Graphics Programs Reference
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Let's say you feel like a particular part of your photo needs more
Clarity, so you've set the Clarity slider to 100 and painted over that part
of your image. You look at that area and think, “Even though I painted
with the slider at 100%, I still need more!” (Basically, you need your amp
to go to 11. :) Here's what to do (it's a trick I picked up from my buddy,
Matt Kloskowski, which he calls “double stacking” and it really works great!):
Step One:
Here's the image we want to work on,
and our goal is to bring out extra detail
in the headlamps of the car. So, go ahead
and get the Adjustment Brush
(K)
, click
on the + (plus sign) button to the right
of the Clarity slider (to reset all the other
sliders to 0), and then drag just that Clar-
ity slider way over to +100. Next, fully paint
over just the two circular headlamps. Now,
if you think they still need more detail
to really make them “pop,” but you've
already painted with your Clarity maxed
out at +100, what do you do? You can't
drag the slider over to +200 or anything
like that, right? Well, not without a work-
around anyway.
Step Two:
Click the New radio button at top of the
Adjustment Brush panel, and you'll notice
that your Clarity is still set to +100. Now,
all you have to do is paint over that same
area again—just start your brush stroke
in a different place along the headlamps
and now you're stacking a second pass
of Clarity on that same area (so you have
two pins on this area now: the original pin
where you applied 100% Clarity, and now
a second pin with another 100% Clarity
on top of that). Basically, you've got 200%
Clarity applied on those headlamps. Of
course, this doesn't just work for Clarity—
it works for any of the sliders here in the
Adjustment Brush panel.
