Enhance Your Skylines With Radial Filters In Lightroom

Skylines often occupy a narrow, horizontal band across a photo and we typically want to add sharpness, clarity, or other treatments to just the skyline. Lightroom doesn’t have a “reflected” gradient tool to target adjustments to a narrow band. With creative use of the radial filter, we can make one! The trick? Zoom out and stretch your radial filter really, really long. I’ll show you how it works.

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Scott Davenport

Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photo books, hosts podcasts, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.

He also can't help getting his feet wet photographing at the beach.

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