P: Glow, Bloom and Halation

Greetings all, 

Check out the new Glow Slider in today’s Camera Raw with options for: 

• Diffusion
• Bloom 
• Halation

Demo: 

 
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Note: Camera Raw is the Edit/Develop Engine powering the Lightroom clients. New Edit features must be built inside Camera Raw before the Lightroom clients can adopt them. Unburdened by additional cataloging, syncing, and other workflow tasks, Camera Raw can move more quickly to bring these desired new features into your editing workflow. Our goal is to eventually port these features into the Lightroom clients.  

I’d like that to be for the iOS too, not just the macOS and Windows.

With the really wonderful lens blur simulation tool, I would really love to see other optical simulations such as halation to simulate film glow or blackmist lens filters. 

Halation for those of you who don't know is a glow on bright light sources that spills further into the image. If you've ever had a foggy lens, that's sort of an extreme version of the effect. It creates a dreamy effect, and softens it while still retaining clarity (not quite sure how to properly describe it, but it's kind of a perfect meld of filmic softness and digital clarity). 

It would be very useful to do this without having to use a filter, which is an additional piece of equipment and can effect exposure and focus, and is ultimately a "destructive" effect that you can't change in editing once you've shot with the filter.

It's possible to emulate this with a roundtrip to photoshop or other tools, but that's time consuming and is quite fiddly and takes up additional hard drive space with copies. I'd love to have it built into lightroom as another nondestructive tool with sliders to adjust things like the luminance threshold/curve, size and opacity of the blur to be able to create more stylised filmic images.

Please, add lut support, halation, etc like the 10dollar andoird app "16mm" or like in dehancer... 

Hey, would it be possible to get an option to create bloom and halation effects inside of Lightroom? I'd love to see that feature both in Lightroom Classic and the one that I use on my iPhone as I edited there all my mobile photos.

@Andrew35683579v9ih 

Then why are you oversharpening in the first place? Two wrongs do not make one right.

It's a way to add naturalness and get rid of the over sharpened digital look. 

Well, some clients want the "film look" sooo just trying to provide them what they want, without having to use film which I feel is a gimmick. (Having shot film for over a decade.) You know, you also don't have to use the feature. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯