358 Painting away Camera Raw “Clarity halos”

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week, I'm going to show you how to remove…Camera Raw "clarity halos."…Now, of course you're wondering what I'm talking about…because I did make up that term.…But it's a good one because you see them all the time.…Notice the tree over here on the right-hand side…of the photograph that we developed last week.…Do you see how it has all that white stuff around it?…That's not part of the actual scene.…That's a function of cranking up the clarity value…in either Camera Raw or Lightroom.…

What we want is this more natural effect right here,…and I'm going to show you how to achieve that effect…in the next few minutes.…All right; here we are, zoomed in on that tree…on the far left side of the image.…And you can see that we have these…unnaturally bright halos at work inside of the branches.…Compare that to the effect that we'll achieve…by the end of this movie,…where we have these nice, natural sky colors…behind the tree.…Now, I want to emphasize that this is a very common problem…