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How to blend clarity?

Fabio Lanza
Hi,

I am editing a photo and I have two masks. At a certain point they overlap each other, but as one is brighter, the difference is visible to a point that anyone will know it was edited.

Looking to this scenario or scenarios alike, anyone would know how to blend the clarity between different masks?

I tried adding a healing mask on the area that clarity overlaps but it did not work well.

Thank you
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  • Ian Wilson
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    You probably need to paint the mask, or at least the edge of it with a very soft brush - turn the hardness slider right down. You can also paint at the edge of the mask with a brush with low opacity. Try for gradual feathering at the edge of the mask.

    Ian
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  • Fabio Lanza
    Ian,

    thanks for answering. How do I paint the mask in C1?

    Thank you
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  • SFA
    [quote="NN635376886096228908UL" wrote:
    Ian,

    thanks for answering. How do I paint the mask in C1?

    Thank you


    How did you apply the two masks on the first place? i.e. which sort of masks?

    In addition to Ian's answer you may find something looking a feathering on both the original masks but it's a bit difficult to be more specific without understanding by illustration what you need to achieve.



    Grant
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  • Ian Wilson
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    [quote="NN635376886096228908UL" wrote:
    Ian,

    thanks for answering. How do I paint the mask in C1?

    Thank you

    Hi

    You go to the local adjustments tab (the one marked with a paintbrush) and you click the + sign to add a new layer. You can just leave it called New Layer but you can give it a more meaningful name like "Sky extra clarity" or whatever suits.

    Then click the paintbrush tool and your cursor should change to a circle. Right click to see the settings, and you can adjust the size of the brush, the opacity, and the hardness. If I were painting over a sky area to adjust its colour, contrast, clarity, etc, I would use a fairly large brush, with 100% opacity and zero hardness (to give a nicely feathered edge). Paint over the area you want (while you are painting it shows red - but you can set it to always or never show it). The central circle gets 100% opacity, then between the two rings it fades down to zero at the edge. Try to get the mask fading down over the horizon or other boundary of the sky.

    Then you can adjust whatever it is you want to change for the sky - exposure, contrast, brightness, saturation etc. If it adjusts a place you didn't mean it to, or misses a place you wanted it to change, you can paint more mask or erase parts of the mask. Pressing e and b on the keyboard changes between erase and brush.

    See the help here for more. . Also try this YouTube video.

    It's easiest to try all this out on an image to get the feel of it. All the adjustments in C1 are non-destructive so you can't do any harm. You can make a clone of a variant if you like so that you can compare easily the adjusted and non-adjusted version.

    Ian

    [Edited once to correct a couple of typos.]
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  • Fabio Lanza
    thanks Ian
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