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Step 6

Select the Dodge tool and dodge the areas that you like. For a moody effect, dodge the skin so that it looks like the main light is where the person's eye is looking. For example, in the image below, the woman's eye is looking towards her left shoulder. I brightened the left side of her face to make that area brighter.

Step 7

Choose Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast. You can use this tool to adjust the dodge and burn effects. Because we dodged and burned using this non-destructive technique, we can alter the dodging and burning with the brightness/contrast tool. If you were to do it the destructive method that most people use, you would have to spend a lot more time correcting your dodging and burning with even more dodging and burning.