will do!
Is there an easy way to change the color you've used for dodging/burning without having to redo the entire process?
You can use the little arrows around the colors to change from the foreground to background color or the X key. But that is all that I know for color shortcuts.
@@MichaelShainblum Right, I guess what I meant was if I wanted to change the color (say it's too warm for me down the road) used on the dodge/burn layer, can I easily change it after I've done my dodging and burning? It doesn't seem to be as easy as other color changes given it's on a mask and not actual image data.
@@gschneider You can use an adjustment layer with hue and saturation or or another color correction adjustment on top of the dodge/burn layer and then hold "alt" in between them to link the adjustment just to the dodge/burn layer, then alter the color that way. The key to that is making sure all your dodging of each color is set on individual layers, or this method wont work regardless.
Also if you are doing your dodge like the way I showed on the waterfall trees, with the curves layer and a mask. You can then alter that curves layers color cast by changing the RGB levels as well.
Dude thanks for the great TUT man! Also, you should watch Nicks recent vid on Ps hotkeys 😉🤣🤗 jk jk
hahahaha funny enough I went through a phase of learning most hotkeys in photoshop years back. But when put into practice I just end up forgetting most of them. There are a few that I use all the time though, thanks for watching Seth!
Michael Shainblum haha I just thought it was funny and a bit ironic 😉😆 also just roasting you a bit. Haha. I’m finally starting to try to make the transition into Ps. Plus I just won a full frame kit in a giveaway (unreal still can’t believe it) so hopefully this next year will be a crazy year and I’ll LEVEL UP to maybe...half-Shainblum status 😄👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
WTF IS IT WITH ALL THEM LITTLE WINDOWS SO CONFUSING
hahahaha
This is not dodge and burn…
alrighty
sorry mate but they look exactly the same start to finish .. waste of time bloke , what a crock that was , dear oh dear
What a tutorial, my photoshop skills just jumped up to a new level. Thanks for giving your time up to improve our skills. Keep them coming, please BGWales.