10 AMAZING LANDSCAPE TRICKS

Over the next 16 pages, we’ll explore a host of tips, tricks and techniques for enhancing your landscape photos, from improving skies to adding rays of sunlight. Along the way we’ll encounter many Over the next 16 pages, we’ll explorea host of tips, tricks and techniquesfor enhancing your landscape photos, from improving skies to adding rays of sunlight. Along the way we’ll encounter many essential skills for editing photos both in Camera Raw/Lightroom and Photoshop. With a little practice and a few simple skills, you can start to create the landscapes you’ve always dreamed of making…

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1 GET TO KNOW THE NEW TEXTURE TOOL

Recently introduced to Camera Raw and Lightroom, the new Texture slider is like a finely nuanced version of the Clarity Slider. Like Clarity, it pulls detail out of the midtones, thereby heightening textures in the image and crisping up details.

However, it’s much more subtle. You can see in the split-screen before/after grab of the beach here how it works wonderfully over delicate details like the grain in the sand and the patterns in the waves.

Better yet, you can also apply the Texture setting selectively with any of the three local adjustment tools in Camera Raw and Lightroom – the Graduated Filter, Radial Filter and Adjustment Brush.

In the pier image here, after applying Texture in the Basic panel, we felt it was too strong over the