Why no [Alt] view of the sharpening mask with the Texture and Clarity sliders?

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September 1, 2022
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The standard Detail / Sharpening and Presence / Dehaze sliders work with the [Alt] key to display the mask being applied. I find this extremely helpful. Why don't the Texture and Clarity controls also offer the quick mask view via the [Alt] key? Is the scale too small to be viewable? Is there a technical limitation or is this something which can be added in a future update. (I'm using LRC 11.5 in Windows)

Thank you.

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Texture and Clarity do not apply a mask, so the answer is probably that an Alt-view showing the image in B&W doesn't really give you a better view of what is going on than a normal view. In fact, it may even be worse and give you the wrong impression.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

I would think that Texture & Clarity are 'Global' adjustments with results difficult to show as the [Alt] Sharpening mask. You might get some clues here-

TEXTURE EXPLAINED

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

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