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This is a discussion on Graduated Neutral Density Filter within the Post Processing Central forums, part of the Photography Information category; The GND Filter is a pretty common tool for landscape photographers. For some reason, when I switched to digital I ...
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Graduated Neutral Density Filter - 08-01-2009, 11:37 PM

The GND Filter is a pretty common tool for landscape photographers. For some reason, when I switched to digital I stopped using my filters. Probably because you can sort of simulate most filters in FotoChop. It turns out that if you are using ACR 5.0 there's a GND Filter there. It works pretty well. Here's a half-a...err... not very good... example of how to use it.

Open the image in ACR. Like this one... yuck...

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Instead of me typing a bunch of nonsense... I'll just link to people that really know what they are doing with the GND Filter.

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Link #2 (this is a PDF file and it includes the adjustment brush too)

Link #3 (really good video on this one)


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08-02-2009, 11:37 AM

Lightroom has a similar tool that I have used to darken skies before. Makes a big difference.

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08-02-2009, 11:51 AM

Yeah... the links I supplied talk about the GND tool for LR too. It's good for a lot of things.

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I've been experimenting with the gradient tool and a layer mask in Photoshop Elements 6.0. It looks promising. Hopefully, I'll get better.
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Wouldn't it be faster to pop a filter on your lens? :D

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Wouldn't it be faster to pop a filter on your lens? :D
No...

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You can't control the filter gradient as easily...

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You can use multiple GND's (see the video I linked to) if you use the tool in ACR

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08-02-2009, 02:47 PM

Foto-Chop.... LOL LOL LOL... thats funny!

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