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Give your landscapes a mystic glow with the Color Efex Pro Glamour Glow effect

October 9, 2013 by Rod Lawton

03 Glow Warmth

Color Efex Pro Glamour Glow

The Glow Warmth slider adds a warm or cool tone to the picture. If I push this right up to maximum, it really exaggerates the reds and yellows, but the other colours are lost. It might work for a sunset, but it doesn’t work well here.

04 Finding the balance

Color Efex Pro Glamour Glow

But if I push the Glow Warmth slider back the other way, something interesting happens. This slider doesn’t apply crude colour hue alterations – it works more selectively than that. I’ve now got beautiful cool greens in the grass, but the leaves on the tree have kept their vivid red and orange hues.

05 Protecting shadows

Color Efex Pro Glamour Glow

All Color Efex Pro filters have Shadows and Highlights sliders. These are designed to recover shadow and highlight detail lost with the stronger filter adjustments. I’ve noticed after the previous step that the shadows under the tree are now much too dark, so the logical thing to do would be to increase the Shadow value to recover those darker tones. It works, but it also removes the filter effect in these areas, so they lose their ‘glow’ and vividness.

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Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Color Efex, DxO, Nik Collection

Rod Lawton has been a photography journalist for nearly 40 years, starting out in film but then migrating to digital. He has worked as a freelance journalist, technique editor (N-Photo), channel editor (TechRadar) and Group Reviews Editor on Digital Camera World. He is now working as an independent photography journalist. Life after Photoshop is a personal project started in 2013.

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