Commercial Photography Practice Exam

Dodging lightens the selected parts of an image by increasing exposure in those areas, a local brightness adjustment that brightens only the brushed regions while leaving the rest of the image untouched. This focused lightening is exactly what dodging does, which is why it’s described as lightening the chosen parts. The other options describe different edits: darkening would reduce brightness, blurring smooths details rather than brightness, and sharpening enhances edge contrast without inherently changing overall lightness.