Add Clarity to Photos in GIMP, No Photoshop/Lightroom Needed

The Clarity slider is a popular feature in Lightroom, Photoshop, and Affinity Photo, but can it be recreated in GIMP? In this tutorial, I show you how to emulate the effects of the clarity slider using free plugins. This is a quick and easy technique for making the details of your image pop!
0:00 - Intro & Resources
1:10 - What is Clarity?
2:06 - Step 1: Apply Local Contrast
3:44 - Step 2: Apply Luminosity Masks
4:45 - Step 3: Isolate Midtones
7:05 - Customizing This Clarity Method
9:29 - Final Thoughts
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Пікірлер: 27

  • @DaviesMediaDesign
    @DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

    Were you able to use this Clarity "hack" in your photos? Let me know below👇

  • @jesse7631
    @jesse76312 жыл бұрын

    Wow, very nice tutorial! Thanks Michael!

  • @crafti.louisecreates6824
    @crafti.louisecreates68242 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the great tutorial.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @MaximilianoNoriega
    @MaximilianoNoriega2 жыл бұрын

    Why waste time? I'm already hitting like for this video before it starts.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Smart man.

  • @skelebro9999

    @skelebro9999

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same.

  • @highlife859

    @highlife859

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same here I love his tutorials !

  • @Junior-ru1wd
    @Junior-ru1wd2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @gabimedia
    @gabimedia11 ай бұрын

    great video

  • @TzarBomb
    @TzarBomb2 жыл бұрын

    G`mic is really interesting, so many good filters.

  • @patrickfargie1146
    @patrickfargie11462 жыл бұрын

    This is actually really helpful, thank you! I can stop importing my Gimp photos into Lightroom now.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear it! Always good to simplify your workflow.

  • @victorokolo7711
    @victorokolo77112 жыл бұрын

    Hi, DMD I've been watching your videos now, and they've greatly improved my use of GIMP, Thank you. Video suggestion: How could we make realistically looks puddles on a road (image) in GIMP

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    This is definitely on my To-Do list! Thanks for checking out the videos.

  • @hasanhuseyindincer5334
    @hasanhuseyindincer53342 жыл бұрын

    👍👏

  • @wirelessguyny3787
    @wirelessguyny3787 Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps you have a better recommendation for me but I had been using the Clarity setting for a very different use case. Reducing Clarity to fix skin tone blemishes. What I found was that I could reduce the clarity and give subjects a beautiful blurred skin effect using Camera Raw Clarity (removing pock marks or black heads) and then super impose that image over the original and then bring back the detail for everything but the face/arms etc... I hadn't realized that Clarity affected contrast as you mention, so now I have another reason to visit the feature but I wonder how you might tackle what I had been doing?

  • @meckistromer2579
    @meckistromer2579 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video. In the video the mode of the layer Local Contrast is set to Normal. It does not work for me (Win11 Gimp 2.10.34). It only works when I set the mode of the layer to Screen. Is that correct?

  • @pitbullbaby1723
    @pitbullbaby17232 жыл бұрын

    Can this be used with Mac? if it can do you have a video showing how to instal it?

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes and yes How to Install G'MIC Plugin for GIMP for MAC kzread.info/dash/bejne/aImHqrijadPfmKw.html

  • @kdexpressoo6023
    @kdexpressoo60232 жыл бұрын

    Thx, I will try script soon If every object, layer was seperate. The same effect can be done with Gimp default tools? I do more hand painting. Layer by layer I just starting to paint with patterns, decals etc again. Because my hand painting was so horrible, I went back to basics to improve. I guess the masks could be used to improve patterned images better also.

  • @marilenagalindotabares4410
    @marilenagalindotabares44102 жыл бұрын

    Tengo la última versión de Gimp 2.10 y no tengo Alfa a logotipo ni tampoco GMIC. Gracias a tus indicaciones me he podido descagar e instalar GMIC pero no consigo descargar el Alfa a logotipo, me puedes ayudar?. Hablo español y las transcripciones de ingles a español no son muy buenas y cuando miro tus tutoriales algunas veces no logro captar los pasos que sigues. Gracias por todo.

  • @sreepaadamcomputerssreepaa5149
    @sreepaadamcomputerssreepaa51492 жыл бұрын

    This video's Audio not support why?

  • @lolitaras22

    @lolitaras22

    2 жыл бұрын

    Try clearing your browsing history and cache

  • @TheChazk
    @TheChazk10 ай бұрын

    Can't download G'mic to my apple computer, otherwise I'd have learned a lot.

  • @Eliaspraciano
    @Eliaspraciano2 жыл бұрын

    When you tell us that adobe's softwares are "premium" are you implying that Gimp is "low-class" software?

  • @alastairstuart6062

    @alastairstuart6062

    2 жыл бұрын

    My interpretation would be that "premium priced" is meant, which is to say "expensive".