A Little-known Lightroom Feature Comes To The Rescue
Happy Tuesday, everybody. đ
I actually ran this particular tip last week on my daily blog at scottkelby.com, showing how to do it in Camera Raw, but I thought some of you folks here might find it useful since it works exactly the same in Lightroom. Here’s how the idea to share this came about:
So, Brad had set up and taken this photo of my gear (for use on Social Media), and when I opened it in Lightroom I noticed something âfunkyâ when I zoomed in on the camera bag on the rightâŠ
Above:Â I zoomed in so you can see it â itâs a âmoireâ pattern, which is an unwanted repeating color pattern that appears over part of your image, probably most often on clothing (when you least expect it, and sometimes on objects where youâd least expect it, like a camera bag). In this case, itâs that blue and gold series of zebra stripes covering the entire front of the camera bag.
Luckily, this is such a common occurrence that Lightroom has a feature dedicated to fixing it.
Above:Â In Lightroomâs Develop Module, go to the Adjustment Brush, and in the the Brush controls youâll see a slider for âMoire Reductionâ (shown circled here in red). I started by getting the amount at +50 to see how it would do.
Above: I set my brush to a large size and started painting over the bag andâŠvoila! The Moire is gone! Well, at a setting of 50% it was mostly gone, but I could still see a bit, so I dragged the slider to the right to +65 and then it was gone.
Above:Â Hereâs a before and after, where you can see the blue and gold on the left, and on the right in the âafterâ view, you can see itâs pretty much gone.
The first part is beginning to recognize the signs of a moire pattern, because after all, if you donât know what it looks like, you wonât realize it needs correcting. At least now, if you do run across a moire, you know how to quickly and easily fix it. đ
Ahhhhh, thatâs a moire! (sorry, I couldnât help myself).
Hope you have a great Tuesday!
Best,
-Scott
P.S. I’m headed out to Richmond, Virginia today (Brrrrrr!) for my seminar there tomorrow. I’ll be teaching the seminar in Atlanta on Friday if you want to come out. đ
P.S.S. If you want to see my wife’s take on the gear load out I showed in this tutorial, jump over to my blog today – her load out isâŠwellâŠlet’s just say she has some pretty tasty gear in there. đ
Very Helpful Tutorial, Thanks for Sharing
Enlightening piece
Thanks for the tip
As Dean Martin used to sing
“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie”
And sing it well too!
Great tip as always. Thank you Scott!
Scott – underneath the moire setting there’s a ‘defringe’ slider. Can you post something about when you use this? Thanks!
Great kit shot Scott! We need to update this: http://Shotkit.com/Scott-kelby/ đ
Great if you purchased LT CC but not so great if you purchased LT 6
Phil – it’s in my standalone version of LR 6.4
Thanks for the tip. What ramifications would leaving this uncorrected have on the final image? I’m just looking at the top image on a laptop, so it’s hard for me to really see the moire at all. It’s easily visible on the close-up, of course. Is it more noticeable at different enlargements/quality levels/formats? Thanks!
ps – Sorry, but I don’t care enough to dig around for the accent on the ‘e’.
Hi Sir,
Here’s a complimentary Ă© so you can write moirĂ© right.
Cheers,
(PS: Here’s also an Ă in can you need to write MOIRĂ someday.)
I don’t have a Mac (which is Scott’s world) – but don’t you just hold down the vowel and then pick the accented character from a display that comes up ?
in windows, it’s harder of course (on a US keyboard).