PRE|SETS
Pictorialists put gauze and grease over the lens so a photograph would behave like a painting. The mechanism here is the same, done in the develop panel. Dehaze goes negative, clarity and texture go negative, the blacks lift into a veil, and the highlights are allowed to spread into one another. Veiled Bloom does all of it at once, and the image reads as breathed on.
Veils are the diffusion itself. Muslin Screen eases contrast the way a screen would. Gauze Curtain removes micro-contrast on every control. Breathed Glass opens the shadows until the darkest corner still holds colour. Smoke Garden is the deepest negative dehaze in the folio, and Tender Distance narrows the range from both ends. Fields are for the outside: Hazed Meadow puts the atmosphere back, Powdered Sky turns blue to powder, Faint Willow and Feathered Bough let foliage become a tone and leaf edges dissolve into their branch, Blurred Orchard draws the corners down around a soft centre.
Light is the warmth. Drifting Light and Lantern Mist set a warm top against a cold base, meeting mid-scale and kept quiet. Dusted Halo lifts the highlights rather than protecting them, which is where the bloom comes from. Silken Air warms the whole scale into the upper middle. Diffused Noon was built for light that was too hard. Bloomed Edge is the painterly one, a heavy vignette against a lifted centre.
Apply, and let the edges go. The sharpness is still in the file whenever you want it back.
