Started by Callie Sutherland (@bytebard) ·
the Photoshop dodge and burn icons are darkroom tools
The dodge icon is a little paddle on a stick, which is literally what you'd wave over the paper under the enlarger to hold light back from one area. Burn is a hand with a hole made by your fingers, to add light to one spot.
6 sources · 31 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “why is the photoshop burn tool a hand”
- Ended at
- Zone System
The Trail
- “why is the photoshop burn tool a hand” (google.com)
- Dodging and burning (en.wikipedia.org)
- Darkroom (en.wikipedia.org)
- Ansel Adams (en.wikipedia.org)
- Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (en.wikipedia.org)
the negative was notoriously hard to print, and he made over 1,300 prints of it anyway
- Zone System (en.wikipedia.org)
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