Watch the video: Use the Effects and Details panel in Lightroom
Effects and Detail panels are two of the features of Lightroom CC (Opens in a new tab) Together, they work seamlessly to bring out new details and depth in your shots, even though they are nothing new. It combines a lot of useful but additional adjustments that include changing the contrast, sharpness and noise to get a totally different picture.
You might find these areas useful when working on an image like ours here — something fuzzy, distant, or lacking in contrast or definition. Sometimes fog can improve a photo, but in this case we have two people to the right of the frame that we want to highlight. The mountains behind the subjects are shrouded in clouds, making them somewhat less impressive.
So we’re going to give this shot a boost of sharpness for a more striking and eye-catching result…
1. Clarity
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If you want to increase the contrast of midtones, you’ll need to change the Clarity slider. This gives stronger definition to midtone shades (rather than highlights or shadows) by increasing the brightness/darkness of the pixels. Be careful not to overdo it, as it is a powerful tool, so accuracy is key here.
2. Dehaze
Dehaze slider is an impressive and selective local contrast effect that analyzes an image before working on it, removing blurry shots. Use it to reduce or increase the haze and haze in your shot.
3. Vignette
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Create a darker band around the edge of your image by pushing the slider to negative values like we have here (-25), or a lighter band with a positive setting. This will bring attention to the center of the image, and it comes with a variety of options for adjusting its transition to the frame — you can even change its shape.
4. Detail panel
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Here we can sharpen the image, change the size of the sharpening radius, control the resolution of the Detail slider, and change the threshold for areas unaffected by the masking slider. We sharpen the edges of the scene with a radius of 2 because most of the subject is far away.
5. Noise reduction
After sharpening the image, we often find that noise has been introduced into the shot. To fix this, increase the noise reduction slider; We adjusted that to 36. Color noise reduction will help smooth out color noise more clearly in JPEGs, but we found a slight increase to 17. Be warned: you can definitely overuse the tool!
6. Cereal
At this point it is worth adding some noise – or, as the slider is called, Grain. It may sound crazy to add noise after removing it, but the Grain slider delivers a uniform and tuned grain, which looks much nicer than the original noise we removed, and you can change the amount as often as you like.
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