Lightroom's New Dehaze Tool.

Woodyg3

Woodyg3

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I have been playing around with the new dehaze tool in the latest update of Lightroom CC. It seems to be a pretty nice tool for environmental haze. I haven't tried any really hazy or foggy applications. Here is one example of before and after. The only processing was +40 dehaze. Both shots have the same amount of sharpening.

DeHaze-2.jpg

DeHaze-1.jpg
 
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10 Gauge

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LR is always quick for me and my computer is 5 years old. AMD Phenom x6 and 16gb of RAM and it still shreds through all of my photos.

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Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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As someone who loves shooting landscapes in notoriously hazey Southern California (I swear, it's a curse) I rejoiced when I saw this feature was coming to LR/PS.

Now that it's here, I'm rejoicing all over again. It's just as good as what was promised.
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Moab Man

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I don't use LR because it's a foreign language, but it looks like I will have to learn a couple words of this foreign language because that dehaze is pretty impressive.
 
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WayneF

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FWIW, the previous version can do about the same thing. Quite a bit of Clarity and Vibrance (about +75 each) pretty well matches the original sample posted. Too much will similarly increase the streaking in the sky.
 
Woodyg3

Woodyg3

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WayneF said:
FWIW, the previous version can do about the same thing. Quite a bit of Clarity and Vibrance (about +75 each) pretty well matches the original sample posted. Too much will similarly increase the streaking in the sky.
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Here's +40 dehaze

DeHaze-1.jpg

Here's +75 clarity and +75 vibrance

DeHaze-3.jpg

No other editing except a tiny bit of sharpening.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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Woodyg3 said:
Here's +40 dehaze

Here's +75 clarity and +75 vibrance

No other editing except a tiny bit of sharpening.
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While the second version, with the increased Clarity and Vibrance, shows a definite improvement I strongly prefer the shot cleaned up with the Dehaze Filter. I see significant differences in the blueness of the sky/gradient, the mountains have better contrast and the shadow rendering of the shaded are in the center of the frame looks better to me by quite a bit.
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WayneF

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Can't argue with preferences. :) And it is possible that the very casually mentioned +75 settings might not be optimum for every case. Still the point is that those without the newest software version should not despair. Any version is a very powerful tool, with many capabilities. Two ways to skin cats. :)
 
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