More Thoughts on The Lightroom Dehaze Control
![With the dehaze adjustment in Lightroom (right) the sky and distant hills look good, but the foreground looks poor.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wildlifeinpixels.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-27-at-14.49.06-900x625.jpg?resize=584%2C406)
With the dehaze adjustment in Lightroom (right) the sky and distant hills look good, but the foreground looks poor.
In my previous post I did say I’d be uploading another video reflecting my thoughts on the Lightroom/ACR dehaze adjustment.
And I’ve just done that – AND I’ve made a concious effort to keep the ramblings down too..!
In the video I look at the effects of the dehaze adjustment on 4 very different images, and alternative ways of obtaining similar or better results without it.
You may see some ‘banding’ on the third image I work on – this is down to YouTube video compression.
In conclusion I have to say that I find the dehaze ‘tool’ something of an anti-climax if I’m honest. In fairly small positive amounts it can work exceptionally well in terms of a quick work flow on relatively short dynamic range images. But I’m not a really big fan in general, and It’s possible to create pretty much the same adjustments using the existing Lightroom tools.
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