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Another Way to Avoid Clarity Halos in Lightroom. Well, Sort of.

Another Way to Avoid Clarity Halos in Lightroom. Well, Sort of.

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

If there’s one thing that really annoys me more than anything else about Lightroom, it’s the halo effect you get when you use the clarity slider. If you haven’t noticed this before, I apologise in advance for pointing it out to you, because once you see it, you can’t unseen it. Once I figured out what it was I see it everywhere online. I’ve been on a quest to find away around it, and I’ve already posted a video about this before. Now I’ve come up with another potential solution to the problem. Or at least a partial solution.

How to force an AI mask update in Lightroom (useful when using plug-ins such as PureRaw or similar software)

How to force an AI mask update in Lightroom (useful when using plug-ins such as PureRaw or similar software)

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

On rare occasions, you might encounter the need to update an AI mask in Lightroom, but unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a direct way to do so. For instance, if you use DXO Pure Raw and apply an AI mask to an image, since Pure Raw employs its own distortion correction algorithm, the mask may become misaligned when the file is returned to Lightroom. This issue can occur with any software that manipulates the raw file while preserving edits.

New Video: Better Perspective Correction In Lightroom | Lightroom Quick tip

New Video: Better Perspective Correction In Lightroom | Lightroom Quick tip

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Video

In this video, I’ll show you a quick trick to fix perspective distortion in Lightroom that the Auto function in the upright tool can’t handle. Sometimes, especially when you have objects near the edge of the screen, especially if they’re circular, even with the upright tool, you can still get a bit of a distortion. But with this trick, you’ll be able to get rid of it!

New Presets Update

New Presets Update

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

Just a quick update on the presets that I posted about last week. I made the cardinal mistake of giving a timeline for these when I wasn’t ready. So, needless to say, I was a bit optimistic when I said that I’d have them out within about a week. It’s taking a bit longer than I had anticipated (it always does) so they’re not quite ready yet! But hopefully not too much longer.

New Lightroom Presets Coming Soon

New Lightroom Presets Coming Soon

Thomas Fitzgerald
Film, Lightroom, Preset

I’m delighted to share some information about a project I’ve been working on for a little while. As long time readers might know, I used to have a selection of Lightroom presets available back when I ran my own download store. Since I closed that in favour of selling on Gumroad, I have only really kept my black and white presets, T-Pan available. I had wanted to bring some of my other presets back for sale again, but when I looked at them I realised that many of them were quite dated. I started by looking to see if I could bring some of these old presets up to date, but I ended up with an entirely new set!

Video: Edit your photos using Only Masks in Lightroom

Video: Edit your photos using Only Masks in Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Video

Ever since Adobe added the new masking architecture in Lightroom a few years ago, it’s totally changed the way I work with the software. I find myself using masks way more than I used to and it’s led to me approaching my edits in a whole different way. To try and take that to the limit, I set out to see if I could edit a photo entirely by just using the masks tool, and not touching the standard editing controls.

New Video: Landscape Photo Editing - From start to Finish in Lightroom & Photoshop

New Video: Landscape Photo Editing - From start to Finish in Lightroom & Photoshop

Thomas Fitzgerald
Landscape & Nature, Lightroom, Learning, Video

I was recently visiting a somewhat famous waterfall not too far from where I live and of course I took some photos while I was there. We went primarily to enjoy the fresh air and scenery, so it wasn’t a specific photo shoot, but even so I got some interesting images. One worked out particularly well, and I thought my process for editing it would make an interesting video, so here it is!

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