![]() Last step was to use On1 Photo 10 Effects and apply the Glow Dynamic Contrast Filter – Amount 58, Halo 22, Warm 20 and Sat -24 Detail Small -34, Medium -25, Large 58. Highlighted the Palm Beach layer and went back into On1 Enhance to make a few exposure changes on the Palm Beach image layer. Then back into the Layers module and the Move Tool was used to adjust sky around trees. Next the sky layers was opened in the On1 Enhance module and lightened up a lot to match the top image tones. Would normally use the PS Refine Brush to remove edging. Then the Masking Brush’s Perfect Brush was used to paint out old sky so the new one underneath shows through – used CTRL + drag in trees to get rid of some of the areas. (Go to File -> Add Layers to Files and found a sky to use.) The sky layer was placed under Palm Beach layer. Then On1 Photo was opened as a stand-alone and the Perfect Layers module was selected to swap out the original colorless sky with a new one. For this image, Lightroom Basic Panel tweaks were done. This also includes the ability to protect the Shadows or Highlights from this effect. On1 Effects offers the a lot of flexibility for this effect by providing 24 presets to select or using the individual sliders that can be adjusted manually. All give very interesting soft effects to your images and can be localized with masks or control points. So everyone should be able to create a similar effect. This effect is very similar to the Diffusion effects in Topaz (for website link see my Tidbits Blog sidebar) Glow 2 (which has many presets but not all create the above effect – still a fabulous plug-in) and Lens Effects, Topaz Black and White Effects and Topaz Adjust and even Texture Effects plug-ins (where the Softness, Diffusion and Diffusion or Edge Transition sliders can be adjusted), or in the now free Nik Color Efex Pro 4’s Glamour Glow Filter with a Glow slider, Midnight Filter’s Blur slider effect, or Monday Morning’s Smear slider result. The image above of a beautiful Palm Beach home is an example of one of their filters I like most – On1 Effects Glow Filter. This week I have been experimenting with the On1 (for website link see my Tidbits Blog sidebar) Photo 10 (which is now version 10.5) and am finding this is a much improved plug-in from a few years ago. I have always enjoyed a nice soft glow effect in my images. HOW TO ADD A SIMPLE GLOW EFFECT TO YOUR IMAGE
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