Dodge and Burn

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Below is the finished image. I also applied the Dodge tool, set to Highlights, to the bright areas of the main tree roots to make them stand out. I’ll come back to this later; it’s a very useful alternative to using the sharpening tools.
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Displacing Textures 		For comparison, I have modified the same image by making a selection around the tree, inverting the selection, and applying a Brightness/Contrast adjustment of minus 27 % Brightness, and minus 30 % Contrast to the area around the tree.
     Comparison close-ups of the bottom left corner of the image are shown below. First is from the image hand edited with the burn tool.
burn tool magnified results
And, below is the result of the same area after the Brightness/Contrast adjustment.
results of Brightness/Contrast
The Brightness/Contrast detail looks much flatter than the burned one, but it doesn’t look flat enough when you look at the whole image, shown below. This is because, in the image done with the Burn tool, I burned according to how ‘noisy’ each particular area was. A Brightness/Contrast adjustment is applied uniformly to the entire image, or selection area.
      The other nice thing that can be done with these two tools is refined sharpening. I’ll show you details, next.
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