Photos that "glow"...

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  kwcrow Registered Users Posts: 132 Major grins

  October 18, 2009 edited October 18, 2009

  Megs14 wrote:

  Seems like a lot of wedding and engagement photos have a "glow" to them, with loads of light/highlights. Can someone give me advice on how to achieve this in Lightroom? Thanks

  
  Lower the clarity setting!

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  pathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,698 moderator

  October 18, 2009 edited October 18, 2009

  Lightroom does not offer layers or a Gaussian blur, so as the previous poster suggested, the only real option I am aware of is negative Clairity in fairly large doses.

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  Megs14 Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins

  October 19, 2009 edited October 19, 2009

  pathfinder wrote:

  Lightroom does not offer layers or a Gaussian blur, so as the previous poster suggested, the only real option I am aware of is negative Clairity in fairly large doses.

  
  Thanks, I do have Photoshop too. I will look up about Gaussian blur. I am getting through a book slowly about Photoshop... hard when I work so much at my "real" job!

  
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  malch Registered Users Posts: 104 Major grins

  October 21, 2009 edited October 21, 2009

  Megs14 wrote:

  Thanks, I do have Photoshop too. I will look up about Gaussian blur. I am getting through a book slowly about Photoshop... hard when I work so much at my "real" job!

  
  The "glow" is made using a Gaussian blur but it takes more steps than that.
  
  However, since you have Photoshop, Google for some tutorials that exploit the "Orton Effect"; that's what you're looking for. Here's one to get you started:
  
  http://www.phototakers.com/forum/ftopic68874.html

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  Art Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins

  October 21, 2009 edited October 21, 2009

  Hows about MYSTICAL LIGHTING?????

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  Ric Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins

  October 21, 2009 edited October 21, 2009

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4Ut8QipQk

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  divamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins

  October 21, 2009 edited October 21, 2009

  Also, there's the distort/diffuse glow filter... I prefer it to just gaussian blur. You'll want to experiment with the blending mode, too - "screen" is usually a good one to try.

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  Megs14 Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins

  October 21, 2009 edited October 21, 2009

  Thanks everyone for the help, much appreciated!! :ivar

  
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  pathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,698 moderator

  October 21, 2009 edited October 21, 2009

  Gaussian Blur Overlays - here are more than a few links

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