This is a really good Photoshop tutorial video on advanced dodge and burn techniques for portraiture. These are the types of things that are good to know for that one special image you’re working on. It’s not the quickest or easiest stuff in the world. This stuff takes time, but the time is definitely well spent. Most stock photographers like myself can’t afford to invest this much time into just one image or piece of stock art, for the sake of workflow and return on investment. These dodging and burning methods are definitely something I might do for a client, or for a very special marketing or advertising campaign where one portrait is the main focus or feature image. Editorial or fashion photographers and retouchers might employ this much retouching in their workflow, especially for headshots, magazine covers or article spreads. Here the artist/author, Sean Armenta, also shares how to work with curves, curve adjustment layers, and layer masking.
Tutorial shared from the Red Dot Blog.
