Photoshop Dehaze capability added to Lightroom

Recent news around digital photography has focused on Adobe discontinuing Photoshop Touch for Android and iOS, along with Google’s soon to be available Photos app that brings new digital imaging capabilities to Android. Adobe is looking to take the focus away from what they’ll be discontinuing, and today has made a preview available for a new haze adjustment capability that will first be found in Photoshop Lightroom. This is the version of Photoshop that is focused on the needs of high-volume photographers, such as professional running studios and or enthusiasts that take thousands of pictures and need to corrent and adjust large batches of them.

The haze adjustment feature is known formally as dehaze, although it can also be used to add haze to images. For photos that are taken during morning hours or at locations with high humidity, the dehaze feature removes the haze that covers an entire image, and restores color saturation to objects that may otherwise appear muted in color.

This new Photoshop Lightroom capability is also able to add haze into an image, actually increasing the haze. This can be used to create effects or ambience.

While this capability isn’t yet in the current version of Lightroom, expect to see it in the near future. Similar capabilities will likely also make their way into Photoshop CC in some future release, as a filter or effect. While the obvious use for this will be in landscape or wedding photography, there will also be applications for removing haze in forensic Photoshop work as well. When these new capabilities are released in the next versions of Photoshop, they will be included as part of the training available in the appropriate Photoshop courses, which includes classes on Photoshop CC, as well as earlier versions, and also for Photoshop Lightroom.