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Effect

Clarity

Add midtone contrast for punch without crushing blacks or blowing highlights.

Clarity is midtone contrast: punch in the textures people notice without crushing blacks or clipping whites. Lightroom-era tools popularised the name, but the idea is older local-contrast work from unsharp masking and clarity-style filters.

Use it when a frame feels flat in the middle tones. Ease off when skin and skies start to look crunchy.

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Example

Properties

  • Amount

    local contrast strength

    Range
    -1 to 1
    Default
    0.45

  • Radius

    neighborhood radius in pixels

    Range
    1 to 8
    Default
    2.5

  • Midtone focus

    limit effect to midtones

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    0.65

  • Shadow protect

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    0.25

Command line

Requires Rethings Pro. Install the tool from Rethings → Install Command Line Tool… 

rethings apply --effect clarity --set amount=0.45 --set radius=2.5 -i input.jpg -o output.png

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