Demystifying Clarity

As I'm sure you've already noticed, v adjustments that we can make in the Basic panel, …well, they're grouped together, and they're separated by this thin gray line.…Here in this chapter we're going to focus in on the group at the bottom of the stack.…And I am pointing out this whole idea that these are grouped together, because…we're going to work on these in a way that we'll use them together. All right!…Well, we're going to start off by taking a look at Clarity.…Here you can see I've opened this demo file, clarity.jpg.…I've opened this, because I think this file might just help us understand how…Clarity works, so that ultimately we can know how to use this control.…

Well, in order to understand Clarity, we first need to start off with Contrast.…Contrast is an adjustment which allows us to make really big and …dramatic changes to our photograph.…Click-and-drag to the right, the image will become more saturated, we will have…deeper Blacks, brighter Whites;…click-and-drag to the left and we will lose a bit of our Color Saturation.…