Dodge/Burn Tool

Hi. Just been playing with PSE8 and having problems with the dodge/burn tool. Know it's usually located with the sponge tool but for some reason I can't access them. The sponge tool is visible in the tool box but when highlighted, the options at the top are only for brush type/brush tool/Mode and Flow. Any thoughts?

when highlighted, the options at the top are only for brush type/brush tool/Mode and Flow
Just FYI, this is going to be true for all grouped tools--the other tools in a subgroup no longer appear in the options bar, only in the toolbox itself, but you can still switch by repeatedly tapping the letter shortcut key for the tool group.

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Since I almost always dodge/burn on a mask, the Protect Tones setting is not enabled when working on masks.
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I recognize that you want to use the Dodge and Burn tools for local tone adjustment, but it would be to your advantage to use another approach for dodge and burn. Consider this:
Dodge and burn, techniques that provide subtle local adjustments in the tone values of an image, are familiar to anyone who has worked in a film & paper darkroom. Photoshop’s similarly named tools have one notable shortcoming; each dodge or burn dab is incorporated into the image. This makes it impractical or impossible to undo one or more of the changes minutes later, when other dabs have been added elsewhere in the image. Instead, you must then pile correction on correction rather than modifying the original image values. It is an inefficient and often destructive procedure.
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5. Painting in white will Dodge (lighten) the area, Black will Burn (darken) the area. Strike the D key to place Black as the Foreground color and White as the Background color. To transpose them stroke the X key. Dab or stroke with the Black to slowly add density. To lighten an area, dab or stroke with White. Although the image will reflect the changes, they are being recorded on Layer1 and may be viewed by turning off the eye in the Background layer. Best of all: to undo any tone adjustment and return the area to its original value, simply return that area to 50% by cloning from an adjacent unretouched area in Layer 1.

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Deleting this question. I was trying to darken an area of highlights that had too little color to protect, which is why the burned area was appearing grey.

>CS4 added "Protect Tones" to the Dodge and Burn tools with very little explanation about what it does, yet the default setting is Protect Tones on.
My Link was in answer to your question in that it tells you what "Protect Tones" DOES.
If you wish to turn it off, that is up to you but there is no Preference available to do that as far as I know be probably because the Photoshop engineers felt that using "Protect Tones" would benefit the User.

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One can also create a burn layer and change blend modes, all with different effects. Then you can also use the brush tool and select color burn or color dodge, with the foreground color changing the shade of the burn.
So all of these options give a great deal of control, but frankly I am just burned out on the process.
All I want is to have the burn deepen the color to more closely match the color in the shadows of the picture. It seems to work better on flesh and soft colors than on bright colors. In those cases I give up and resort to a brush in normal mode with color selected by eyedropper. But that can make the image more muddy as it covers up rather than intensify.
So wilh all the man-years of experience out there is there a more simple way to get the correct burn shade than going though 49 different variations? Or should I just stick with the brush and use a different blend mode?

I never interpreted the Highlights / Midtones / Shadows setting to control "shade" so much as whether it affect the bright tones, medium tones, or dark tones more. I guess I normally consider "shade" to have something to do with changing color. Perhaps "shade" in the context of your usage is what I'm describing. But if it isn't, perhaps a misunderstanding of what the tool does is part of the issue.
By the way, I fully accept that my own definition of "shade" may be flawed.
I find the Burn tool to have a LOT of uses, and I usually tend to edit the pixels directly (rather than doing a bunch of layer combinations) but I don't think I understand your question well enough to offer particularly specific advice...
One thing I CAN say is that I always try to work very conservatively with the Burn and Dodge tools and gradually build up to I'm trying to accomplish, usually using soft brushes.
Can you post an example of a troublesome image?
By the way, another whole approach that I've used sometimes is to make a duplicate layer and hide it, then go back to the layer below and do global adjustments on it - e.g., Curves and Hue/Sat - so that the parts you're trying to "rescue" look good, then make the upper layer visible again and either mask or erase on it (again, using subtle strokes) to reveal the better looking stuff underneath. You're still "painting on" the fix this way, but your destination is preset in this case.
-Noel

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The Burn Tool is grouped with the sponge and dodge tools. Just click on the icons and hold to see the hidden tools.
location of all the tools in the toolbox:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/8.0/Win/Using/WSae2ea3b149d0c3591ae939f10386 0b3d59-7e2a_WIN.html

I could not find the "burn tool" in Photoshop 7, so I purchased Photoshop Elements 12, and I still cannot find the "burn tool". Where is it?

I could not find the "burn tool" in Photoshop 7, so I purchased Photoshop Elements 12, and I still cannot find the "burn tool".
Does the "burn tool" still exist? If so, where is it???
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Well, as I always say... If I want things done right, I have to do them myself.
I found the solution on the Internet... One must place your pointer on the icon that is presently showing and then press the letter "o" key to toggle between the Burn, Dodge, and Sponge tools.

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