

Everyone nowadays loves the orange/sun glare/hazy look to their portraits. This tool may save some images, but it can only do so much to a select few circumstances.Ĭlever tip: know it or not, this tool can be used to RE-haze photos. If you aren't happy, go back to what you usually do. How it should be used: If you notice an image is a bit flat and lacking in overall dynamic reach, give the dehaze tool a quick tug and see if it helps. Well, since it bumps up the saturation significantly and messes with the highlights, you could easily ruin a decent shot. Not "magically fix a bad photo." I made this mistake early on and started to use it for every photo I didn't like. When you aren't happy with an image, just use that dehaze tool, right? Wrong. I have found that it is very, VERY easy to get lazy and overuse this tool.

This tool has the ability to save an image with a simple drag of the mouse. This single tool can take a lost and hopeless image to something that is usable, and sometimes even great. I can keep going and going with more examples, but I think you get the idea.

I was shooting into the sun, so the shot was very flat and unflattering (no detail, no blue sky, no contrast, etc.) This first shot is a simple landscape shot taken on a sunny day. Click the left/right arrows to see the before and after images. Get ready for the results to blow your mind like they did mine. I went out and purposefully took some shots during a humid muggy day with lots of air moisture, and some more during a very hot day with harsh sun. If you don't know what that means, it's basically anything that will make your photo unclear harsh sun, fog, light snow, etc. Until I tried it with some seriously hazed images. It looked like it was messing with the highlights and some saturation, but it wasn't that impressive. I used images that weren't necessarily hazy, but I wanted to see it work. I updated my CC and started playing with it with some old images I had.

Like everyone else, I was curious to see the much anticipated dehaze tool in action (Adobe was promoting it out the wazoo). He new Lightroom is out, and I have been playing with the highly anticipated dehaze tool all week.
