I had a hard time getting the dodge/burn to work properly. Whenever I was using it, no matter what settings I used or colors I had set as FG/BG, it still turned the burned area grey and then black. This was frustrating to me as in the darkroom, instead of the lightroom, burning just brings out the true colors/shades and details of the image. Burning in the darkroom seems to just put in color and not bring out the highlights that got overexposed. In the end I decided to choose a a black and white image to use. After burning the corner I wound up using the cloning tool and then the healing tool to blend it all in. I think I actually prefer the original to the new one.
For the filters I played around with a few different ones before I settled on these. This first image I also used the cloning and healing tools to put detail back into an overexposed section. The first picture is the oilize filter and the second is the newsprint.
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~beth
