Dealing With Halos In Your Landscape Photos

[@bruceatkinson932]

Very interesting indeed Scott. It would be nice if you could demonstrate this technique in ON 1 RAW.

[@Sean-Smith-Photos]

+1

[@harrykitch9239]

Great technique! Thanks for the valuable lesson. I have a bunch of photos I'm going to go revisit.

[@ScottDavenport]

Wonderful!

[@photonsonpixels]

Great tutorial, Scott. Those halos are a real pain in the neck. Thank you.

[@ScottDavenport]

Happy to help!

[@dktraveller8364]

Sweet, Another great way to use the awesome intersect function! Thanks Scott.

[@ScottDavenport]

Glad you like it!

[@sfbigdawg]

Such a superior method to the feather brushing I've been doing. Lifesaver!!!

[@ScottDavenport]

Great to hear!

[@mdturnerinoz]

Halos in my landscape shots are what you identified and helped me with when we had our 1/1 in 2015. Folks should really listen to you here! And, it's easier to fix now too! Thanks again BTW!

[@ScottDavenport]

Cool! And isn't is great that the tools keep getting better, and give us more options to fix stuff like this.

[@UnionMac]

Very good information, Scott. I'd like to second others here and see how you might be able to accomplish the same with ON1 Photo Raw. Thanks once again for publicly sharing your knowledge and skills.

[@ScottDavenport]

Hi Walt ... I'll see about doing an ON1-centric video on halo removal.

[@simonhome3605]

@@ScottDavenport I use ON1 Photo RAW and have been plagued with this problem of Halos. If you were to produce a tutorial video for us ON1 users that would be well received.

[@Greg_Ashley]

This is the best explanation of intersection I have seen. Thank you.

[@ScottDavenport]

You are welcome, Greg!

[@norbertalexy8803]

Hello Scott, thanks for this video. I'm using intersect a lot myself. But I was not aware that it was so powerful applied to the halo problem. Brilliant, I'm really grateful.

[@ScottDavenport]

Very welcome!

[@shlomoeshet8525]

Great and very useful tip. Thanks a lot, Scott.

[@ScottDavenport]

Glad it was helpful!

[@JoeHudspeth]

Excellent Scott! Thank you.

[@ScottDavenport]

Glad you liked it!

[@williamhager1872]

GREAT video! Thank you Scott.

[@ScottDavenport]

Thanks so much, William. Have fun!!

[@kateosborne7528]

thanks i was very surprised when i saw the halo in the original photo. Had tried the brush but this is much better

[@ScottDavenport]

Glad I could help!

[@joelwolski]

Interesting. How would you work this in On1 which doesn't have that 'intersect' functionality in it's masking?

[@ScottDavenport]

ON1 doesn't have intersection, although if you apply a Luminosity mask first, fiddle with the Window/Level slider, and then apply a Masking Bug with the Edges shape, you can zero-in on segments of a photo. Add in some brushing and you're close to what you see here.

[@ProfMary]

Really great technique, Scott! I could have used this a couple weeks ago. I had some photos that had halos. I had another photographer who suggested a technique in Photoshop. He said to create a blank layer, set the layer to Darken mode, then use the clone stamp to erase the halo. It worked really well. It would be nice to stay in LR so I will try this next time I have halos.

[@NakedInSeattle]

I use the clone stamp tool (darken). It works wonderfully.

[@ScottDavenport]

Hi Larry ... yep, another method. Always good to have more tools in the toolbox.

[@86BBUB]

Nice video. Pescadero Point? I think I took the same photo - LOL.

[@ScottDavenport]

That's the spot! :)

[@warricksmith5178]

Thanks for the useful vid. Up till now I've been relying on the clone stamp tool in PS, which can get the job done, but is some images can be extremely tedious and time consuming. Your LR approach might be a good alternative or complement in those situations---certainly, I'll give it a try! Thanks again.

[@ScottDavenport]

It's one more arrow in the quiver. There certainly may be cases where you have to go "old school" and knuckle down for some heavy retouching.

[@jayplatt8798]

Scott Kelby teaches a trick to use the clone stamp tool set to darken in Photoshop. It works reasonably well, but it is destructive. Your method is much cleaner.

[@ScottDavenport]

Clone stamp is another tool in the toolbox. Sometimes, that has to get used, too. When I can, I do prefer the non-destructive approaches.

[@usablellc6735]

This was interesting. I use Steve Arnold's technique in Photoshop. It involves creating a mask and using the clone stamp tool.

[@ScottDavenport]

Sure... clone/stamp is another approach. In the end, it's the photo that matters, not the tools used to achieve it. :) Have fun!

[@ericpecquerie4868]

I will take the idea of the luminance mask but I think I will use it in photoshop with a healing brush set to darken.

[@ScottDavenport]

That works, too!

[@thetiktokman]

Way way way too much talking head. Study documentary filmmaking.