Photo by Valerie Elash on Unsplash Welcome to Episode 1 of Painting with Lights ✨ In this series, I retouch black-and-white portraits using only dodge and burn—sculpting with nothing but light and shadow. 💌 Want your portrait featured in this series? Email it to me — goddesssubmissions@ 📺 Watch the full tutorial here on YouTube, and if you’d like to see me retouch in real-time, join me on Twitch I started this because retouching is often reduced to shortcuts like frequency separation. But to me, it’s much more—it’s sculpting, it’s painting, it’s art. 📌 In this episode: 0:00 Intro 0:34 Setting up the dodge & burn workflow 1:00 Painting lights and shadows 4:24 Sharpening and refining the portrait 5:00 The final transformation & Outro 👉 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to follow the full series!