Focusing Light with Digital Dodging and Burning

If you’ve ever used Elements’ Dodge and Burn tools, you already know how lame they are. That’s why the pros choose this method instead—it gives them a level of control that the Dodge and Burn tools just don’t offer, and best of all, it doesn’t “bruise the pixels.” (That’s digital retoucher-speak for “it doesn’t mess up your original image data while you’re editing.”)