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Using the radial as one of the local adjustment tools to highlight the hero is a great way to make it stand out and demand attention. Bring attention to a certain part of your image This helps to create a natural vignette around the slush and highlight the focal point even more.Ģ. A radial filter is inverted and a feathered vignette is applied around the main berry slushes. This image with berry slush has only global adjustments applied. Adding a vignette on dark moody images works a treat to cerate depth and dimension in your photos. This control includes the feathering, amount of vignette, area of vignette as well as the angle. Whilst you can use the vignette slider to create a vignette, apply a vignette using the radial tool gives you so much more control. Radial filters are great for the following reasons: The great thing about radial filters is that you can apply the adjustment within the mask area or invert it, to apply it outside the elliptical area. The radial filter is a local adjustment tool that applies an elliptical mask to a certain part of your image. Again, using a graduated filter will correct this in post production so you end up with an evenly exposed image. It just means that your image can look slightly dark on one side (opposite to where the light entered. Brightening your background to even out light fall offĪs light enters your image, its intensity gradually reduces as the distance from the light sources increases. The exposure is a lot more even across the whole image.Ģ. A graduated filter is applied here and the exposure is reduced by -0.45 in the red area. The window was located in the top right hand corner and the exposure seems a bit too high in this area compared to the rest of the image. This can easily be corrected with a graduated filter to even out the exposure in your image. It is also more overexposed than the opposite side. You’ll often find that where light enters your scene, that area looks brighter. Darkening your image where the light enters to even out any highlights or exposure.Graduated filters can be used for the following reasons: You can also control how sharp the gradient is. This gives your images a subtle change that still has impact. This local adjustment tool allows you to apply an effect on a gradient. The effect from the graduated filters is strongest at the edge where you start the filter and then gradually wears off. Today’s post takes you through three local adjustment tools every food photographer should know about (and be using) in Lightroom. And it will inevitably make or break your shot. The local adjustments tools you use during editing have a massive impact on your final image. Lightroom is a powerful tool for any food photographer and learning post production techniques is what takes a good straight out of camera image GREAT.