![]() Instead of just sharpening the out-of-focus areas, try to use the global and selective adjustments as mentioned above to make the areas that are in focus slightly more blurred. It may sound counterintuitive, but blurring your photo might actually help save your out-of-focus shot. Clarity slider for larger subjects and edge contrast.Texture slider for medium-sized and textural enhancement.Sharpness slider for accurate refinement on small details.My line-up of correcting out-of-focus elements using the adjustment brush sliders goes like this: It's better to use a large, soft brush to make sweeping changes to the clarity of sections of a photo, rather than smaller sections. It increases midtone contrast around large edges and does a good overall job at improving the perceived clarity of a photo, but doesn't make things sharp. The Clarity slider is also another good weapon in the arsenal against out-of-focus photos but a bit like our pizza analogy above, it's better at working at much larger levels than anything minute. The clarity slider works to provide more contrasted midtones and can provide more refined large edges than the texture or sharpness sliders There are three sliders that I want to draw attention to. Let's take the adjustment brush as the lead example in how to alter the sharpness of the photo. Using the radial filter, graduated filter, or my favorite, the adjustment brush, we can make selective edits to specific sections of the photo. It's more important to make selective adjustments to the photo. ![]() Applying sharpening using the Detail panel only serves to sharpen the in-focus section more, whilst at the same time also sharpening the eyes, so the problem never really gets any better. Take a look at the image above and you'll see that the middle of my dog's muzzle is sharp, but the eyes are not. This enhances sharpness globally across the entire frame though, so although changing sliders in this panel can be useful to sharpen up things that are already in focus, it won't actually help to resolve the issue of missed focus in an image as it will make everything uniformly sharper, including the areas that are already in focus. You can use the Detail panel in Lightroom Classic to alter the sharpness of a photograph. The Detail panel in Lightroom can be used to apply sharpness to an image, but it only works on a global scale, in that it applies the sharpening to the entire frame Flick through the before and after to see the kind of results you can expect to get from editing in Lightroom Classic. Let's take a look at what you can and can't do with an out-of-focus photo in Lightroom below. Can you actually save those images using editing software, namely Adobe Lightroom? Well, yes and no. ![]() So what happens when you don't quite nail that focus? When the lens was focused say, on the nose rather than on the eyes, or perhaps the wings of the bird are crystal clear but the head and beak aren't? Some cameras have in-built features that allow users to choose the focus point later on at the editing stage, but what about the rest of us who don't have those cameras? It's a bit more difficult to say "get it right at the source" if the event is not repeatable. ![]() It makes it easier to then embellish and enhance those photos when developing them in post-production editing software later on. That means dialing in the most appropriate camera settings and getting your focus dead-on when taking the photo. The key to great photography is getting your shots right at the source. ![]()
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