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Get Into Dodge

 

Anyone who’s used Photoshop CS3 (or prior) versions and tried to composite a human subject into an existing light setup knows that they eventually hit a wall with Levels, Curves, Color Balance and—even in desperate situations—Brightness/Contrast adjustments to match the environment. Careful use of the Dodge tool ( O ) in the right tone range can allow you to simulate key – and fill-light spill on your superimposed objects. [ The Dodge and Burn tools are more darkroom-like in Photoshop CS4—Ed. ]

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If you have multiple shots of the same subject and would like to be able to group them, image stacks are a good idea. Either Shift-click or Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the images that you would like to group and press Command-G (PC: Ctrl-G). This will create a stack of the images. You can expand the stack by pressing Command-Right Arrow (PC: Ctrl-Right Arrow) or collapse the stack back into itself by pressing on Command-Left Arrow (PC: Ctrl-Left Arrow).

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