Good tutorial, Nicole! The thing that I like about this technique of dodge/burn is that it is completely non-destructive and your original image is untouched. You just can’t permanently screw up! It also works in with other great apps, like Affinity Photo.

A better way of burning and dodging is to first add an empty layer, but don’t fill it with neutral gray or anything. Change the blending mode on this layer to soft light. Use the brush tool with either black or white, but set the flow down low, perhaps 10%. Then, simply paint over an area with black to darken it, white to lighten it, and keep brushing back and forth to make it darker or lighter (that’s what the flow does). It’s easy to undo by simply switching the swatch colors.

For this and other Photoshop videos it would be helpful if you included written comments or notes that restated the shortcuts you used. It’s difficult to follow the video *and* try to remember shortcuts I haven’t used before.