The Dodge and Burn tools are ideal for selective lightening and darkening in Photoshop. There are lots of other tools that do a similar job, but there’s something about these two that will keep you coming back to them. Perhaps it’s the darkroom connection.
In the darkroom, areas of a print would be ‘dodged’ by shading some of the light from the enlarger bulb. A disc on a piece of wire would often be used, echoed in
