Dodging & Burning Master Course: Sculpt the light like a professional in Photoshop

This comprehensive course goes well beyond just "dodging and burning" and includes:

7 hours of training videos showing how to dodge and burn to bring your RAW files to life with vibrant light and depth. Broken down into tracks for beginners, intermediate, and advanced photographers to quickly get the instruction you need.
All high-resolution source files for the videos (including all the images on this page) so that you can follow along for 8 different scenes.
A focus on artistic principles to add dimensionality, movement, and depth to your images.
Multiple different scenes and chapters to address a variety of challenges in creating depth, enhancing sidelight, backlight, adding sunlight, landscapes, cityscapes, and black & white images. See the complete course outline for more details.
Written course material designed to augment the videos, as well as provide links to numerous additional free resources and videos.
PDF summaries of all the videos with time-codes to make it easy to follow along, no matter what style of learning you prefer.
Quizzes to help ensure understanding and retention of key concepts.
Closed captions in English on all videos.
Lifetime access to the course.
Hosting on a professional learning management system to facilitate learning. This helps tie all the various written and visual aspects of the course noted above into an easy to navigate interface, along with a commenting system to interact with Greg or students in the course.

And to help you make the most of the course, it comes with several great bonuses:

Bonus #1: Crash course for beginners. This includes a detailed overview of several methods (including a completely novel technique to multi-process RAW files that most advanced users don't know), comparisons to show why and when you should use the various techniques, and a deep dive into the primary technique used in the course.
Bonus #2: Complete luminosity masking workflow. This is designed to help show dodging and burning in the context of a complete workflow, as well as provide a generalized approach you can use when working with luminosity masks. This addresses one of the most common requests I receive.
Bonus #3: Keyboard shortcuts reference to help dodge and burn rapidly.

This course is designed for anyone who is looking to use luminosity masks to extract more color and detail from their photos and is comfortable with the basic concepts of layers and masks in Photoshop. No previous experience with luminosity masks is required, but is not meant for photographers who have never used Photoshop. The course starts at a very basic level and then proceeds to increasingly advanced concepts as you work through the course, so that you can start at the level most appropriate for you and work toward advanced techniques. The course is broken down into clearly labeled sections so that you can easily start at the most appropriate point for your skill level.

No. While the course is recorded using Lumenzia to create and use luminosity masks, the general concepts used should be applicable to other luminosity masking approaches. I don’t want anyone to be left out, so the course also includes some basic information on how you can adapt the steps shown with Lumenzia to other approaches, such as with my free luminosity masking panel. You can buy Lumenzia at a significant discount when purchased with this course (just select the upgrade option during checkout). The course is also recorded using Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) to process RAW files, but the general concepts should apply to whichever RAW processing software you may use.

The videos that come with Lumenzia are meant to help explain the way Lumenzia works in general, as well as details on several features which are not necessarily related to dodging & burning. The included and free Lumenzia training includes some basic information on dodging and burning, but it is only a tiny fraction of the material this course covers. By focusing on the topic, this course is able to go much deeper into the artistic principles behind making a great image, dodging & burning workflow, how to make images look more 3-dimensional, scene-specific challenges, and how to troubleshoot common issues. To avoid redundant content, the course references Lumenzia training material where basic knowledge of Lumenzia is assumed. Scroll down this page for more specifics.

You can use the iOS app to view the videos offline. You can also stream the content on any browser or device. This course is presented through a professional learning management system, which provides for an excellent experience by offering MUCH more than just video files. You will have quizzes to help reinforce learning, written guides to accompany the videos with time codes to easily review each step of the tutorials, access to all the digital files edited in the course, comments to ask Greg questions or interact with other students in the course, and a well designed interface to help organize and navigate all the content. The nature of this platform also enables me to improve or add to the content over time. This has proven to be extremely popular with my Exposure Blending Master Course.

The iOS app is subject to the requirements and availability of the Teachable iOS app. This requires iOS10 or later as of November, 2019.