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Adjusting Soft Focus

You can use the Soft Focus tool to add a dreamy quality to your images. This softening can be applied across the entire tonal range or limited to the image's midtones. To target the Soft Focus effect to a specific tonal range within your image or the entire tonal range, use the Tonal Width slider.

You can save your settings as a preset for future use.

To Add Soft Focus to an Image:

  1. In Develop mode, select the Tune tab.
  2. In the Soft Focus group, make adjustments as described below.

Soft Focus Options

Strength

Adjusts the amount of soft focus. Move the slider to the right to intensify the effect.

Brightness

Drag the slider to the right to increase brightness.

Contrast

Drag the slider to the right to increase contrast.

Tonal Width

Drag the slider to the right to increase the tonal width of the soft focus and affect a wider range of shadows, midtones and highlights, or to the left to decrease the tonal width by limiting the soft focus' affect to a smaller range of shadows, midtones and highlights.

You can right-click a slider to reset to the default value.

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