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### 3.12. Dodge or Burn

The Dodge or Burn tool uses the current brush to lighten or darken the colors in your image. The mode will determine which type of pixels are affected.

#### Activate Tool

- The Dodge or Burn Tool can be called in the following order, from the image-menu: Tools/ Paint Tools/DodgeBurn .

- The Tool can also be called by clicking the tool icon:

#### Key modifiers (Defaults)

Shortcut

  The key combination Ctrl-D will change the active tool to Dodge or Burn tool.

Ctrl

  Ctrl toggles between dodge or burn types. The type will remain switched until Ctrl is released.

Shift

  Shift places the Dodge or Burn tool into straight line mode. Holding Shift while clicking Button1 will Dodge or Burn in a straight line. Consecutive clicks will continue Dodge or Burn in straight lines that originate from the end of the last line.

#### Options

| Note
See the Brush Tools Overview for a description of tool options that apply to many or all brush tools.

Overview

  The available tool options for the Dodge or Burn Tool can be accessed by double clicking the Dodge or Burn Tool icon.

Opacity

  The Opacity slider sets the transparency level for the operation. A higher opacity setting results in a more opaque render and a lower setting results in a more transparent one.

Brush

  Indicates the active brush. Clicking on the brush icon opens the brush selection dialog.

Hard Edge

  If this option is toggled on, the tool behaves like the Pencil tool, in the sense that there is no anti-aliasing, and pixels are affected in an all-or-nothing way, even if it is being used with a soft brush.

Pressure Sensitivity

  The Pressure Sensitivity section sets whether hardness, rate, or size will be affected by pressure for input devices that support this option.

Fade Out

  This option causes a transition to the background over a distance set by the Length field.

Type

  The dodge effect lightens colors.

  The burn effect darkens colors.

Mode

  There are three modes:

  - Shadows restricts the effect to transparent pixels.

  - Midtones restricts the effect to pixels of average tone.

  - Highlights restricts the effect to dark pixels.

Exposure

  Exposure defines how much the tool effect will be strong, as a more or less exposed photograph. Default slider is 50 but can vary from 0 to 100.

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