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Next, I added depth to the finger area, which I thought
needed a little more dimension. For my dodging and burn-
ing, I held the Option (PC: Alt) key while clicking the Create
a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel to open
the New Layer dialog. In the dialog, I named this layer “dodge
and burn,” set the Mode to Soft Light, turned on the option
to Fill with Soft-Light-Neutral Color (50% Gray), and clicked

OK (the thumbnail in the Layers panel will be gray, but you

won’t see gray in the document because it’s set to Soft Light).

On the dodge and burn layer, I used the Brush tool (B) set to

black with a low opacity to paint over the fingers, gradually

adding shadows and highlights. (In the image below left, I

changed the blend mode on the dodge and burn layer from

Soft Light to Normal so you can see the brush strokes.)

THE BLEND MODES

Before we get to the rainbow lips effect and how I got from

the gold to rainbow, I’d like to give a brief explanation of

each of the different blend modes. Changing a blend mode

on a layer changes how it interacts with the layer below it.

Adobe Photoshop has 27 different blend modes and these

can be a little confusing, but Adobe has categorized them

into six groups to help clarify them a bit. These categories

and blend modes are:

NORMAL MODES

• Normal: Doesn’t change the way the active layer
  effects the underlying layer


• Dissolve: Transparent and partially transparent
  pixels in an irregular pixelated pattern

DARKEN MODES

• Darken: Darker pixels of active layer are
  kept in image; lighter pixels turn invisible


• Multiply: Multiplies luminance levels of active
  layer and underlying layer. (Think about what
  a photograph would look like if it were printed
  with ink on a regular piece of paper; the dark
  colors would be very “wet” and dark. This is
  the effect this blend mode gives to layers.)


• Color Burn: Similar to Multiply but darker and
  more saturated


• Linear Burn: Less saturated than Color Burn
  but still darker than Multiply


• Darker Color: Close to the Darken mode but
  it’s applied to the RGB composite channel instead
  of individually to the RGB channels

Normal Modes

Darken Modes

Lighten Modes

Contrast Modes

Inversion Modes

Cancellation Modes

Component Modes