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Radial filter

A circular/elliptical selection, or mask, which you can move around the photo and resize to get just the effect you want. Typically, you can adjust the area inside the radial filter or outside it. It’s a quick and effective way to ‘relight’ a photo or concentrate attention on the main subject.

Icelandic sea stacks in Capture One

October 4, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The radial filter tool in Capture One, Lightroom and other image editors is great for ‘relighting’ scenes to add drama and depth.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Tutorials Tagged With: Clarity, Radial filter, White balance

How to relight a scene in Lightroom

August 30, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Relight an image with the Lightroom Radial Filter

In photography, things don’t always come together as you’d want them to. Sometimes you get wonderful lighting but there’s no effective subject in front of the camera for bringing it out, and sometimes you’ve got a good subject but the lighting isn’t right. This is one of those situations. I thought the couple walking a […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Dehaze, Lightroom, Post crop or pre crop vignette, Radial filter, Vignette

Change the mood with the Lightroom Radial Filter tool

November 26, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom Radial Filter tool

The Radial Filter tool is new in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC and it can quickly transform the appearance of your pictures. You use it to create an elliptical shape which protects the centre of the image and changes the appearance of the outer areas. It might sound like a glorified vignette tool for drawing attention to […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom, Radial filter, Vignette

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