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Quick Photo Fix With Color Dodge

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Color Dodge Photo Editing Tutorial

Need to fix your favorite photo in less than 5 min?

Here you will find a quick and easy tutorial for Photoshop/Gimp, showing how you can improve your images with color dodge blending mode. In just 3 simple steps you can add a professional touch to your photographs.

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Quick Photo Fix - Dodge/Colour Dodge

Quick Photo Fix With Color Dodge

Here you will learn how to enhance/fix your dull images in less than 5 minutes. By applying Photoshop: "Colour Dodge"/ Gimp: "Dodge" layer blending mode to your photo you'll create a high contrast and very bright result.

First you need to pick an image you would like to enhance, you can use on of your own photographs or you can download the image I've used in this tutorial here.

1. Open you photo in Photoshop/Gimp and duplicate it. Photoshop/Gimp right-click in your "Layers" box/window and pick "Duplicate Layer"

2. Now, select your duplicated layer and change layer blending mode to "Colour Dodge" and layer opacity to 70% (Img. 2 view in Photoshop) You can change the layer opacity to suit your image, different picture size or exposure can cause some result variations.

Quick Photo Fix With Color Dodge



3. Finally, flatten your image by going to Photoshop: Layer>Flatten Image/Gimp: Image>Flatten Image. Your photo is ready to save now.

Now you have a vibrant and professional looking image to share with your family and friends. The best to use in Portrait, Landscape and Macro Photography.

Final Result:

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  • nightbear Sep 15, 2011 @ 3:49 pm | delete
    Remarkable! I found this from twitter and I am fascinated. I downloaded Gimp a long time ago and have never been able to understand how to use it. You made this seem so doable. thank you.
  • Rewards4life Sep 19, 2011 @ 11:42 am | delete
    I'm pleased you found it, Gimp is brilliant and quite easy to use. You can get some really good effects from it, I know you will be able to do it!!! Thanks for stopping buy. :)
  • MaxL Jul 7, 2011 @ 1:41 pm | delete
    Nice lens! Keep up the good work, I always like to learn some tricks on how to improve my pictures (it's along road!).
  • Rewards4life Jul 11, 2011 @ 2:55 am | delete
    Thank you!
  • sidther Jun 15, 2011 @ 1:24 pm | delete
    Perfect timing to stumble across this lens! I just downloaded a 30 day trial and have been using it for 5 days now. I will definitely be back here when I start playing with more features! Thank You!
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