Dodge / Burn tool - GIMP Beginners' Guide ep103 Video Lecture | A GIMP Guide for Beginners - Design Softwares

hi in this video I'll talk about the
Dutch burnt - and as you can see just
like the blur sharpen - we have two
opposite tools in one here the Dodge
tool brightens the pixels that were
affecting with the selected brush and
the burn - darkens those pixels because
we are affecting with our selected brush
now some of the options here until type
are familiar from previous videos on our
paint tools I'm not going to discuss
them in the type here controls which -
we are using the Dodge or burn tool we
can select it with our mouse or with the
control key but make sure you have the
main window active to be able to toggle
between them the next thing here range
this controls the range of pixels that
we are affecting and for example here on
shadows I will be dodging only the
darkest pixels in the mid-tones I'll be
affecting the mid-tone pixels highlights
I'm supposed to be affecting only the
brightest pixels but let me show here in
this dark area with this setting I'm not
supposed to be affecting these pixels at
all if I make a stroke and I undo it
control Z you see the difference I redo
it with ctrl Y you see how I am
affecting those pixels even though I
have this highlight setting here so this
too is not the best tool in game
hopefully in the future will be better
and same thing is with burn here you can
control which range of pixels you want
to darken the exposure here controls the
strength and the strength of the - so if
I'm dodging right now if I go all the
way up to here with 50 you see what's
happening
control Z that we're a hundred the
effect is much stronger
so this controls the strength of the
tool now let's for example use the Dodge
tool to remove this shadow here we'll
use it on highlights a little bit less
exposure and have in mind that you have
to release the mouse and paint over
again to build up the effect so you see
how we can remove shadows like that
using this tool
and of course also brighten or darken
areas of an image that we want to now we
have other tools who can brighten or
darken an image but they are affecting
an entire image layer layer mask or
selection and here we have a ability to
use a brush to make more sophisticated
editing to our images now this is the
last tool here in the tool box
having minded here and tools you can see
color tools we have some more tools that
we are going to discuss you can also
find them in the colors menu here so we
have more tools upcoming but before I go
to them I'll probably jump here to
discuss palettes how to create your own
palettes gradients parents brushes
animated brushes so because we already
covered these tools using these
gradients palettes and so on so we'll
see how we can create our own so bye for
now
thanks for watching