Making a second-pass calculation

In this exercise, we're going to refine our first pass calculation using the Burn tool.…I've saved my progress as First-pass calculation.psd, it's found inside…the 04_tough folder.…And because I don't want to harm this base channel, I'm going to go ahead and…duplicate it by dragging it and dropping it on that little page icon, and then…I'm going to call this one 1st Pass.…And now I'll go ahead and select the Burn tool from the Dodge tool fly-out menu.…Make sure that the Range is set to Shadows and the Exposure for the best results…here should be set to 50%.…

Go ahead and paint in the background like so, in order to get rid of these areas…of gray over here in the right-hand side and then just sort of click toward the…hair in order to dim this area down so that we're just left with the hair…details as much is possible.…Now you don't want to carve in too far so, if you leave a little bit of extra…gray over here in the side of a hair that's okay, then you can feel free to just…paint around the earrings, because we'll reestablish those later.…