Invoke the Dehaze effect in LR6
I see there are many people complaining about the Dehaze functionality not being included in Lightroom 6.1, well it is there but the sliders just don't show. In fact if you have access to CS6/CS5 using Levels and Auto does a better job as does doing Auto Exposure and cranking up the Contrast and reducing exposure from the Auto Level.
To enable the Dehaze effect you need to add the following lines to a Develop Preset:
EnableEffects = true,
Dehaze = from -100 to 100,
You are best to create your own because LR will also create a Unique ID for the preset.
Just a word of warning though Dehaze seems to introduce a color cast with hazy skies, but it is great with a negative value to create a foggy scene.
For example here is some template code you can copy and in this case I called the file Foggy.lrtemplate :
s = {
id = "BFAE70A6-F104-49CB-BB3A-7E7E630389CD",
internalName = "Foggy",
title = "Foggy",
type = "Develop",
value = {
settings = {
Dehaze = -100,
EnableEffects = true,
ProcessVersion = "6.7",
},
uuid = "60868222-B072-45AD-8205-1F0A50081EA5",
},
version = 0,
}
You can use Notepad to create and save as Foggy.lrtemplate to the develop presets directory. In Windows at: "C:\Users\ your user name \AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets\User Presets"
Create as many presets at different intervals as you see fit.
Enjoy, personally I think this functionality, with no disrespect to some of the amazing engineers that work on the Lightroom project, is as gimmicky and amateurish as the HDR Merge function.
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