Lightroom 2: Graduated Filter Tool – draw the viewer into your photos.

 Lightroom 2: Graduated Filter Tool   draw the viewer into your photos.

One of the great new features in Lightroom 2 is the graduated filter tool. Though simple, It can have a very powerful effect on one's photos, as we'll see. From darkening a washed out sky, to emphasising the billowing clouds of stormy sky, the graduated filter tool in Lightroom 2 is incredibly customizable.


Rather than me tell you about it, I have included an example of the tool in use, and some screenshots of my workflow in Lightroom 2 as I was working on an image of a longtail boat in Thailand.

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