Want Photos with Maximum Detail? Master Texture, Clarity & Dehaze (VIDEO)
Today’s straightforward post-processing tutorial from the Better Pics YouTube channel demonstrates several great options for harnessing the power of Lightroom’s Clarity, Texture, and Dehaze tools to maximize detail in every image you capture when shooting in the field.
Instructor Damian is an experienced Australian landscape photographer and post-processing expert who regularly share powerful shooting and editing tips gleaned while traveling to all seven continents on the globe. He jumps right in to Lightroom’s effects panel and uses a selection of images to illustrate the magic you can create by modifying this trio of simple sliders.
As Damian says, “I find that the Clarity, Texture, and Dehaze tools really help me edit tricky images and achieve results that I wouldn’t achieve with the other Lightroom tools that are available.” One great trick if you forget the difference between these tools is to hover your mouse over each of the sliders. When doing so you’ll see a pop-up windows with a brief description of the tool’s purpose and what happens when you move the slider back and forth.
Take the Clarity tool for example. Here the descriptive window informs you that this tool changes the edge contrast of objects; namely, the edges that would be considered to be in focus. And the image on your screen changes in real time as you move the slider in this informative window.
The foregoing also occur when hovering over Texture and Dehaze without manipulating the tools themselves in the Effects panel where you van further refine each modification. With this timesaving trick out of way, Damian then provides practical examples of when, why, and how to employ these transformation tools to make images pop off the screed.
Once the video concludes be sure to visit the Better Pics YouTube channel where you’ll quickly get up to speed on other common shooting and image-editing techniques.
And don’t miss last week’s important explainer with a British pro expert who demonstrates the pros and cons of using Raw and Jpeg file formats for capturing stunning photographs of fast-moving subjects.
