Walt: This was most helpful! Big thanks, Walt. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hamler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
