Burn Tool of Photoshop: Darken with It for Bringing More Focus to Your Image

Author: Manish Shrivastava

There is hardly anything that a designer can2019t do with Adobe Photoshop. In the exciting segment of corporate graphic design also, Photoshop has lent its helping hand as it has already done the same with rest of the graphic design activities. Professional graphic design has now reached a marquee position riding high on the wings of several Photoshop Tools. The Burn Tool of Photoshop is one such highly usable tool that has immense possibilities for graphic designers working across industries.

During handling a client2019s project a graphic designer needs to deal with a number of things. Sometimes, he/she may also need to lighten or darken a specific area of an image so as to bring more focus into it or to simply make it out-of-focus. While the Dodge Tool helps the designer lighten an area of an image, using the Burn Tool, he/she can easily darken it.

The Burn Tool can be located in the Toolbox just below the Dodge Tool and above the Sponge Tool. When you select the Burn Tool, you will see a set of options like Brush, Range and Exposure. You can select the brush size and type of brush that you want from the Brush pull-down menu. By clicking on the upper right corner of the brush palette you can find a menu for additional brush options. In the Options bar, you can also adjust the Exposure or Pressure percentage. Designers working in graphic design firms can tell you more about it clearly. But generally, the lower the percentage of the pressure, the less drastic the effect is. What2019s the benefit? It allows you to have precise control over the amount of lightening, darkening and saturating.

In any graphic designing activity, the designer can also select from Shadows, Midtones or Highlights by clicking the Range pull-down menu. Therefore, designers working in a graphic design agency can help you a lot in understanding the know-how of all these because they often keep on handling these options.

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