I used the PS gradient tool but finally gave it up for Lightroom's. You are
correct that the PS tool is more flexible, especially as it works across
layers, but I'm lazy, and I quit using polarizers anyway. But then I used the
gradient in LR mostly as a tool to affect light, as in foregrounds and
backgrounds. If I were doing composite work where the PS gradient can be used
to affect opacity of different layers, that would be another story entirely. I
never got that far in my compositing, though, and for the time being it's all
moot. I haven't been in LR or PS in months, and am on the verge of opting out
of my CC subscription.
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errors in spelling, grammar, or logic are figments of your imagination.
> On May 20, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 5/20/2016 6:55 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> If you use Lightroom, there's a devastatingly effective graduated ND filter
>> available that, with a little bit of practice, can transform the way you
>> work. It's much more usable than it first appears when opening it. For
>> example, I have had occasion on a number of shots from top to bottom, then
>> overlaid from bottom to top. You also can go side to side, or at angles.
>> Takes a bit of getting used to,
>
> There is a similar capability in PS, the Gradient Tool. Applied as a mask, it
> provides smooth gradients between a layer and the one below. It is quite
> general purpose, as it can smoothly merge any sort of layers - brightness,
> color, color balance, sharpening, even ghosting of different images in to
> each other.
>
> I imagine it to be more flexible than the LR ND tool, as it is applied as a
> mask, so the resultant mask may then be further adjusted, as may the opacity
> of the layer, and thus overall strength of the effect.
>
> I use it fairly often for various purposes, including balancing exposure
> across an image, including, but not at all limited to, what a GND filter
> would do. (I believe I used it in multiple ways on the Pemaquid lighthouse
> image of yours where I corrected an uneven sky from a pol filter?)
>
> When applied to a brighter or darker layer, whether from a different exposure
> or an adjusted layer from the image being worked on, it becomes a GND filter.
>
> Virtually Filtered Moose
>
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