Another Easy Short Cut

Thank you to ColleenP who commented on my recent post "The Burn and Dodge Photoshop Cha-Cha." This post was actually part of last month's newsletter. In the tutorial, I discussed three ways to burn and dodge - the tutorial was actually less boring than it sounds. Anyway, Colleen has enlightened me with an even quicker way than my techniques.

Here is her suggestion - A quicker way to do method 3 is hold the Alt key and click new layer in the layers palette, which brings up the dialog box, change mode to soft light and check the box to fill with 50% gray. Hit the above link to see the tutorial, and give Collen's suggestion a try. Thanks, Coleen for the tip.