Yes. When I deploy the Clarity slider in LR4, I watch the histogram closely.
The new Clarity is wonderful for leaving artifacts in the past, but it does
mess with the histogram, though the effects are usually curable with a subtle
manipulation of the Highlights or White sliders. Clarity also can be "painted"
in where you want it, much the same as masking in CS. I haven't actually done
the full LCE workout since acquiring LR4. Before that, it was a staple.
--Bob
On Mar 30, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Moose wrote:
> The effects can be both good and bad, enhancing the apparent saturation and
> clarity, with the ugly side effect of
> obvious artifacts, like halos at transitions like foreground to sky. The very
> wide radius that works the overall magic
> creates such halos.
>
> It also tends to extend the ends of the histogram on many images, clipping
> highlights and/or shadows. I've described
> recently how to avoid both problems. I imagine the Clarity sliders in the
> latest ACR/LR may have been tuned to minimize
> these effects? Although the blown red channel in the image that started this
> thread sure looks like LCE/Clarity clipping.
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