Lightroom: Question about Clarity

[Christine Aguila]

Walt:  This was most helpful!  Big thanks, Walt.  Cheers, Christine


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Hamler" <hamlerwalter at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Lightroom: Question about Clarity


> Several good responses, re, Clarity. They are all correct, it adds mid
> tone contrast or "punch".
> I have a routine when developing in LR, and basically it it "top to
> bottom". Do the color balance first, then exposure, etc.. Sometimes if
> my exposure is only a little on the low side, ie, less than 1/2 stop,
> and especially a contrasty scene, I will add brightness as it doesn't
> add exposure to the highlights. I will normally add a little contrast,
> but only 5 to 15 points. Then I add Clarity, usually 50 to 60.
> I seldom add Vibrance or Saturation, but on really brilliant colors I
> will lessen Satutation 5 points or less. To me this lessens and
> "harsness" to my eye.
> I use Recovery and Fill Light only when I have to to bring in details
> that I think are important. If overdone your contrast will fall out
> the bottom.
> On my K10 I usually sharpen to 80~85 at 0.7 pixels.
> Once I open the image into PSE 6 or go to Print Module I only size and
> set up to print.
> Hope this helps a little :-)
>
> Walt
>
> On 4/11/08, Christine  Aguila <caguila at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone:
>>
>> I have lack-of-clarity about Lightroom's Clarity function.  This is from
>> Help:  Clarity:  "Adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast." 
>> I
>> don't have an understanding of "local" contrast. What does "local 
>> contrast"
>> mean?  What is added depth?
>>
>> Also, I seem to like the photo better when greatly increasing the clarity
>> slider.  Fine.  But what's NOT happening in-camera (for example, do I 
>> need
>> to be making smarter exposure decisions etc) that requires me to add 
>> depth
>> by way of increased local contrast during processing?
>>
>> Cheers, Christine
>>
>>
>>
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