I'm currently working for a degree in animation & motion graphics. I'm taking a digital photography course this term and I have been watching your videos instead of the lectures provided by my professor to learn techniques. You have such a warm and approachable presentation in all of your videos and they are so engaging and easy to follow! You are a natural teacher and I am so grateful to have found this channel. Keep up the excellent work!

Usually, I see this type of video, and it is either ridiculously difficult or overly simplistic. This clip taught me something valuable. Simple without being simplistic. Thank you for the most instructive three minutes and fifty seconds ever! Highlt recommended!

Best video I’ve watched on how best to dodge and burn - you’ve nicely simplified things and it’s non destructible

This channel is awesome. I'm in the middle of retouching an image and needed to get some quick information about dodge & burn. Here it is quick, thorough, and perfect. Thank you Phlearn.

Wow, short, to the point AND useful=A keeper

Omg... this just changed my life. Love the ease and simplicity! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

phlearn teaches the way I wish my instructors taught when I was in graphic design and web design back in the day. I'm getting back into photoshop after a long stint errr, it has been a while. I do think that all the tutorials should be grouped but none the less these are fantastic and the teaching style is the best I've come across. God Bless

Aaron, you are undoubtedly the best photoshop teacher !! Thanks for the amazing videos you keep posting. There is always something new to learn!

You have hands down the best tutorials on youtube i have ever watched. Thx and keep up the great work Aaron!

Thank you for making it look so simple. Its such a talent to teach and you are great at it.!!

Awesome job thank you.Perfectly explained. I now use Vibrance and tool and Selective Colour with this exact same technique. The Brush tool is activated using B key on your keyboard and the brush can be made smaller/bigger using the square bracket keys on the keyboard.

Nice, slow and detailed. I was able to write down all my notes, edit your sample image and two of mine in under four minutes .... even had time for a coffee. Great work Aaron

Great trick. Thank you. Could you elaborate on how the apply image thing works?

Phlearn is Phrickin’ Phantastic!

Happy New Year PHlearn

You're like my favorite Photoshop guy. I can really tell your heart is in it, I love that!

Amzing lesson. I made my notes. Great. Thank you

Love the way you out these tutorials so simple!!! Cheers

Dodge and burn tools are very useful and I like using them a lot for my designs on my KZfaq videos. Another great video by Phlearn!! Happy new year everyone!! 🌟🥳 😁

Yaaa, m seeing this toooooooooo late........., but this is THE BEST video on 'dodge and burn', you explained it so nice and simple .......thanks Aaron

Per usual concise and to the point! I'm seriously considering just going ahead and subscribing to your classes!

Thank you for all your work.

I really love your way

love your videos!Easy to understand and follow along.Thank you Mr. Phlearn:)

Such a simple but very effective technique

Very CLEAR and to the point. Thank you!

You really are an amazing teacher. Thank you so much! *From San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Best Photoshop teacher in The world 😄👏👍

Eres una MAKINA tio , thanks 👍👍👍👍👍

Dude. This is gold. Pure gold. Thank you!

Aaron is the best!

Just by saying phlearn you later am now hooked to this channel

I gave this a try but did not notice much of a difference in the photo, maybe it was something I did. Thanks for the tutorial.

thanks Phlearn man :)

thanks. You rock !

Happy New Year Phlearn!! I've been all over your videos learning and overcoming my fears with editing in Photoshop.

very simple to follow. Thanks a lot

Thank you !

Awesome technique! Thank you for sharing..

Nice short and helpful guide. I love your guides since they 're still helping me improve my skills in graphic arts. You were there in my first steps and still going ;)

very nice as always. Really like your videos.

can't wait for doing it

BOOM!!! This technique is way better than the actual Dodge and Burn tools. Thank you!

Yes Newyear with a phlearn tutorial. Come on Release a Showreel like Phlearn Showcase or something.

Dude, I love this. So simple yet pretty powerful.

Much appreciated man, keep the tutorial coming ~

I like that idea very much, Aaron. However, the "Apply Image" is destructive to the mask, meaning that if you need to modify your dodge and burn masks after you have "applied" the image, you would get irregularities in the mask. I tried your technique, but instead of applying the image to the mask I used a "Blend If" for the curves adjustment layer. When I spread the black (or the white) cursor for the underlying image across the entire spectrum, I seem to get a very similar results, albeit without overwriting the mask.

Great lesson. Thanks for posting!!

simple instructions. love it

Happy New Year PHlearn 🥳

Love this new technique! A lot easier and funny

I really appreciate this. Thanks, mate

very good video

I’ve been using Photoshop since 1995 and still get tons of great tips and techniques from these videos. Thanks for making such great stuff!

Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial. Happy New Year!!!

Now i know, thank's ! :)

Easy and simple. ..thanks

thanks, finally i know dodging and burning!

You can take this a step further by using the UnderLying Layer slider and blending in the adjustments.

Really useful. Thank you!

So much better then when I use the gradient tool in Lightroom.

an awesome way for dodging and burning

Hey Aron! Happy new year. Your content is really amazing.

Ty

Very interesting technique. I using a similar d&b but without applying the image in the masks. Thank you very much :)

Happy new year

Brilliant! Thanks

Muchas gracias!

Sir your are awesome love watching your videos and improving my skills just because of you love from Pakistan

you the best

Thanks for this nice method!

Nice tutorial if you know what dodge and burn is, and want alternative ways to apply the technique... keep Googling to find out what dodge and burn actually is, and when to use it...

This video is so brief, it's not clear to us what the Apply Image is doing. Is it only applying the dodge curve to the lighter areas and the burn curve to the darker areas? How is that threshold determined? I guess this is okay for global dodges and burns, but not so useful when you want to apply variations to localized areas. How would that be done?

Wow....

Thank you for this photoshop trick

wow supper method! thanks a lot

Cool ffect and never thought about doing dodge and burn like this

Superb!!

Thank you very much..

thank you for this

for once he gets right to the point good video

Thank you ! Long tutorials can be a bit confusing at time, this just goes right at the essentials

thank you so much omg

Thanks for this. I haven't thought about using Apply Image on a mask like that before. I think I would have defaulted to using the Blend-If sliders, since those would allow me to refine how much of the shadows/highlights to ignore a little better.

wow

good

Thanks!

Ty so much

Thank you :)

Thank you for the best tips ever Aaron :-)

Good information, which I'll use, but I hoping this video was going to be about best practices in using the dodge and burn tools.

This one made me subscribe. Perfectly explained!

you just SAVED my photo

As Always Great Vid, but I Prefer the High Pass Dodge & Burn method😛

So everything was good till I wanted to paint... mmm after changing from white to black I just had my moving tool active, which tool do you use to paint for this specific action? Thanks great videos man keep it up.

I would have liked to see this on a portrait

Thanks! More videos about how design feed of Instagram, u know crops, export for Instagram.

You're tutorials are so awesome, easy to learn from, thank you.

Anybody can point out what trackpad and pen they think he’s using? Looks fun.

Probably this technique can addditionaly be improved by using blend-if where you could make the lightening effect apply more to the light area of the mask you have choosen to dodge and vice versa.