Please look at the picture full size on a grey background.
I was chatting with a friend about Lr4 and the myth that halos had been eradicated.
So I thought other people might like to be aware of all the controls that can provide an unwanted halos at an edge with greatly differing tonal values. This is largely a problem for black & white users of Lr. Colour photographers generally do not require the same high contrast as the senior service.
The over enthusiastic use of the following controls can give halos
- Clarity
- Colour mix
- Over sharpening
- Adjustment Brush Auto mask
- Plugins – Silver Efex Pro 2
- A combination of all of theme
So these are the places to look and retrace your steps.
The picture above “Deserted Farm Wales” IR capture, Gold and Sepia split toning.
A big hello to all the new followers of my little blog.
(C) Andy Beel FRPS
Andy Beel FRPS 
With your using IR for the capture, I can’t tell if there is snow on the ground or not. If not, why are you using bluish tones? Seems inappropriate if the scene is summery.
Ed
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Hi Ed thanks for the comment. For me black and white is a medium of abstraction and extension without the need to replicate the tonality or tone of scene in nature. You pays your money and makes your choice. Just to confuse you a little more these where taken in October and no snow. Andy
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Thanks Andy, this is a very useful check list, even for none LR4 uses. From experience you need be very careful with any plug-in, for what ever treatment.
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Hi Peter Yes I agee most plugins have there side effects shall we say. Andy
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Hi Andy,
Please put me out of my misery and tell me where Adobe have said they have eradicated haloing. Try as I might I can only find claims that LR4 has . . improved it . . reduced the problem . . and the like.
I can mess up ANY image in LR4 and PS5 too, just give me 30 seconds and I would disprove the claim 🙂
But seriously, In my view, and that’s the key, I find LR4 a much better tool then LR3 was/is. The Clarity slider, for me, helps greatly to improve mid-tone contrast, but push it too far and OHHH!
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Hi Frank I was heavily paraphrasing Julianne Kost the Photoshop evangelist in a Lr4 beta video on YouTube. Perhaps I over did it a little, my apologies for your misery. Hear hear to all you say about Lr4. Regards Andy
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Ok, the headache has gone now, Co-codomol always does the trick 🙂
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First off, sweet shot.
And yeah, you’re right. I did a few tests with it to see how much it was improved. Vastly IMO, but it’s not perfect that’s for sure. I don’t think we cn expect it to be for a while now, but this is much better than what LR3 had, especially in the clarity slider!
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Hi Aaron yes Lr 4 is a much better tool that Lr3. Andy
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