I will be teaching another advanced Lightroom class at University of Phoenix with Arizona Highways Photo Workshops on Saturday. I was asked by a student to demonstrate a method for removing haze from photos. Although this can be done with various sliders affecting blacks, contrast, blue luminance and clarity I’m happy to announce that Lightroom will soon be releasing a “DEHAZE” slider!
It will not only help reduce haze it can also add it for an ethereal misty look to your images
At Adobe MAX 2014 last October, Adobe gave a tech preview of a new “dehaze” feature that was currently developing that can seemingly magically remove haze from photos.
“The Dehaze tool helps you easily reduce or remove haze, common in many outdoor photos like landscapes,” Adobe writes. It appears as a new slider in the Develop module:
I have seen this in action and I’m quite impressed
We can use use curves and plugins but this will just make the process so much easier and more effective…and nondestructive.
Here is a before and after
Suzanne is a professional freelance photographer whose work regularly appears in Arizona Highways Magazine, as well as numerous national publications such as National Geographic,Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photographer and calendars for the Nature Conservancy, Smith Southwestern and The Global Action Team.
Suzanne is a photographer, speaker, author and educator. Teaching Lightroom and Photoshop in private and group settings.
Suzanne was born and raised amidst the green rolling hills of the English countryside but is now completely at home surrounded by the arid desert and swirling sandstone of the Southwest. She finds Arizona a land of intense beauty and preposterous contradiction. Her photographs capture the diversity of waterfalls, snow-capped mountains, autumn leaves and desert sands, from the magnitude of the immense landscape to the smallest, most discreet of details.
The desert can be unforgiving of even the smallest errors, treating the unprepared harshly. But, for the few with passion, those who are willing to begin their trek at the end of the road, the secret world of the Southwest is revealed. Suzanne loves to challenge the ruggedness of the land, the great distances to be traveled, and intense weather conditions to capture images of Arizona and the Southwest that expose its many treasures and extremes.
Her images reflect her keen sense of curiosity, patience and the ability to see the world and its magic places in new and creative ways.
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