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Step Six:
Let's darken the sky a bit more by burning over it, again. Just remember—while you're
painting, keep your mouse button held down the whole time, or part of your sky will be
one shade darker, and then another part might be two shades darker (where the two areas
overlap). One more thing: up in the Options Bar you'll see a checkbox for Protect Tones.
That's the checkbox that helps to keep the color of what you're dodging and burning in-
tact, so things just get brighter or darker, and not sunburned and color saturated. I leave
this on all the time, even when I'm not dodging and burning portraits (which is when it's
most useful). Below is a before/after, and while I'm usually fairly subtle with my dodging
and burning, here I took things a little farther than I normally would, just to show a clear
example of the power of dodging and burning.
