The Landscape Photography Book

Dealing with Glows

Sometimes, if you do a lot of post-processing, including adding lots of contrast or clarity, you might get a white glow that appears along the edges of things in your landscape—like along the edges of mountains or rocks—and it doesn’t look awesome. That’s why I always fix these glows, because they’re distracting and they signal to other Photoshop users everywhere, “I’ve overcooked this image.” Luckily, hiding those glows (while somewhat tedious) is actually pretty easy, but you have to do this one in Photoshop. Get the Quick Selection tool (W) and paint the area around the glow (so, in this instance, you’d paint over the sky ...