I’m putting together some last-minute details for a Photoshop session that I’ll be leading in Guadalajara, Mexico, next week and grabbed this shot from my recent St. Louis trip to use for a dodge-and-burn demo. I found this “shrine” in a fantastically junky little shop on Cherokee Street. By duplicating the layer and setting the top copy to “multiply”, I could paint on a layer mask to regain some detail in the windows on the right. There are a ton of ways to achieve a dodge-and-burn-like effect and I plan on showing several during my session. This one is one of my favorite techniques, though. I think it’s a little richer than others.

I programmed Guadalajara into my iPhone’s weather app last night and see that it’s supposed to be in the 90s and they are predicting thunderstorms all week. Maybe having this lightning shrine on my hard drive will help protect me from a nasty zap.