Here's an excellent Photoshop tutorial from Martin Evening (whose books are among the best).
http://www.graphics.com/article-old/improving-midtone-contrast-photoshop I expect you could do this with Gimp as well. Other than the Smart Objects which you can safely ignore, the rest is pretty low-tech stuff that most image processing software should have. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bruce, > > Thank you for the suggestions. > Yes, I am using "clarity" slider in LR extensively for this types of shots. > (And in this case it is either maxed out or close to that). > I am stuck with LR <= 5.x, because of the 32-bit Windows that I have on hand > right now. So, the "haze" slider is not practical at this point. > > Could you please clarify how you do "midtone contrast" as opposed to general > contrast (in LR)? > > Thank you, > > Igor > > > Bruce Walker Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:37:18 -0700 wrote: > > The Clarity slider in Lightroom works miracles (almost). The new > dehaze slider might do even better here. > > > Lacking those, a combination of midtone contrast and unsharp filtering > with larger radius and smaller strength values can also achieve > clarity. Watch out for halos, of course. > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
