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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
