Well, there ya have it - short and sweet. STEP THREE: My fix for the midtones looking darker is to (wait for it…wait for it…) brighten the midtones dragging the Exposure slider to the right a bit, usually between +20 (as I did here) to +30, but of course, as always (say it with me now), “It just depends on the image.” You may be totally cool with that, and depending on the image, I often like how those darker midtones look after applying a bunch of Clarity, but if you don’t like how it looks, then go on the next step. The original is on the left, and the version with added Clarity is on the right. One side-effect of applying Clarity is that it tends to make your midtones darker (after all, what clarity does is add Midtone Contrast).
TOPAZ DETAIL IN LIGHTROOM MAC
STEP TWO: Let’s zoom in (Press Command-+ on Mac or Ctrl-+ on Windows) and then look at a before and after view (press the letter “y” on your keyboard to get to this side-by-side view). Here I was able to crank it up big time, because of the nature of the image. You’ll know if you’ve got too far is you start to see dark halos appear around the edges of things in your image. You couldn’t get away using this much on images that have people in them - it makes them look kinda bruised and dirty. I cranked it up a lot here (I dragged it over to +74), which works for images that have a lot of hard edges like this. STEP ONE: If I see an image like this which has a lot of texture (the street, the sidewalks, the bricks on the buildings, the metal railings, etc.) I reach for the Clarity Slider to enhance the detail and texture. Here’s our original image (it’s a stock photo from Adobe Stock). Here’s a bit more in-depth on it, including a tweak I do to get better results: I think of it’s as the “detail enhancer.” If I want to bring out texture our detail, I know it’s the slider to reach for. It’s a new year - lots of new Lightroom users coming on board these days, and so I thought I’d kick this week off with how I think about “Clarity” (more precisely, the Clarity slider in Lightroom Classic or CC).
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