Lightroom 8.3 has been released last week and there’s one fantastic new feature: a Texture slider. This slider deals with how fine details are rendered. In terms of range, it sits between the regular sharpening slider found in the Details Panel and the Clarity slider. The latter can sometimes go a little overboard if you use it at high settings and lead to that overly grungy ‘nineties HDR’ look. Texture on the other hand is a lot more subtle and is great to make fine detail such as hair, fur, lace or bark pop a little more without the side effects of Clarity.
Texture can also be used with negative settings to quickly soften the skin.
Below is the comparison of a detail of this picture. Once with Texture at 0 and once with Texture at 100. Image: Major TC Theodoricus photographed with the Fujifilm GFX 50S | 110 mm lens | Godox flashes and SMDV softboxes.
Slider to the left = Texture 0. Slider to the right = Texture 100.
In the video below I tell you more about this and the other new features of this exciting update. If you’re in a hurry, the part about Texture starts at around the three minute mark.
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